On Wednesday, the presidents of Ukraine, Israel, and Germany inaugurated a memorial center for the victims of the Babi Yar massacre in Ukraine eight decades after one of the most infamous Nazi mass slaughters of the Holocaust, AP reports.
“Babi Yar is the biggest mass grave of the Holocaust ... the most quickly filled mass grave,” Natan Sharansky, the chairman of the supervisory board of the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial center, stated.
Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, Isaac Herzog of Israel, and Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany attended a ceremony in Kyiv to commemorate the victims of the massacre.
“It’s hard to breathe at this place — thousands of children took their last breath here,” Zelensky said. “It’s hard to stand here — thousands of bullets knocked people down here in Babi Yar. The earth was trembling from the convulsions of people who were still alive and trying to get out.”
