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Holocaust graves in Ukraine to be marked

September 7, 2011 13:06

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Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

Memorial stones are to be erected at the sites of mass killings of Jews in the Ukraine during the Holocaust.

The first ceremony, to be held next week at the site of a mass grave in the town of Baryshivka, marks 70 years since Jews were killed by the Nazis in towns around the Ukraine.

In Baryshivka, 90 Jews were shot on November 21 1941, and the community's cemetery was destroyed by the authorities in the 1960s.

The project has been organised by the Lo Tishkach Foundation, with help from the Association of Jewish Communities of Ukraine.

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