Seven months after 34,000 Ukrainian Jews were shot, their bodies dumped into a ravine known as Babyn Yar, a group of 20 people marched to the outskirts of a village southwest of the capital Kyiv. Nazi soldiers ordered them to widen two dug-out silos.
Babyn Yar
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People light candles at Minora memorial in Kyiv on Sept. 29, 2021, on the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre, one of the largest mass slaughters of Jews during World War II.
