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.
