Eighty years ago, a ravine in the north of what is now Ukraine’s capital city turned into a bloodbath as Nazis, aided by local collaborators, shot tens of thousands of Jews to death.
Babyn Yar
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People lay flowers at the monument for the citizens executed by the Nazis in Babyn Yar on Sept. 29, 2021 in Kyiv, to mark the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre, one of the largest mass slaughters of Jews during World War II. On September 29-30, 1941 more than 33,000 men, women and children were murdered at the Babyn Yar ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv in one of the largest single mass killings of the Holocaust. The ravine is also called Babyn Yar.
