Meylakh Sheykhet in L’viv writes that a scientific commission at the Ukrainian ministry of culture, at a meeting July 25, approved the boundaries of several cemeteries at Babyn Yar (Babi Yar), the ravine in Kiev where the Nazis killed tens of thousands of Jews and others, as determined by research carried out by the American Union of Councils for the Jews in the FSU which he directs, the UCSJ’s staff of professionals and scientists and the “Babyn Yar” Public Committee headed by academic Myroslav Popovich and historian Vitally Nachmanovich..
These cemeteries, Sheykhet informed JHE, include the Babyn Yar mass grave and the adjacent Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Karaite cemeteries.
“Many archival documents, maps were collected from the different archives worldwide,” Sheykhet writes. He added that Rabbi Elokim Schlesinger of the London-based Committee for the Preservation the Jewish Cemeteries in Europe sent Rabbi Moshe Gershaft to check the documentation.
Sheykhet called the move a “step forward on the governmental level” to protect grave sites. He said he hoped that the establishment of the borders of the cemeteries would forestall erecting monuments or buildings or holding commemorations in improper locations atop gravesites.
Plans were announced in June for a new memorial complex at Babyn Yar on a site that Sheykhet says the borders his research established shows is atop gravesites .
PDF of Babyn Yar Map showing borders of cemeteries