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Presidents of Israel, Germany, Hungary and European Council to take part in 75th Babyn Yar tragedy anniversary commemoration in Kyiv

By Interfax-Ukraine.
A man sits at the Babiy Yar monument in Kyiv on September 29, 2012 during a rememberance ceremony marking the 71st anniversary of the beginning of mass execution of Jews by the Nazis in September 1941. Some 34,000 Jews were murdered over two days in September 1941 on Babiy Yar, a plazza in Kyiv rendering it a symbol of the Holocaust where Nazis shot more than 100,000 people between 1941 and 1944. (AFP/ Sergei Supinsky)
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The Ukrainian presidential administration has announced the visits by Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, German President Joachim Gauck, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, and Hungarian President Janos Ader to the events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, which will take place in Kyiv on September 29.

This was announced by Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Presidential Administration Kostiantyn Yeliseyev at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

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