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At the end of February 2024, Russian -speaking resources distributed information about the scandalous trend allegedly seen by the visitors of the most famous Israeli Museum. We checked whether this message corresponds to reality.
According to news, Israeli blogger Margarita Levin found outthat over the past two years, from the Memorial Complex of the Holocaust Holocaust “Yad Vashem” in Jerusalem, photographs in which Ukrainian nationalists together with the Nazis destroy Jews in Ukraine, in particular in Babi Yar, have been mysterious. Also, the most references and documents on the direct participation of Ukrainians in the mass murder of almost 1.5 million Jews living in Ukraine disappeared from the exposition. In this, commentators see a connection with the support of the Western and pro -Western countries of Ukraine in the war with Russia.
Famous Russian journalists wrote about this Oleg Lurie And Vladimir Solovyov, publicist Mikhail Khazin, Director of the Press and Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova, State Duma deputy from the United Russia party Oleg Matveychev, portals "Russia and compatriots","Russian world" AFTERSHOCKas well as a number of popular Telegram channels.
During the Second World War, the territory of modern Ukraine occupied by the troops of the Third Reich became one of the main regions where the Holocaust was committed - the persecution and mass destruction of the Jews by the Nazis and their accomplices as part of the policy of the final solution of the Jewish issue. According to some estimatesAbout 1.5 million Jews became victims of the Holocaust here. About 150,000 of them in 1941-1943 were shot in the tract Babi Yar Under Kyiv. The destruction of Ukrainian Jews was carried out mainly by Ainzatzgruppes (special operational groups of German law enforcement agencies) with the participation of other divisions of the Wehrmacht and the Ukrainian police, including those formed from local residents. An important role in the persecution of Jews was played by Ukrainian nationalist organizations.
The basis for the plot Video Margarita Levin was the story of an Israeli citizen Vitaly Freeman. According to him, at the end of September 2023, he, together with guests from Germany, visited the memorial complex of the history of the Holocaust located in Jerusalem "Poison of yours". Going to that part of the exposition that is dedicated to the Holocaust in Ukraine, Freeman noted that the exhibition already familiar to him was half empty - there were only the least shocking photos. In particular, a black and white picture allegedly disappeared (Freeman sent a copy of Margarita Levin), on which, near the bodies of executed people, you can see a standing Ukrainian policeman with a bandage on his hand-in real life blue-yellow, as the blogger interlocutor is convinced. All this, according to Freeman, testifies to the lobbying of Israel of the interests of Ukraine to the detriment of his own, the rewriting of history for the sake of the Kyiv regime.
Memorial complex of the history of the Holocaust "Poison of yours"Is located in the territory of 18 hectares and contains a colossal number of documents on the history of the pursuit of Jews in 1933-1945. On the official website of the institution, individual pages are devoted to Ukraine, activity Organizations of Ukrainian nationalists (OUN), tragedy in Babi Yar, Stepan Bandera, some evidence of activity are also given Bandera. IN Online collection The site as of 2024 can be found with almost 500 documents related to the activities of Ukrainian collaborators. This already question the theory of a certain new biased politics of the museum. As for the above photography, “verified” did not find her traces on the site.
When the news reached the Israeli segment of social networks, it reacted to it in the most memorial complex “Yad Vashem”. “We saw this strange publication, and I tell you with complete confidence: there were no changes in the exposition of the Museum of the Holocaust History, supposedly aimed at“ removing ”photographs or documents indicating the murder of Jews with Ukrainians during the Holocaust,” - declared In response to the request for Newsru.co.il, a press secretary of the Complex of Simi Allen.
More detailed comment in Facebook He gave an Israeli historian, author of books and publications about the Second World War, an employee of “Yad Vashem” with 30 years of experience of Aron Schneer. According to him, the photograph given by Vitaly Freeman has never exhibited at the museum. At the same time, not a single picture from the exposition of the complex, telling about the Holocaust in the territory of the former USSR, has disappeared. Photos about the executions and pogroms of Jews in Lithuania, Latvia, a large number of photographic materials are devoted to tragedies at different points of Ukraine - in particular, German soldiers are captured on the giant frame, riveting in the clothes of those killed after the execution. Under the photos, as Schner assures, you can see text documents on the same topic, and in another room there are pictures of Ukrainian collaborators. Schneer provided his testimonies with his own pictures from the museum.
The photograph presented by Vitaly Freeman called Fake, but in a personal conversation with “verified” he clarified that he did not mean her authenticity - only the fact of being in the “venom” exposition. In fact, this photo is posted on many network resources - in particular, on Ukrainian -language site Institute for the Development of Civil Society named after Golda Meir. Shots taken from the same point with a difference of a few moments with the desired photograph are also widespread.
It is most often specified that Babi Yar became the place of shooting of these personnel, and as source Photos specified Russian State Archive of Film Photo -Documents (RSECFD). However, apparently, one mistake gave rise to the chain of the rest. On site The RSECFD cannot be found, but the frames can be seen at the very end of the Belarusian-German feature film "Babi Yar" removed In 2003.
“Verified” contacted the author of the sensational interview with Vitaly Freeman and asked to submit confirmation that the indicated photo was previously exhibited in “Yad Vashem”, if any. Freeman replied that the only certificate was his own memory, as well as the memory of his relatives from Germany who visited the memorial with him in 2018. Since then, Freeman has not been in the museum, so it cannot be sure exactly when the photograph disappeared from the museum-after the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022 or in the previous four years.
“Verified” also decided to check the statement that “the Ukrainian flag is clearly read on the bandage.” To do this, two frames from the black and white film were processed in four network services offering coloring using neuralorizer, IMG2go, Palette, HotPot). With fairly realistic final colors, in any of the pictures, the bandage did not turn into blue-yellow.
The reverse operation also “tested”-transformed the color image of the Ukrainian flag into black and white. The result is not at all reminiscent of what we see on the bandage.
In other words, even in theory there was no reason to delete the above fake photograph due to the dressing supposedly in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. At the same time, in an interview with “verified”, Aron Schneer did not rule out that in Babi Yar, Ukrainian police officers could theoretically wear such dressings (regardless of the content of photography), as well as collaborators in the Baltic countries.
Thus, there is no reason to talk about the removal of the “poison of yours” from the exposition and other documents testifying to the participation of Ukrainian nationalists in the executions of the peaceful Jewish population. The fact that in May 2022, already in the midst of a full -scale war in Ukraine, representatives of the complex, is evidenced about the invariability of the position of “poison of yours” in this matter. criticized The Ukrainian authorities for intention in the framework of the de -orching of geographical names assign a number of streets the names of the figures of the Ukrainian rebel army and the OUN. The photograph, which was used as the main argument in favor of the conspiracy, is a frame from a feature film.
It is possible that the reason for the emergence of such a version was a false memory. It is worth noting that Vitaly Freeman is a not quite ordinary Israeli citizen, he is actively involved in anti -Ukrainian propaganda, for which he was included in the list on an unofficial site "Peacemaker".
Addition from 02.29.24: Information about the origin of the sensational picture was added to the text.
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