Seventy-five years ago Thursday the slaughter of 33,771 Jews began in a valley near Nazi-occupied Kiev. The mass executions of men, women and children at Babi Yar took place over a 48-hour period ...
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko wrote that line in a 1961 poem in a reference to to the ravine in the suburbs of Kyiv where, starting on Sept. 29, 1941, and continuing into the following day, over 33 ...
Russian forces on Tuesday damaged Babi Yar, one of Europe's most prominent Holocaust memorials, amid a brutal onslaught of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital. The damage quickly drew international condemnation.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Russian missile attack hit an historic site marking one of the greatest Nazi atrocities of World War II: The museum meant to commemorate a key site of the Holocaust. The bombs ...
In the fall of 1941, Kiev’s Jews were rounded up and taken to Babi Yar, then a ravine on the edge of the Ukrainian city. “These Jews themselves presented themselves voluntarily, believing they were to ...
Sept. 29 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1789, the U.S. War Department organized the country's first standing army -- 700 soldiers who would serve for three years. In 1923, Britain began to govern ...
More than a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started a war that the west has universally condemned, the past has continued to find ways to enter the present. Holocaust ...
A great sadness came upon me after hearing of Pope John Paul II’s recent visit to Kiev, Ukraine. The pope’s trip to was an attempt to bring harmony between Ukrainian Greek Catholics and the Russian ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Monday Russian airstrike that took out the Holocaust memorial site Babi Yar in the capital city of Kyiv in a news conference Tuesday, calling the ...