Olena Teliha Commemoration (2005), Kyiv, Ukraine

This meeting commemorates the 99 years from the birthday of Olena Teliha - a talented Ukrainian poetess who was murdered together with hundreds of other Ukrainian patriots by the Germans in 1942. The location is Babyn Yar - a ravine in a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine, and during the occupation by German forces between 1941–1943, up to 120,000 people were massacred on the specific orders of the German high command. The victims were of differing background - Ukrainian nationalists, Jews, gypsies, prisoners of war -