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Second Holocaust memorial Ukraine reported to have been damaged in Russian attack
Drobitsky Yar was the site of the murder of 11,000 Jews by the Nazis
March 27, 2022 10:46
Drobitsky Yar was the site of the murder of 11,000 Jews by the Nazis
March 27, 2022 10:46A second Holocaust memorial in Ukraine is reported to have been damaged by the Russian assault in the country.
The memorial at Drobitsky Yar on the outskirts of the northeast city of Kharkiv, where at 11,000 Jews were shot and buried in a mass grave in 1942, was hit by artillery.
Earlier this month the site at Babyn Yar, commemorating the massacre of 33,000 Jews in 1941, was struck by a Russian bomb.
Drobitzky Yar on the outskirts of Kharkiv, where 11,000 Jews were shot by Nazis in a ravine in 1942. Shelled by Russians in 2022. pic.twitter.com/cVAK11Iku9
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According to the news agency, Interfax-Ukraine, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. "This Menora in Drobytskyi Yar near Kharkiv never threatened anyone…
“Why Russia keeps attacking Holocaust Memorials in Ukraine? I expect Israel to strongly condemn this barbarism.”
Russian president Vladimir Putin has claimed as one of the justifications for invading Ukraine that he wanted to “denazify the country”.
After the damage to Babyn Yar, former Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky, commented, “Putin seeking to distort and manipulate the Holocaust to justify an illegal invasion of a sovereign democratic country is utterly abhorrent. It's symbolic he starts attacking Kyiv by bombing the site of Babyn Yar."
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I stood at Babyn Yar just a few weeks ago