It is one of the darkest chapters in German history: the 80th anniversary of the massacre of Kiev Jews by German occupation forces.
With prayers and minutes of silence, Ukraine remembered the victims of the massacre of Kiev Jews 80 years ago by German occupation troops.
Leading politicians around President Volodymyr Selenskyj laid flowers in Babyn Yar (Indian gorge) and lit candles on Wednesday. “Two words behind which there are 80 years of shared pain between the Jewish and Ukrainian people – Babyn Yar,” said Zelenskyi. In the evening there was to be another concert and ecumenical prayer for the dead. The events of 1941 were remembered in school lessons across the country.
On September 29 and 30, 1941 alone, German task forces shot almost 34,000 Jewish residents of Kiev. During the entire occupation, more than 100,000 people were murdered in the Babyn Yar gorge, which was then on the outskirts. In today’s Ukraine, around 1.5 million Jews were killed by the Germans and their local helpers between 1941 and 1944.
An official memorial event is planned for Wednesday next week. Then Israeli President Izchak Herzog and Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier are expected. Herzog is also expected to give a speech in the Ukrainian parliament.
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