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A Ukrainian director’s documentary about Babyn Yar massacre of Jews lands in an unanticipated context

Made prior to the country’s war with Russia, “Babi Yar. Context” explores Ukrainian Holocaust collaboration.

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Ukraine’s Zelensky to world’s Jews: ‘Do not remain silent right now’

Zelensky decried Russia’s attacks on Babyn Yar and Uman, sites of Jewish significance. His office translated the speech into Hebrew.

80 years later, and after several failed projects, Ukraine inaugurates historic memorial to Babyn Yar victims

“The time for memory has come,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish.

The Babyn Yar killing site in Kyiv, Ukraine is made up of dozens of ravines and ditches where the German occupation forces and their allies killed tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews in September 1941. (Courtesy of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.)

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80 years after Babyn Yar Holocaust massacre, a German lawyer seeks trial for last living alleged perpetrator

Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Ya’akov Dov Bleich holds a Torah scroll during the opening ceremony in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 7, 2021 of a synagogue on the site of the Babi Yar 1941 massacre of Jews. (Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center)

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Collapsible synagogue opens on former killing ground of Babyn Yar in Ukraine

Stray dogs roam the Babi Yar monument on March 14, 2016 in Kiev, where Nazis and local collaborators murdered 30,000 Jews in 1941. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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New synagogue will open on Nazi killing grounds of Babyn Yar in Ukraine

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A ‘Holocaust Disneyland’? Historians say a controversial film director wants to turn a Ukrainian museum into one.

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In Eastern Europe, Holocaust museums are missing from key historical sites

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German prosecutors mull trials for 3 alleged Holocaust perpetrators

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Researchers find Jewish headstones at the Nazi killing site of Babi Yar

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