Posted on 02/12/2022 9:08:09 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
After encircling the Soviet Red Army in late September 1941, Nazi forces captured Kyiv and promptly posted notices ordering Jews to gather near a place known as “Grandmother’s Ravine,” or “Babyn Yar” in local parlance. Days later, locals watched long columns of people shuffle past. On Sept. 29 and 30, SS-led forces gunned down nearly 34,000 Jews — not including children, who were often buried alive as Nazi policy forbade wasting bullets on them — and dumped them into the ravine. By the end of the war, some 100,000 dead, including thousands of Ukrainians and Roma, lay in the mass grave at Babyn Yar.
“Any normal human being will have strong feelings on a day like this,” 82-year-old Gennady, a retired engineer, told a journalist on the vast, park-like grounds of the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial on the 80th anniversary of World War II’s deadliest massacre.
Moments earlier, on a broad path leading to the main Soviet monument to the massacre, Orthodox priests in white robes lit candles and called for a minute of silence. Dozens of elderly Ukrainians, many holding a single, long-stemmed red rose, then clambered up concrete steps to the massive sculpture as a loudspeaker broke the stillness of the crisp, clear morning with an old Soviet tune about Nazi murderers.
“Here, where they killed so many innocents,” Gennady added, “how can you not be sad about it, and feel anger toward those who killed them?”
That sadness and anger may be the driving force behind plans to vastly expand the Babyn Yar memorial and a series of other Ukrainian initiatives that appear to finally lay out the welcome mat for the country’s Jews...
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If they’re smart they’d leave.
Ukrainian Jews have been at the forefront in opposing Russian aggression.
They wouldn’t be patriots if the first impulse was just to leave.
Which Ukrainians have been at the forefront in opposing American aggression?
The official Jewish community in Ukraine is what, 6000?
The number of Jews who qualify under Israel’s Law of Return might be 75,000.
Irrelevant outside of to Israel.
Quick question, how many countries in the world currently have a Jewish president?
How many Jews bound for Israel end up in the U.S?
Gotta admit we can use them.
I went there. Death hangs over that place like a heavy cloud. It has that unique air of unspeakable evil.
I haven't seen any stupid enough to interpret a massive Russian military buildup, threats of nuclear war from the Russians, and constant anti-Ukrainian propaganda from the Russians, as examples of "American aggression".
Thanks for your reflection. How sobering.
A few. Many only nominally Jewish. The most interesting in some ways, Leon Blum, Prime Minister of France in 1936-7, again for a month in 1938, and after spending the war years in Buchenwald, in 1946 for a month.
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