Bakhmut

Bakhmut. Faces of Genocide 1942|2022 is a special exhibition at the Gunpowder Tower in Lviv. I’ve been blogging about that location a few times because their exhibitions are small and fascinating. Its location is great too, a few minutes walk from the city centre.

This exhibition is about the well known city of Bakhmut, well known due to the continue attacks by the russian army. Now the city is gone, there are no buildings standing up. The exhibition shows on one floor what happened in 2022, a timeline of destruction, and on the upper floor the destruction in 1942, made by the Nazis. Fascists vs rushists.

This is the story of a city that has experienced destruction twice: in 1942 and now.
• In 2022-2023, the Russian army wiped the city off the face of the earth and deprived its people of their homes.
• In 1942, the Nazis killed more than 3,000 residents in the alabaster mines, most of them Jews.
Today, Bakhmut remains destroyed and occupied. And this exhibition becomes documentary evidence of two genocides that have one common denominator: the cruelty of totalitarian regimes.

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