Baryshivka, Ukraine – Holocaust Mass Graves to be Marked

Baryshivka, Ukraine – Memorial stones are to be erected at the sites of mass killings of Jews in the Ukraine during the Holocaust.

The first ceremony, to be held next week at the site of a mass grave in the town of Baryshivka, marks 70 years since Jews were killed by the Nazis in towns around the Ukraine.

In Baryshivka, 90 Jews were shot on November 21 1941, and the community’s cemetery was destroyed by the authorities in the 1960s.

Around 900,000 Ukrainian Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, some 60 per cent of its pre-war Jewish population.