JTA: Global Jewish News - 12.18.2006

World War II massacre marked

(JTA) — Ukrainian Jews and officials marked the 65th anniversary of a World War II massacre.

Local officials, deputies of the Ukrainian Parliament, Holocaust survivors and Jewish community members gathered Dec. 14 in Kharkov, Ukraine’s second largest city, for a ceremony at the site of Drobitsky Yar, located just outside Kharkov.

From December 1941 to January 1942, Nazis and local collaborators killed 16,000 to 24,000 Jews, Red Army prisoners of war and resistance fighters in Drobitsky Yar.