82 years ago, nearly 34,000 Jews were massacred outside Kyiv

While the past week has seen much hand-wringing and face-slapping over the embarrassing incident which saw Canada’s parliament applaud a vet who fought for the Nazis, many people may not have realized that the incident had an even deeper resonance because of the timing.This week marks the 82nd anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre — one of the worst shooting massacres of the Holocaust.

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