Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits the Babyn Yar ravine outside of Kyiv to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, where Nazis and their collaborators murdered more than 33,000 Jews in a two-day rampage.
“In this place, tens of thousands of Jews were murdered, as part of the Holocaust of European Jewry in which six million Jews were slaughtered,” says Zelensky. “The world has a duty to remember the promise of ‘Never Again’ and to uphold it. These are not empty words — when antisemitism is spreading across the world, we must ensure that this promise is truly kept. We must act against antisemitism.”
He is joined by Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, head of President’s Office Kyrylo Budanov, and 30 ambassadors from Western countries.
Ukraine’s leading rabbis attend, including Rabbi Meir Stambler, who serves as chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Ukraine, and Rabbi Moshe Azman of Kyiv’s Brodsky Synagogue.
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