Massacre marked

KIEV: The presidents of Germany, Israel and Ukraine on Wednesday marked 80 years since the Nazis slaughtered more than 33,000 Jews in Kiev during one of the worst single massacres of the Holocaust.

On September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 men, women and children, most of them Jews, were killed at the Babi Yar ravine outside Nazioccupied Kiev, the capital of ex-soviet Ukraine.

Babi Yar, which is also called Babyn Yar, was the scene of mass executions until 1943: up to 100,000 people were killed there, including Jews, Roma, and Soviet prisoners of war.