Babi Yar was one of the largest mass execution sites of the Holocaust. In a ravine near Kyiv, Nazi forces murdered tens of thousands of Jewish men, women, and children, along with other persecuted groups. The name Babi Yar stands as a symbol of the immense suffering endured by Jews in Ukraine. #AuschwitzExhibition #NotLongAgoNotFarAway | Auschwitz Exhibition

The Babi Yar Massacre, which occurred over two days in September 1941, remains one of the most horrific examples of mass murder during the Holocaust. In Kyiv, Ukraine, nearly 34,000 Jews, including men, women, and children, were rounded up by Nazi Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) and local Ukrainian collaborators. They were marched to the Babi Yar ravine on the outskirts of the city, where they were forced to undress, herded to the edge of the ravine, and shot in cold blood. Their bodies we

"No monument stands over Babi Yar." From the Poem "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Velvele-Valentin Krayz was just six years old when his father fell in battle defending Kiev, Ukraine. Ultimately the city was conquered by Germany. On 28 September 1941, just days after the conquest of the city, the Jews, including Velvele and his family, were ordered to assemble at the edge of the ravine by the old Jewish cemetery in Kiev. When they arrived, German soldiers and the Ukrainian collaborators forced

March 1, Russian forces damaged buildings at the Babi Yar Memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine, dedicated to the memory of 100,000 Ukrainians murdered at the site during Nazi occupation. Among them were 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children, killed over the course of two days on the eve of Yom Kippur in 1941. In this clip, Lyudmila Tkach recalls surviving the Babi Yar massacre. #ukraine | USC Shoah Foundation

On this day in 1941, the massacre at Babi Yar took place - one of the largest massacres of Jews during the Holocaust. Although many Jews left Kyiv once Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, there was still a significant Jewish population there in September of that year. Many of the people who stayed behind were those who could not easily leave: women, children, elderly, and the sick. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Nazis forced Kyiv’s Jews to leave the city and enter a ravine called