On a balmy September evening locals stroll in a leafy park in Kyiv. Parents push prams. Couples kiss. Young men perch on benches with cans of beer and shawarmas. Among the trees and promenaders stand slabs of granite the height of a person. Implanted in each is a peephole, like the lens of a camera. Peer into one of them, and you see a colour photograph taken on this spot 80 years ago: a ravine, scattered clothes, three German officers looking over the edge. This is Babyn Yar.
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A Jewish man touches an installation opened at Babyn Yar on Sept. 29, 2020 during a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the beginning of the mass execution of Jews by the Nazis in September 1941.
