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May. 10, 2021
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s first Jewish president, is set to attend a formal ceremony opening a synagogue at Babi Yar, the site of the massacre of over 33,000 Jews over a two-day period in September 1941.
The synagogue, which was unofficially unveiled during a ceremony featuring Chief Rabbi Yaakov Bleich last month, is part of a larger complex being built by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, which is slated to include a research center and museum. Built in the shape of an open book and open to the elements, it stands behind a previous monument in the shape of a menorah.
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