Despite the claim of the developers of the construction of the memorial site in Babyn Yar, it has not now been possible to determine with certainty the exact location of the bodies of the murdered Jewish victims or their remains.
Kaufman set out to photograph Jewish cemeteries, as well as prewar synagogues, and Jewish residential and communal buildings that had survived destruction by the Nazis in POland and Ukraine for nine years.
A former KGB officer, real-life neo-Nazis, a rabbi and a slaughtered pig are all taking part in DAU, an extreme art experiment which is raising concerns of abuse.
Critics say the appointment of an Israeli, Daniel Blatman, as chief historian of the planned Warsaw Ghetto Museum provides a fig leaf for an attempt to distort history.
We suspect, and not without good ground, that this project is meeting some important political goals of today’s Russia in her real war on Ukraine and in the information war and the distortion of the image of Ukraine that Russia is trying to impose on the whole world.