You're reading: Associated Press: Memorial for Babyn Yar victims inaugurated in Ukraine

Associated Press: Memorial for Babyn Yar victims inaugurated in Ukraine

Published Oct. 7, 2021 at 2:43 am

A man touches an art installation at Babyn Yar on Sept. 29, 2020, during a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the massacre, which killed nearly 34,000 Jews on Sept. 29-30, 1941. This year’s commemorative events that mark the 80th anniversary of the tragedy will be held in Kyiv until Oct. 7.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

The presidents of Ukraine, Israel and Germany on Wednesday inaugurated a memorial center for the victims of the Babyn Yar massacre in Ukraine eight decades after one of the most infamous Nazi mass slaughters of the Holocaust. Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed within 48 hours in Babi Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, when the city was under Nazi occupation in 1941. SS troops carried out the massacre with local collaborators.