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Kyiv chief rabbi, Western diplomats plant trees as part of ceremony at Babi Yar

by  JNS and ILH Staff
Published on  01-28-2021 09:26
Last modified: 01-28-2021 08:29
Kyiv chief rabbi, Western diplomats plant trees as part of ceremony at Babi YarMoshe Shai

The Babi Yar memorial in Ukraine | File photo: Moshe Shai

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Representatives of the Jewish community in Kyiv, Ukraine, led by Rabbi Jonathan Benyamin, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Kyiv, planted seven trees on Wednesday at the Babi Yar memorial in commemoration of the 6 million Jewish lives taken by the Nazis and their collaborators.

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The ceremony, dedicated to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, was attended by Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lyon; head of the department of culture, education and national minorities of the German Embassy in Ukraine Katarina Schaupp-Karmann; Israeli honorary consul to Ukraine Oleg Vishnyakov; vice-chairman of the United States diplomatic mission Joseph Pennington; chairman of the Israel-Ukraine parliamentary committee and people's deputy Alexander Kunitskiy; UN program coordinator in Ukraine Osnat Lubrani; ambassadors of Lithuania, Poland, Morocco and Croatia; as well as other international diplomats and members of the Ukrainian parliament.

The ceremony was held in an abbreviated format due to coronavirus-related restrictions. The event was broadcast on the Facebook pages of the Kyiv Jewish community, the U.N. Mission to Ukraine and the European Union delegation.

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