Seventy-four years later, I reached up and broke off a small piece of a branch that was long and gray. It was bent in the strange, contorted ways it had blindly grown to look for light here at the cold bottom of the ravine, where the forest canopy above had turned the sunny spring day into dark winter’s night.
The Daily Signal: Ghosts of Babi Yar – a visit to the ravine where Nazis murdered 150,000
A Jewish man wipes his tears at the Babiy Yar monument in Kyiv on Sept. 30, 2012 during a ceremony marking the 71st anniversary of the beginning of the mass execution of Jews by the Nazis in September 1941.