Ukraine's prime minister and other government officials attended a memorial service commemorating the mass murder of Kiev's entire Jewish population that occurred during the final days of September, seventy-nine years ago in a ravine near Kiev known as Babi Yar.
Over the next several years, a total of between 100,000 -150,000 people were murdered and buried at the site. Those murdered included not only Jews, but Soviet prisoners and gypsies as well.