Russia, Ukraine and Holocaust memory There is no excuse for downplaying history, even if it’s in the name of an ostensibly noble cause, like supporting Ukraine’s resistance to Moscow’s attempts to wipe it from the map. Ben Cohen Sept. 29, 2023
The dark legacy of Babi Yar We must remember not only the Jews who were slaughtered but the millions of Jews who were never born. Alex Gordon Sept. 27, 2023
Ukrainian Jewish leaders talk of history old and new: Babyn Yar memorial, evacuating refugees Regarding help to those fleeing the country in the wake of a continued Russian onslaught, Kyiv Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich said: “I’m making this very clear that all of the Jewish communities are doing this, and nobody is asking if you’re Jewish or not. The buses leave from the synagogues, but they’re open to anybody that wants to come.” Mike Wagenheim March 18, 2022
Zelensky appeals to world Jewry not to stay silent after bombing of Babi Yar “Nazism is born in silence. So shout about the killing of civilians. Shout about the killing of Ukrainians," March 2, 2022
Russian bombs damage Kyiv’s Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site “It is symbolic that [Russian President Vladimir Putin] starts attacking Kyiv by bombing the site of the Babyn Yar, the biggest of Nazi massacres,” said Natan Sharansky, chair of the advisory board of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center. March 1, 2022
Babi Yar art installations aim to connect visitors with a forgotten past Over the years, a number of attempts were, in fact, made to commemorate the victims—most of whom were Jewish, though thousands of Roma, mental patients, POWs, Soviet prisoners and Ukrainian dissidents were killed there as well by the Nazis. Israel Kasnett Oct. 8, 2021
Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center publishes 159 names of Nazi soldiers who murdered Jews one by one “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. Israel Kasnett Oct. 7, 2021
Herzog at Babi Yar: Leaders must ‘condemn slightest hint of anti-Semitism’ “Let us make no mistake: Holocaust denial is still alive and kicking. Anti-Semitism still exists,” said Israel’s President Isaac Herzog. Oct. 6, 2021
At long last, Babi Yar victims to receive the respect they deserve On the 80th anniversary of the mass genocide the Nazis and their collaborators committed against Ukrainian Jews, a memorial center being built on the site will tell the story of the 1941 atrocity. Israel Kasnett Oct. 6, 2021
