In Jerusalem, within the walls of the Yad Vashem memorial complex, a commemoration ceremony was held, dedicated to the 77th anniversary of the tragedy that occurred in Babiy Yar and other parts of Ukraine.

In the Tent of Remembrance it was, as always, crowded, writes isrageo. com.

The mourning ceremony was led by the chairman of the All-Israel Union of Ukrainians from Ukraine David Levin.

This is a ceremony in memory of the Jews who died at the hands of German Nazis and accomplices in Babyn Yar, Kamenetz-Podolsk, Bogdanovka, Drobitsky Yar, Kharkov, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Berdichev, Simferopol, Dnepropetrovsk, Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) and other places of Ukraine.

In the Tent of Remembrance, quieted in deep sorrow, sounded violent sounds of the violin. Prelude from the Second Suite by Johann Sebastian Bach was performed by Alexander Shokhat - musician of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

And fled, flying through the arches of the Tabernacle in the Sky, the psalms that Chazan Jonathan Ainovich was reading, and echoing at the end of each of them, the general, uttered with a tear: "Amen" rushed ... To ignite the Eternal Flame, the ghetto prisoner, "Popovtsy" , (located in the Vinnitsa region, Sofia Dinevich, and the Minister for Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Zeev Elkin.

The eternal flame of memory was solemnly ignited, and the words "Itajyaduta" ("Unity") penetrated the soul ... In a mournful silence they laid wreaths on the gravestone, under which the ashes of the exterminated Jews, delivered from the death camps, lie, Zeev Elkin, Gennady Nadolenko, Avner Shalev , guests from Bogdanovka, member of the Council of the Union of World War II veterans Leonid Levitan.

On behalf of the Holocaust Memorial Center, the honor to lay a wreath was given to Ms. Nomi Ben-Ami, the adviser to the Supervisory Board "Babi Yar".

Silently, with the greatest respect, wreaths were borne for the representatives of all the cities of Israel ... And many of those present had tears in their eyes ... And so much sympathy and unspeakable sadness was in their hearts ... The ceremony ended with kaddish and the prayer "El Male rechimim".