Posts Tagged: Babi Yar Massacre
‘Get Out of Ukraine, You B*stard’: Holocaust Survivors in Kyiv Send Defiant Message to Putin
Two Jewish women who survived the Nazi Holocaust in Ukraine as children were at the center of a defiant video message sent to Russian President...
Blinken Talks of How Stepfather Took on Soviet Denial of Babi Yar Massacre
i24 News - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a personal story of how his stepfather challenged Holocaust denial by the Soviet Union in...
80 Years Later, Rare Photos Reveal Attempt to Envision Babi Yar Massacre
JNS.org - Eighty years after the Babi Yar massacre, rare images that tell the story of the Soviet-era struggle to commemorate the atrocity have been released for...
80 Years Since Babi Yar: Making Sure the Holocaust Is Not Forgotten
JNS.org - When my father was six months old, my grandparents put him in a burlap sack and smuggled him out of Ukraine as they...
Knesset Presents Award to Last Survivor of Babi Yar Massacre
JNS.org - The Knesset held a commemoration meeting on Sunday to mark 80 years since the Babi Yar massacre, the symbol of what is known...
Documentary on Babi Yar Massacre to Premiere at Cannes Film Festival
JNS.org - Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s documentary film “Babi Yar. Context” has been selected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in July. The 120-minute long...
Yad Vashem Online Exhibit Emphasizes the Power of Family
JNS.org - The world will mark Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Memorial Day—on April 7-8 with particular attention on the 80th anniversary of a campaign against the Jews...
Babi Yar Massacres Remembered in Ukrainian Capital of Kyiv, 79 Years Later
The president of the Ukraine, ministers of his government, the country’s chief rabbi and the head of a top global Jewish organization on Tuesday marked...
Full Transcript of Bernard-Henri Lévy Address at Commemoration of Babi Yar Massacre in Kiev
Below is the full transcript of remarks delivered by Bernard-Henri Lévy, special representative of French President François Hollande, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of...
Babi Yar Monument to Mass Execution of Jews in Ukraine Vandalized
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah this past Wednesday, a monument to one of the largest shooting massacres of Jews during World War II was vandalized...
