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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.

By Cnaan Liphshiz September 25, 2020 3:23 pm

Red swastikas daubed on Sholem Aleichem statue in Ukraine

The incident in Kyiv follows the publication of a poll suggesting that anti-Semitic sentiment has spread in the country.

November 25, 2019 4:57 am

2 streets in Kiev will no longer be named for Nazi collaborators

The Ukrainian’s city’s mayor said he would appeal the court’s ruling.

June 27, 2019 5:59 am

Menorah in Kiev vandalized with ‘blood,’ swastika

December 18, 2017 8:25 am

Kiev’s American-style JCC gives low-income Jews the millionaire treatment

By Cnaan Liphshiz October 30, 2017 4:34 pm

Israeli man shot dead near synagogue in Kiev

August 24, 2017 2:55 pm

Ukrainian marchers in Kiev chant ‘Jews out’

January 3, 2017 11:24 am

Fires, rowdiness by Jewish pilgrims reported in Ukraine on Rosh Hashanah

October 7, 2016 10:41 am

Kiev Holocaust memorial defaced again with swastikas

June 28, 2015 1:18 pm

Kiev Jews get $100K from European Jewish Congress for security needs

April 27, 2015 6:36 am

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