Dedicated to the victims of the Babi Yar Massacre
On September 29–30, 1941, shortly after the Nazi occupation of Kyiv, more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were forced from their homes and marched to the Babi Yar ravine. Over two days they were systematically executed by gunfire in one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust.
In the months and years that followed, Babi Yar continued to be a site of mass killings. Additional victims included Roma families, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents. By the end of the German occupation, estimates of those murdered at Babi Yar exceeded 100,000.
The massacre at Babi Yar has become one of the most powerful symbols of Nazi crimes in Eastern Europe, remembered not only for its scale but also for the attempt to erase memory of the atrocity. Today it stands as a solemn reminder of the human cost of hatred and the enduring need for remembrance.
