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Shul set to open on Babi Yar memorial site next year

Project believed to be Kiev's first new shul since 1991

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It was the site of the single largest massacre of the Nazis' campaign to wipe out the Jewish people.

Now, decades later, a synagogue is set to open at Babi Yar, a memorial to the killing of nearly 34,000 Jews in September 1941.

Max Yakover, who heads the memorial, told Reuters last week the project “should be a significant thing with a very deep meaning.”

The congregation is expected to open during the 80th anniversary of the massacre next year. It would be the Ukrainian capital’s first new shul since 1991, according to the newswire.

Ukrainain President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the memorial earlier this year to mark the 79th anniversary of the killings. 

“We must not forget the tragedy of #BabynYar, part of history not only of #Ukraine or of the #Jewish people, but a tragedy for the whole world. We must all understand that such horrors cannot happen again today or in the future,” he tweeted in English at the time.

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