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Ukrinform: Ukraine honors Babyn Yar victims

By UkrInform.

Published Sept. 29, 2021 at 9:50 am

People put stones and light candles next to the Menorah monument at Babyn Yar on Jan. 27, 2021, a place where the Nazis shot more than 100,000 Jews between 1941 and 1944, to mark the International Holocaust Victims Remembrance Day in Kyiv on Jan. 27, 2021.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Today, Ukraine marks the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Babyn Yar, one of the most horrific symbols of the Holocaust.

The first massacre of the unarmed civilian population was conducted by the military in Nazi-occupied Kyiv on September 29-30, 1941, Ukrinform reports.