Babi Yar (Russian: Бабий Яр) or Babyn Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин Яр) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.

2010年9月29日 · Babyn Yar in Kyiv was the site of one of the largest mass shootings of Jews in German-occupied Europe. It occurred on September 29–30, 1941. Germans continued to perpetrate mass murders at this killing site until just before …

2025年1月29日 · Babi Yar, large ravine on the northern edge of the city of Kyiv in Ukraine, the site of a mass grave of victims, mostly Jews, whom Nazi German SS squads killed between 1941 and 1943. Soviet accounts after the war speak of 100,000 dead, …

On September 29–30, 1941, in Babyn Yar (also known by the Russian transliteration Babi Yar), a ravine in Kyiv, the Nazis slaughtered more Jews in two days than in any other single German massacre, killing 33,771 Jews.

Nearly 34,000 Jews of the ghetto were brought to a suburban ravine known as Babi Yar, near the Jewish Cemetery, where men, women, and children were systematically machine-gunned in a two-day orgy of execution.

Between 1941 and 1943, the Nazis shot between 70,000 and 100,000 people at Babyn Yar, including almost the entire Jewish population of Kyiv, making it a significant point on the devastating map of the Holocaust.

The collection recorded the tragic history of Babyn Yar – the places of mass shootings of civilians and prisoners of war, which is linked to the Nazi occupation of Kyiv during World War II. The first took place on 29 and 30 September 1941, when nearly 34,000 jews were shot.

The National Historical and Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar,” located in Kyiv, is a unique space of living memory where the tragic pages of history unfold under three totalitarian regimes: Nazi, Soviet, and the ongoing Russian aggression.

Babi Yar (sometimes spelled Babyn Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv where tens of thousands of Jews were shot and killed by Nazi forces in a matter of days in September, 1941. The Babi Yar massacre is considered one of the largest …

The Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center primary mission is to respectfully commemorate the victims of the Babyn Yar tragedy