...In September of 1941 Kiev, Ukraine, was occupied by German SS troops. All Jews were ordered to gather on the streets with all their belongings…People thought they are going to be relocated…During the next two days SS troops supported by other German units and local collaborators murdered 33,771 Jewish civilians at the Babi Yar ravine… It was the beginning of Hitler’s plan to totally destroy Jewish ethnicity on the USSR terri- tory. During the years of the Great Patriotic War more than 3 million Soviet Jews were killed by Nazis and their collaborators. Holocaust Victims Commemoration and presentation of the Album “Drobitsky Yar”

September 30th, 2012, 1:00 PM The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, IL 60077 To register for the event please call: 847-272-0707 VOLUNTEERS are needed to provide a ride to seniors to and from the event. If you can help, please call at 312-673-2350 or email at [email protected]. We really appreciate your help! IN THE PROGRAM:

 Opening Ceremony - Faina Kravchenko, Editor of Russian Newspaper “REKLAMA” and Maya Gumirov, Coordinator of Family Strengthening Project, Jewish Child and Family Services open Commemoration.  In Memoriam of the Holocaust Victims – Presentation of the Album “Drobitsky Yar “– Faina Kravchenko, Editor of Russian Newspaper “REKLAMA” .  “They will never grow up” in Memoriam of Children perished in the Holocaust – Yakov Zakon, “Evidence of Holocaust” Group Leader and Benjamin Cohen, author of “Will I ever see another butterfly?” The signed copies of the book as well as Holocaust albums will be available for purchase.  To remember - Rabbi Aaron Braun, Northbrook Community Synagogue .  Minute of Silence  “Kadish” - Dramatic poetry and music - Sergey Mezhericher with ORT Institute Sunday School.

Babi Yar Commemoration is a program of Russian Newspaper REKLAMA, Evidence of Holocaust Association, Chicago Connect, the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Educational Center, Jewish Child and Family Services: Holocaust Community Services and Russian Jewish Division of the Jewish Federation.