KYIV, Ukraine—Last week, Ukraine commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Nazi massacre at the Babyn Yar ravine outside of Kyiv.
From September 29, 1941, until September 1943, the Nazis murdered 100,000 people at Babyn Yar, also known as Babi Yar in Russian. Of the dead, more than 50,000 were Jews. The other victims comprised gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Ukrainian nationalists, and ethnic minorities.
Thursday’s commemoration ceremony at the site of the mass grave marked the culmination of a week of events in Ukraine memorializing the anniversary of the Nazi massacre.
The weeklong series of memorials were part of an effort to illuminate …read more
Source: The Daily Signal
