Friday, September 18, 2015

Kiev's Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Is Set Ablaze; Memorial to Kiev's 34K Jews Shot by Nazi Troops

On the first night of Rosh Hashanah in Kiev, Ukraine this week, the brass menorah erected over the slope of the Babi Yar ravine was torched by unknown assailants, the Tablet Magazine website reports today (September 18, 2015). This is another incident of anti-Semitism, which has been plaguing most of Europe during the past year.

It serves as a memorial to Kiev's 34,000 Jews who were shot dead by German Nazi troops over two days in September of 1941, in what was one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust.

The menorah was installed in 1991, one month after Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

On the night of September 13, unidentified assailants threw old tires doused in flammable liquid around the monument before lighting the conflagration. The blaze was so intense that it charred and even melted parts of the menorah's bronze and stone facade.

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