- September 29, 2024
- 4:00 pm
- Ukraine
On September 29, 2024, the Ninth Annual March in Memory of the Victims of Babyn Yar took place in Kyiv. The March participants walked the same route that the Jews were taken to be executed 83 years ago.
During the ceremony, the memorial prayer Kaddish was read at the Menorah. About 300 people took part in the event, including children from Bila Tserkva, Zhitomir and Uman, writes United Jewish Community of Ukraine.
On September 29, 2024, the President of Ukraine honored the memory of the victims of Babyn Yar.
On the 83rd anniversary of the Babi Yar tragedy, President Vladimir Zelensky paid tribute to the victims of mass Nazi executions during the occupation of Kyiv in 1941–1943.
At the ceremony, says the official website of the President of Ukrainein memory of the executed Jews and other victims of the Nazis, which took place on the territory of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babi Yar”, also attended by the head of the Presidential Office Andrei Ermak, the Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications Nikolai Tochitsky, rabbis and ambassadors.
Representatives of Jewish religious organizations read a memorial prayer. Vladimir Zelensky thanked all those present who came to honor the memory of the victims.
“We cannot forget about such terrible times – fascism, Nazism. We must remind everyone of this. We must remember this not only in Ukraine, but also remind everyone outside our state that such terrible times should not return again,” he emphasized.
The head of Ukraine also noted the important contribution of the allied countries and the Jewish people to the victory over Nazism.
During the occupation, the Nazis killed about 100 thousand people at Babi Yar – almost the entire Jewish population of the city. On September 29–30, 1941 alone, they shot more than 30 thousand people in Kyiv: children, women, and the elderly. The road along which local residents were driven to Babi Yar was called the “Road of Death.”
