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❗️ Today is the 81st anniversary of the tragedy in #BabiYar. On September 29-30, 1941, Nazi occupiers and collaborationists shot 33'771 people, Kiev’s almost entire Jewish population, in a ravine in the northwest of the city.
▪️ Babi Yar is the most tragic Holocaust location in Ukraine. It is often mentioned alongside Auschwitz and Birkenau. On September 29, 1941, the Jews in Kiev were all gathered in one place, taken to the edge of a ravine and shot, one after another.
▪️ Sonderkommando 4a, part of Einsatzgruppe C, was responsible for the massacre. The commander, Paul Blobel, was convicted at the Nuremberg Trials and then executed. Auxiliary police comprising Ukrainian nationalists also took part in murdering Jews.
▪️ Overall, from 1941 to 1943, over 120,000 people were killed in this place. They were mostly Jews, Roma, Poles and Soviet POWs. The mass executions continued until the Red Army liberated Kiev in November 1943.
❗️ Today is the 81st anniversary of the tragedy in #BabiYar. On September 29-30, 1941, Nazi occupiers and collaborationists shot 33'771 people, Kiev’s almost entire Jewish population, in a ravine in the northwest of the city.
▪️ Babi Yar is the most tragic Holocaust location in Ukraine. It is often mentioned alongside Auschwitz and Birkenau. On September 29, 1941, the Jews in Kiev were all gathered in one place, taken to the edge of a ravine and shot, one after another.
▪️ Sonderkommando 4a, part of Einsatzgruppe C, was responsible for the massacre. The commander, Paul Blobel, was convicted at the Nuremberg Trials and then executed. Auxiliary police comprising Ukrainian nationalists also took part in murdering Jews.
▪️ Overall, from 1941 to 1943, over 120,000 people were killed in this place. They were mostly Jews, Roma, Poles and Soviet POWs. The mass executions continued until the Red Army liberated Kiev in November 1943.