The Memorial «Babiy Yar»
What is special? Babiy Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union. The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation. The decision to kill all the Jews in Kiev was made by the military governor, Friedrich-Georg Eberhardt Major-General, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch. It was carried out by combined forces of SS, SD and SiPo. Contrary to popular perception Jews were not the largest group of those killed, as a substantial amount of later victims also included thousands of Soviet POW's, communists, Gypsies, Ukrainian nationalists and other civilians. |  |
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