Eighty-three years ago, August 27 and 28, 1941 one of the first and worst atrocities of the Holocaust took place in a small “shtetl” (village) in Transcarpathian (southwestern) Ukraine named ...

KIEV, Ukraine -- Weeping survivors clutching red carnations paid tribute Thursday to tens of thousands of Jews massacred by the Nazis 64 years ago at the ravine known as Babi Yar. At a memorial park ...

My father was Jewish, and my mother was Russian. My father’s entire family —my grandmother, grandfather, and his sister— were executed in Babyn Yar. My six-year-old sister and I were miraculously ...

For the third time in recent months, Nazi swastikas were discovered on the Babi Yar memorial monument for Holocaust victims in Kiev. The latest incident was discovered Jan. 30 by employees of the ...

KIEV, Ukraine, June 25 -- Murmuring words of prayer in Latin, Pope John Paul II today paid a solemn visit to the monument at Babi Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of this city where Nazis committed a ...