- Title: Netanyahu and Ukraine's Zelenskiy visit Holocaust memorial
- Date: 19th August 2019
- Summary: KIEV, UKRAINE (AUGUST 19, 2019) (REUTERS) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, AND ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE, SARA NETANYAHU, WALKING BENJAMIN AND SARA NETANYAHU, ZELENSKIY APPROACHING MONUMENT TO VICTIMS OF BABYN YAR MASSACRE BENJAMIN AND SARA NETANYAHU, ZELENSKIY OBSERVING MINUTE OF SILENCE BENJAMIN AND SARA NETANYAHU, ZELENSKIY TOUCHING PLAQUE TO PAY TRIBUTE TO VICTIMS OF BABYN YAR MASSACRE BENJAMIN AND SARA NETANYAHU, ZELENSKIY WALKING AWAY (SOUNDBITE) (Ukrainian) UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT, VOLODYMYR ZELENSKIY, SAYING: "The memory of the victims should serve as a warning that an ideology of intolerance and violence deprives of the most precious and the most valuable thing which is a human life. (PAUSE FOR TRANSLATION) Today, here in the Babyn Yar, we urge the international community to join efforts to prevent any signs of antisemitism and intolerance based on race or nationality." ZELENSKIY LEAVING PODIUM, SHAKING HANDS WITH NETANYAHU MONUMENT (SOUNDBITE) (Hebrew) ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER, BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, SAYING: (ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL TRANSLATION) "Our main goal is to fight in order to prevent the repetition of the Babyn Yar. (PAUSE FOR TRANSLATION) Babyn Yar is an awful tragedy for the humankind. (PAUSE FOR TRANSLATION) We will always defend our lives regardless of anything and anyone." UKRAINIAN AND ISRAELI FLAGS WAVING NETANYAHU SPEAKING AT PODIUM
- Embargoed: 2nd September 2019 17:27
- Keywords: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Nazi Germany visit Jewish people Jews Middle East massacre Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ravine mass killings Kiev
- Location: KIEV, UKRAINE
- City: KIEV, UKRAINE
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA001ASVVT53
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited on Monday (August 19) the site of the Babyn Yar massacre, one of the biggest single massacres of the Holocaust, during his two-day trip to Ukraine.
Accompanied by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and wife Sara Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu commemorated the victims with the minute of silence.
The mass killing, carried out mainly by automatic gunfire between September 29 and 30 in 1941, killed a total of 33,771 Jewish men, women and children.
The Babyn Yar massacre marked the start of Ukraine's Holocaust in which a pre-war Jewish population of about 1.5 million was virtually wiped out to fulfil Adolf Hitler's ambition of a Jew-free Europe.
Earlier on Monday, Netanyahu and Zelenskiy held bilateral talks. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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