Holocaust commemoration: Karin Prien commemorates the Babyn Yar massacre in Kyiv

During her visit to Kyiv, Federal Family Minister Karin Prien (CDU) took part in an event to commemorate the Babyn Yar massacre together with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj. On September 29th and 30th, 1941, near Kyiv, German troops, together with soldiers, police officers and SS men, shot 33,771 of the city's Jewish residents.

"Memory means responsibility - and this responsibility does not go away - never," said Prien in Babyn Yar. She described the murder of tens of thousands of Jews as a “crime at the beginning of the Shoah that is still incomprehensible today.” In the presence of numerous guests, including representatives of Israel and the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, the minister recalled her own Jewish roots: "I, too, lost relatives in the Shoah."