When it comes to the history of the Holocaust, an accurate memory can be a dangerous thing. That’s doubly true in Ukraine. While many associate the Holocaust with German concentration camps like Auschwitz, in Ukraine the killing was more personalized, with 1.5 million Jews being shot en masse and dumped in graves across the country. No site better epitomizes this “Holocaust of bullets” than Babi Yar in Kyiv, where on Sept. 29-30, 1941, over 33,000 Jews were executed and dumped into a ravine.
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Josh Cohen: Ukraine is finally ready to memorialize its Holocaust past
People lay flowers on Sept. 29, 2017 at the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial in Kyiv in honor of the tens of thousands of Jews who were murdered under German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s tyrannical rule during WorldWar II.
