Genocide

The Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide 1992 – 1995 was founded in July 2016 as an initiative to sustain the memory of all the victims of the war that lasted from 1992- 1995. The founders of the museum themselves are victims who survived the war. Together with young people they have made the museum a reality and keep it working. The museum exhibit contains a variety of photos and personal items that hold the stories of the war victims. 

The museum explains what happened during the 1992-1995 war, with all its brutality - genocide,concentration camps,mass graves,crimes against children. It displays personal belongings and statements of victims, personal items exhumed from mass graves, photos, testimonies, court evidences, documentaries, etc.

Just across the river from the Kremlin stands one of Moscow’s largest apartment complexes with a dark past. Built between 1928-1931 to accommodate the Soviet elite, it housed hundreds of victims of Stalin’s Great Terror whose tragic fate was immortalized in Yuri Trifonov’s novel “The House on the Embankment.” The author himself lived in the building as a child from 1931-1939 when his own father was executed at the height of Stalin’s purges.

The International Memorial Society is hosting a special exhibit on Shalamov, whose famous collection of stories “Kolyma Tales” remains one of the most powerful literary portrayals of life and death in the Gulag. A poster exhibit on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad explores his life in Moscow and in exile.

The Museum of Genocide Victims was established by the Order dated October 14, 1992 of the Minister of Culture and Education of the Republic of Lithuania and the President of the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees. It is housed in the same building where from the second half of 1940 even until August 1991 the Soviet security services, best known in the world as KGB, operated.

On the southern outskirts of Moscow in the settlement of Butovo lies a memorial complex where Soviet state security (NKVD) executed and buried more than 20,000 people in unmarked mass graves. Between 1937-38, thousands of “enemies of the people,” including labor camp prisoners, former tsarist officers, and members of the clergy, were murdered in this killing field during Stalin’s purges. Today, only a few posters, small monuments, and two Orthodox churches mark the site where so many Soviet citizens perished.

Walking through downtown Moscow, an attentive observer might occasionally notice small silver plaques attached to the entrances of apartment buildings. These memorials are part of the Last Address project commemorating the life and last residence of ordinary people murdered during Stalin’s purges. Inspired by the brass cobblestone project in Germany that pays tribute to Holocaust victims, each plaque contains a person’s name and the dates of his or her birth, arrest, execution, and rehabilitation.

The Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide 1992–1995 holds a rich collection of items and makes use of a multidisciplinary approach in helping visitors research and become more familiar with events that took place during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995.

Formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine, the museum is Ukraine's national museum and a world-class centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The museum was opened on the day of the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor in 2008 and gained the status of a national museum in 2010.