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Rabbi Bleich reciting the Kaddish prayer in memory aloud for the first time at the massacre site.
September 30, 2025, 1:40 pm
More than 1,000 previously unnamed Babyn Yar massacre victims identified
New discoveries on 84th anniversary of massacre near Kyiv made possible through unprecedented archival access and digitisation
By Michelle Rosenberg
Smoke seen rising from the Kyiv district that contains the TV tower and the Babyn Yar memorial after a Russian attack on 1 March, 2022. (Photo: Twitter)
March 23, 2022, 12:35 pm
Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Centre launches investigation into Russian war crimes
Unit created in partnership with French NGO Yahad-In Unum, led by Father Patrick Desbois, who investigated the killing of Ukrainian Jews by Nazis during the Holocaust.
By Jewish News Reporter
2HTF036 Istanbul, Turkey. 28th Feb, 2022. A protester cries during the demonstration against Russian aggression. On the fifth day of the attack of Russian military troops on Ukraine, Ukrainian citizens and anti-war demonstrators gathered in Istanbul to protest against Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: SOPA Images Limited/Alamy Live News
March 3, 2022, 1:24 pm
Labour MP praises World Jewish Relief’s Ukraine fundraising efforts
Christian Wakeford visited the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial just five weeks ago during a European Jewish Association delegation visit to Kyiv
By Lee Harpin
The Babyn Yar ravine was the site of one of the largest massacres of Jews in German-occupied Europe
October 23, 2021, 12:34 pm
Named at last: Mass murderers of Babyn Yar
More than 30,000 Jews were killed in just two days during a Nazi massacre at Babyn Yar in 1941. Now, 80 years later, a list reveals the names of those responsible
By Michael Havis
Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich
October 10, 2021, 12:51 pm
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine: ‘Babyn Yar was lost to history for 50 years’
Yaakov Dov Bleich, chief rabbi of Ukraine and Kyiv, says the memorial to thousands murdered 'brings an issue that has been lying dormant for 80 years to the forefront'
By Stephen Oryszczuk
A visitor to the installation Crystal Wall of Crying, in memory of the massacre at Babyn Yar
October 10, 2021, 12:46 pm
Babyn Yar 80th anniversary: ‘New memorial is a place of peace’
With presidential backing, Ukraine has held two weeks of events including exhibitions, an academic conference and documentary film premieres to mark the massacre
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Volodymur Zelenskiy at the Babyn Yar memorial on Wednesday
September 29, 2021, 4:23 pm
Ukraine’s president marks Babyn Yar anniversary with tribute to ‘crippled fates’
Volodymyr Zelenskiy laid a wreath to mark 80 years since a mass shooting that killed nearly 34,000 Jews
By Michael Daventry and Reuters
Babyn Yar Symbolic Synagogue
April 7, 2021, 11:42 am
Symbolic Babyn Yar shul to open this week
Synagogue at the site of the Shoah massacre near Kyiv will be inaugurated to mark Yom HaShoah, in a ceremony attended by religious and political leaders from Israel and Ukraine
By Stephen Oryszczuk
The Babi Yar ravine
November 17, 2020, 11:02 am
New synagogue will open on Nazi killing grounds of Babyn Yar in Ukraine
Shul will open next year ahead of the 80th anniversary of the mass killings that were perpetrated against Kyiv's Jewish community
By JTA
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