Maksym Rokhmaniko

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The Lawfare Podcast · Lawfare Archive: Memorializing Babyn Yar after the Russian Invasion of Ukraine · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

I have to say that for me personally, it was something a bit more like a project because, you know, we were involved so much into this endeavor to memorialize Babyn Yar, which is something that arguably has not been properly done even before this war started.

So we worked on the commission of Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center,

which is again this endeavor along with groups of historians and other endeavors to memorialize this site.

And our work particularly was directed towards spatial awareness of how exactly this place looked before.

Before our work, there were many theories about where the mass shooting took place.

There were controversies.

One of the major historians of this event kind of had an alternative theory of where this place was.

So we basically did...

reconstruction of the territory in order to understand where exactly these mass shootings happened and to better understand this place.

Yeah, that's a great question.

We were basically commissioned by BYHMC, Babiniar Health Force Memorial Center, to 3D model the terrain of Babiniar first in this very kind of simple, almost technical operation, where you have very old topographic maps from the beginning of the century.

And by digitizing them and by doing certain manipulations to them, you would get a 3D terrain.

And since that small commission, every step of our work added new dimension to this model.

So first we just had a 3D dimension, the model of the site as it was in 1924.

Then we added a bit more details to see how this terrain was changing.

Then we started to find photographs from this place and searching for these distinguishing elements of the terrain that we could pinpoint on photographs.

And that really helped us to understand this terrain better and understand where these events took place.

We also worked with aerial images, which reveal a lot about this territory, how it was used.

Then we also did this kind of extra layer of research where we collected all witness testimonies about Babanyar and we processed them in a way where

we basically were able to spot locations in what people mentioned and to connect them to specific key spots, such that if you would, let's say, look up an undressing spot, you would hear all of the story of all the witnesses about what exactly happened at this location.

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