In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Leadership, Ethics and Practice Initiative, the Rabin Chair Forum, the Kennan Institute, the Embassy of Israel, the Judaic Studies Program, and the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies present:

"The Road to Babi Yar"

Film Screening and Discussion
With the invasion by the German Wehrmacht into the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage of the Holocaust began—mass execution by bullets. The documentary film “The Road to Babi Yar” (Israel, 2018) presents events of the first 100 days of the occupation of Soviet Ukraine, as well as the evolution of the mass murder system at hundreds of killing sites symbolized by Babi Yar. Conversations with historians such as Timothy Snyder, eyewitnesses, and Jewish survivors help recreate a comprehensive picture of the fate of the 1.5 million Jews of Ukraine who were murdered in the Shoah.
This film will be subtitled in English.

Speakers:
  • Boris Maftsir, Israeli documentary filmmaker,
  • Walter Reich, Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Professor of International Affairs, Ethics and Human Behavior, and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at George Washington University

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
3:30-6:00pm

Lindner Family Commons, Room 602
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St NW
This event is on the record and open to the media.
The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW / Suite 412 / Washington, DC 20052
Tel (202) 994-6340 / Fax (202) 994-5436 / Email  ieresgwu@gwu.edu