The President of Ukraine honored the memory of the victims of Babyny Yar

On September 29, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi commemorated the victims of mass Nazi executions during the occupation of Kyiv in 1941-1943. According to the presidential website, Ukrainian high-ranking officials, rabbis and ambassadors also took part in the commemoration ceremony for the executed Jews and other victims of the Nazis, which took place on the territory of the Babyn Yar National Historical and Memorial Reserve.

“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.

During the occupation, the Nazis killed about 100,000 people in Babi Yar – almost the entire Jewish population of the Ukrainian capital. Only during September 29-30, 1941, they shot more than 30 thousand Kyivans – children, women, and elderly people. The road on which local residents were driven to Babyny Yar was called the “Road of Death”.