Babyn Yar

[bah-bin yahr, bah-byin yahr]

1. a ravine near Kyiv, Ukraine: site of German massacre of Jews in World War II.

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Nazi forces shot dead nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children on Sept. 29-30, 1941 at Babyn Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv, after occupying the Ukrainian capital - which was then part of the Soviet Union - during World War Two.

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Over the next two years, many more people were killed at Babyn Yar.

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"The memory of Babyn Yar and the slogan 'Never again' are the moral basis of humanism and opposition to any forms of aggressive-chauvinistic ideologies, in particular, Russian aggression against Ukraine," it said in a statement.

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On Sept. 29, the Babyn Yar massacre took place.

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Russian shells struck close to the Babyn Yar memorial in March of 2022.

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