Olena Teliha Commemoration (2005), Kyiv, Ukraine
Channel: friendofpotkoorok
Date: 01/08/2014

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 - all victims of the German occupation.

The commemorative meeting included artists including singers, bandurists (Taras Sylenko) and patriotic officials. This meeting was one of the driving forces that convinced the Ukrainian Government to officially commemorate the centenary of Olena Teliha's birth in 2006.

Amateur film by Peter Kravchenko (Australia).

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Відзначення 99-річчя від дня народження Олени Теліги - Бабин Яр, 2005 р.

Виступають Павло Дорожинський, Анатолій Левченко та інші.

Кінозапис: Петро Кравченко (Австралія)