Babyn Yar: Our Common Ground And Our Common Grief – Petrowskaja
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What You Need To Know:
✅ “It’s not only a Jewish place. It’s our common ground and our common grief; “
✅ According to Petrowskaja, the whole landscape of Babi Yar doesn’t exist;
✅ Having chosen to write her book in in German, and not in her native Russian, she says she was trying to tell the story as if it was possible for everybody to identify themselves with this place;
✅ Petrowskaja says that while Ukraine is moving towards remembering, and recognizing their common history, “memory is only a part of creating a democratic society.”
Hromadske’s Josh Kovensky spoke to Katja Petrowskaja, Author ‘Maybe Esther’, via Skype on September 26th, 2016.
