Join us for a virtual lecture by Dr. Martin Dean, Historical Researcher at the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.
This is event is free and open to all, but registration is required. Please follow the link below to register, at which time you will receive an automatic email with the link to join the event via Zoom.
If you have any questions about the film or the event, please email us at gsas.hebrewjudaic@nyu.edu.
Dr. Dean will examine the complex history of the Babyn Yar ravine, where more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were shot by units of the German SS and Police in late September 1941. By following the evidence from the photographs, witness testimonies, and aerial images, Dr. Dean has pieced together the route taken by the Jews into the ravine and identified the site of the mass shootings. With the aid of a 3-D model, a virtual reconstruction of the terrain has been achieved, visualizing the path on which the Jews took their last steps into the Valley of Death.
The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center is planning a permanent memorial complex close to the site that will open in 2026. Dr. Dean’s research is part of a broader effort by the BYHMC to establish the truth about what happened at Babyn Yar and inform the public.
Martin Dean received a PhD in European History from Queens’ College, Cambridge. He has worked as a researcher for the Special Investigations Unit in Sydney, Australia, and as the Senior Historian for the Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit in London.
As a Research Scholar at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, he was a Volume Editor for The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. His publications include Collaboration in the Holocaust (2000) and Robbing the Jews (2008), which won a National Jewish Book Award in 2009. He is based in Washington DC and works as a Historical Researcher for the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center and as an Adjunct Professor teaching courses on Holocaust Studies and World War II at Kean University, New Jersey. His on-going research project is an analysis of the Babyn Yar massacre combining aerial photography, ground photographs, and witness testimony.
