Dozens of people, including some Jews, Ukrainians, and Germans, gathered in the evening on April 13 by the memorial stone on Melnykova Street in Kyiv and followed a so-called “walk of death” — the way by which tens of thousands of Jews were sent by Nazis to Babyn Yar in 1941-1945 and were killed there.
People were waving flags of Israel and Ukraine. They included priests of different confessions and also some descendants of Nazi soldiers, who specially arrived in Kyiv to pay tribute to the perished Jews on the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) ceremonies.
At the sunset they led a solemn ceremony at the Menorah monument in the Babyn Yar area, laying flowers, remembering those killed, and praying the atrocities like that one would never happen again.
Text by Oksana Grytsenko
