Photographs of Kiev (Courtesy: Bronkesh Family). Independence Square, Kiev.

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Photographs of Kiev

(Courtesy: Bronkesh Family)

Independence Square, Kiev

Khreschatyk Blvd which was booby trapped by Nazis.

Dozens campaigning for presidency of Ukraine

Andy Warhol-like campaign

Production farm

Kiev medical school

Babi Yar, where 180,000 Kiev residents including some 34,000 Jews were killed

Pastoral scene? Babi Yar's wooded ravines where on Sept. 29, 1941 Jews dug pits to be their grave

Babi Yar memorial

Children's memorial, Babi Yar

Another Babi Yar monument on the ravine site

Restoration underway

Many beautiful churches in Kiev

Massive government building

Dniepr River

Sholem Aleichem writer

Funicular

Kiev folk art including Barak Obama maruchka dolls

Shirts

Beaded necklaces

Church

Entering Podil, lower Kiev

Podil Synagogue built in 1885 and rebuilt after being partially destroyed in WWII

One of the synagogues in Kiev

Podil synagogue, Kiev

Opera house

The Motherland - titanium giant towers over memorial

Birthplace of Golda Meir