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Mordechai and Sheindle Sova were shot in 1941 on a central street of Kyiv, Ukraine and buried in a ditch after they ignored the order to gather to be murdered at Babyn Yar. (Courtesy of Igor Kulakov and the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.)

Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

A newly established team of historians is digging through disintegrating archives to unearth details about the tens of thousands murdered in a ravine near Kyiv in 1941.

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Michael Oren speaks at Bar-Ilan University in Israel in 2014. (Yoni Reif)

Michael Oren published a book of short stories. He’s more worried about the future of literature than democracy.

The American-born former Israeli ambassador and lawmaker said publishing fiction feels liberating in an era when, as the cliche goes, the truth is often stranger.

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