Almost two decades earlier, during his first trip to Ukraine as prime minister, Netanyahu had delivered a memorable speech at the mass grave of
Babi Yar where tens of thousands of Jews were slaughtered after the Germans occupied Ukraine in the Second World War.
Standing at
Babi Yar, but with Iran obviously on his mind, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared it is Israel's "constant duty to stand against murderous ideologies in order to ensure that there will never be another
Babi Yar."
Netanyahu plans to visit the
Babi Yar Memorial, a concentration camp where over 30,000 Ukrainian Jews were killed.
A dozen of his relatives were killed by German forces at
Babi Yar in Ukraine - a ravine where the Germany army massacred more than 100,000 victims.
His "
Babi Yar" in 2003 centered on the 1941 Nazi massacre of Jews in Ukraine, in which several of Brauner's relatives were killed.
At
Babi Yar, a ravine in Kiev, 33,771 Jews were killed in just two days and, ultimately, up to 150,000 Jews, Soviets and Roma died there over the course of the Nazi occupation of Ukraine.
Misha teaches Sonya about
Babi Yar and Israel and how to play Hava Nageela on the guitar.
Rivlin thanked Poroshenko for his support in the fight against antisemitism, as well as for establishing a museum at
Babi Yar, where more than 33,000 Jews were massacred during the Holocaust.
Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel is an adult exploration of the World War II German and Soviet oppression.
"I got the idea one year ago when, much to my horror, I realized I had never heard about the so-called 'small
Babi Yar' in Odessa," Beck said.