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German, Israeli presidents mark 80 years since Nazi slaughter of Jews in Ukraine

“The majority of killers were German. We have a few names of Ukrainians, but they played secondary roles for the simple reason that the Germans wanted to steal the Jews’ belongings. A genocide is a killing, but it is also stealing,” said Father Patrick Desbois.

<p>“I grew up with war stories from my grandparents’ generation,” said Andrej Umansky, a German historian with Ukrainian ancestry working for the private initiative, the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. “But students today don’t have the same connection.... To talk about the Holocaust is the same as talking about ancient Rome.”</p>

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and President of Israel Isaac Herzog made a joint statement following the first day of a two-day official visit of the President of Israel to Kyiv. — Ukrinform.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the village of Koriukivka in Ukraine's Chernihiv region on Wednesday to honor the victims of the 1943 Koriukivka massacre, according to an Ukrinform correspondent. — Ukrinform.

Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan is in Kiev attending the official memorial ceremony marking 80 years since the Babi Yar massacre.

Ukraine is marking the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre. Babyn Yar was a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv where the Nazis shot dead nearly 34,000 Jews on September 29 and 30, 1941. Today, an…

Memorial center named after Holocaust's largest mass grave identifies 159 perpetrators; 'It is possible that on this day I shot between around 150 and 250 Jews,' one testified

The opening ceremony of the Ukrainian office of the world's oldest Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) took place in Kyiv on Wednesday, October 6, Vice Chairman of the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) Hernan Felman has said in a statement obtained by Ukrinform. — Ukrinform.

By Margaryta Chornokondratenko KYIV (Reuters) - A group of people walks slowly in silence past a stand-alone thick wall made of coal with large quartz crystals sticking out of it. People pause to touch the crystals and stand close to the 40-meter-long structure, some with eyes closed. The Crystal Wall of Crying , an interactive installation by world-renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, was erected in Ukraines capital to commemorate Jews killed in one of the biggest massacres of the Holo...