23K views · 32 reactions | The Babi Yar Massacre, which occurred over...

On this day in 1941, the massacre at Babi Yar took place - one of the largest massacres of Jews during the Holocaust. Although many Jews left Kyiv once Operation Barbarossa began in June 1941, there was still a significant Jewish population there in September of that year. Many of the people who stayed behind were those who could not easily leave: women, children, elderly, and the sick. Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the Nazis forced Kyiv’s Jews to leave the city and enter a ravine called

217K views · 2.6K reactions | Le 29 septembre 1941 commençait le massacre de Babi Yar, l'un des pires épisodes de ce qui fut plus tard appelé la "Shoah par balles". Un moment sombre de l'histoire ukrainienne. [⚠️ images sensibles] | France Culture | Facebook

The Babi Yar massacre was one of the largest mass shootings during the Holocaust. Over two days on September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jews were shot and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators in a ravine outside of Kyiv. We need to tell the story of the “Holocaust by bullets.” Learn the facts at www.AboutHolocaust.org | World Jewish Congress

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre in Ukraine. Nearly 34,000 Jews from Kyiv were shot to death on September 29 and 30, 1941, by SS and German police units and their auxiliaries at Babi Yar, a ravine in the northwest of the city. Mirgazim Sabirov was a teenager when he witnessed firsthand the mass execution of the Jewish people. Immediately his family decided to rescue a Jewish family from Babi Yar and hid them in their cellar for the remainder of the occupation of Kiev. |