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Ukraine's Babi Yar massacre
The mass killing of Ukrainian Jews by Nazi Germany during World War Two.
During World War Two, Ukraine was occupied by Nazi Germany and on 29th September 1941, the organised massacre of Ukrainian Jews began. In the capital Kyiv, most of the victims were taken to a ravine on the outskirts of the city called Babi Yar, and shot. In 2011, David Stern spoke to Raissa Maistrenko, who escaped the shooting as a three-year-old girl, and to Rabbi Alexander Dukhovny, whose mother survived the Holocaust outside the city.
PHOTO: The memorial at the Babi Yar site near Kyiv (Getty Images)
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