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Ukraine marking 75th anniversary of Babyn Yar tragedy
29.09.2016 14:07 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of Sept 2930, 1941, the Nazis executed nearly 34,000 Jews at the Babyn Yar in Kyiv, occupied by the Third Reich, UNIAN reports.
Reportedly, within 1946, the Nuremberg trial provided estimates of about 100,000 people killed at the Babyn Yar.
It is to be admitted, within 19411943, 621 members of the OUN [Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists] were shot at the Babyn Yar, including Ukrainian poetess Olena Teliga with her husband.
In meanwhile, as of Sept 29, at 19:00, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko will attend the vigil commemorating the victims of the Babyn Yar, which will be held in the National Historical Memorial Reserve «Babyn Yar».
It is to be reminded, earlier, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier stressed that the Babyn Yar was a symbol of the suffering, injustice, and barbarism, which National Socialism brought to Europe.
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