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Babi Yar survivor

moved back to Denver just under two years ago, I’m still having firsts. One was this past Sunday, when I attended Mizel Museum’s annual remembrance ceremony of the massacre of Kiev’s Jews in 1941. The ceremony took place at Babi Yar Memorial Park, an unlikely oasis tucked behind the busy arterials of Parker and Havana. There were echoes in keynote speaker Prof. Jonathan Adelman’s words of observations made by JEWISHcolorado’s Doug Seser- man during a trip we took to Dachau, Germany last year under the auspices of the museum. In Munich’s newly opened Documentation Center, where the origins and rise of Nazism are meticulously presented, he intuited the same lesson imparted by Adelman: We must pay attention to what genocidal leaders say. If Iran threatens Israel’s […]
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