NCSEJ logo


 
PRESS RELEASE

 
Contact: Mark B. Levin/NCSEJ
202.898.2500
 

Ukraine President Appoints NCSEJ Executive to Babi Yar Remembrance Committee
  
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 9, 2015 - On Thursday, November 5, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the appointment of Mark B. Levin, Executive Director of the National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry (NCSEJ), to the Organizing Committee for the 75th Anniversary of the Babi Yar Tragedy.

The massacres at Babi Yar, at a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv, were among the most horrific actions of the Nazis during World War II. After capturing the city in 1941, on September 29th and 30th, the Nazis murdered over 33,000 Jews, in one of the largest single mass killings of the war.

To mark the 75th anniversary of the 1941 massacre, President Poroshenko has appointed a prestigious international committee to plan events to mark the anniversary.

"I'm very proud of our executive director, Mark Levin, becoming part of an event that's so important and meaningful to the Jewish community," said NCSEJ Chairman Stephen Greenberg.

NCSEJ, founded in 1971, advocates on behalf of Jewish communities in twenty-five countries of Eurasia and in the United States. NCSEJ is the successor organization to the National Coalition on Soviet Jewry, which played a leading role in the Free Soviet Jewry movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

###


About NCSEJ National Coalition Supporting Eurasian Jewry

Founded in 1971, NCSEJ represents the organized American Jewish community in monitoring and advocating on behalf of the estimated 1.5 million Jews in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, including the 15 successor states of the former Soviet Union.

Web  www.ncsej.org

Email  [email protected]

Telephone  202.898.2500

NCSEJ is a beneficiary of  The Jewish Federations of North America and the National Federation/Agency Alliance through its network of Federations.
Join Our Mailing List