Ukraine commemorates big Nazi massacre of Jews
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Ukraine this week marks the anniversary of   one of World War Two's most notorious wartime massacres,   reflecting on a key stage in Nazi Germany's plan to kill off   European Jewry and on persisting anti-Semitism at home.
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Ukraine approves a giant steel cover over the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl.
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Tsezar Kats thought it was a Soviet parade as he marched with Jews out to Ukraine's Babi Yar ravine in 1941, but the absence of balloons and red Soviet flags puzzled the 4-year-old.     Then he saw the piles of ...Comment
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"Let remembrance of this serve as a shield that will protect us and generations to come against resentment, hate, aggression, racism and anti-Semitism"  In a ceremony near the rubble of the gas chambers, a representative of Polish President Lech Kaczynski said the world should remember those who saved the lives of others during the six years of World War II, ... via Ynetnews
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A huge geopolitical battle is being fought in Ukraine. Nouvel Observateur, Paris.
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OSWIECIM, Poland  - World leaders and survivors  stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust on Thursday at  a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th  anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
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PRAGUE, Dec 13 (IPS) - Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has been  spearheading the country's efforts to see the world  recognise Ukraine's 1932-1933 famine as an "act of  genocide against the Ukrainian people." Russia begs to  disagree.
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Bells gently tolled as Ukrainian and foreign dignitaries on Wednesday commemorated the 65th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine, placing flower-encircled candles at the foot of a giant monument to the tens of thousands of victims.
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Supporters of Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko look up at the stage during a mass rally in Kiev, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004.
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Ceremonies to mark the 150th anniversary of the Crimean War get under way in Ukraine.
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Poland is holding a series of solemn ceremonies and re-enactments marking the 25th anniversary of the deadly nationwide crackdown by communist-era authorities.Comment
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WARSAW, Poland  - Poland's prime minister marked the 65th anniversary of the start of the Second World War on Wednesday, unveiling a new memorial on the spot where a German warship fired the opening shots at a Polish munitions depot, sparking nearly six years of bloody conflict.
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SREBRENICA, Bosnia  - Families of victims of the Srebrenica massacre buried 465 more victims on Wednesday, at an annual ceremony that has become the main event of their lives since the 1995 atrocity by Bosnian Serb forces.
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Holocaust survivors and their families gathered at one of Europe&#39;s largest Jewish cemeteries Sunday to remember more than 200,000 Jews from this city killed by the Nazis
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A mass grave holding the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis has been found in southern Ukraine near the site of what was once a concentration camp, a Jewish community representative said Tuesday.
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A military parade in Kiev marks the 60th anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from Nazi occupation.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma on Wednesday congratulated the veterans and compatriots on the 60th anniversary of Ukraine's liberation from fascist occupiers that is going to be marked on October 28.