“On the 83rd anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi commemorated the victims of mass Nazi executions during the occupation of Kyiv in 1941–1943.”, — write: www.president.gov.ua
On the 83rd anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi commemorated the victims of mass Nazi executions during the occupation of Kyiv in 1941–1943.
Head of the Office of the President Andriy Yermak, Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications Mykola Tochytskyi, rabbis and ambassadors also took part in the ceremony commemorating the executed Jews and other victims of the Nazis, which took place on the territory of the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve.
Representatives of Jewish religious organizations read a memorial prayer. Volodymyr Zelensky thanked all those present who honored the memory of the dead.
“We cannot forget such terrible times – fascism, Nazism. We have to remind everyone about this. To remember not only in Ukraine, but also to remind everyone who is outside the borders of our country that such terrible times cannot return again,” he emphasized.
The head of state also noted the significant contribution of the allied countries and the Jewish people to the victory over Nazism.
During the occupation, the Nazis killed about 100,000 people in Babi Yar – almost the entire Jewish population of the city. Only during September 29-30, 1941, they shot more than 30 thousand people in Kyiv: children, women, elderly people. The road on which local residents were driven to Babyny Yar was called the “Road of Death”.
