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Editor's note:
After a Russian missile strike in the vicinity of the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a tweet, “To the world: What is the point of saying ‘never again’ for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babyn Yar? At least 5 killed. History repeating …”
The site carries the weight of a tragic past: In 1941, Nazi forces and their Ukrainian collaborators massacred over 33,000 Jews in the ravines of Babi Yar. Many more were murdered over the next two years, including Romani people, psychiatric patients, prisoners of war and other civilians.
Holocaust historian Jeffrey Veidlinger notes that the site symbolizes the silence of Jewish victimhood in Ukraine, which Zelenksyy likely referenced in his tweet while appealing for action with his warning, “Nazism is born in silence.”
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