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Babyn Yar

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[bah-bin yahr, bah-byin yahr] / ˈbɑ bɪn ˈjɑr, ˈbɑ bjɪn ˈjɑr /
  1. a ravine near Kyiv, Ukraine: site of German massacre of Jews in World War II.


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Mr. Zelensky, who is Jewish, noted that a Russian missile this week killed five civilians on the territory of a Holocaust memorial site in Kyiv, Babyn Yar.

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2022

The wall is one of several new installations in a memorial project for Babyn Yar.

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2021

And Fridman and Khan have personal reasons behind the project: Both are Jewish, born in Ukraine when it was a Soviet republic, and had family members killed at Babyn Yar and elsewhere in the Holocaust.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021

The suggestion was leaked to the media and unleashed accusations that Khrzhanovsky aimed to create an “entertainment complex” at Babyn Yar.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021

Ukrainian officials have opened a synagogue at Babyn Yar near Kyiv - a place where the Nazis murdered nearly 34,000 Jews in World War Two.

From BBC • May 14, 2021

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