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View of the ravine at Babi Yar.

On September 29-30, 1941 more than 33,000 Jewish residents of Kiev were marched to this site, where they were systematically gunned down over the edge of the ravine by members of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppen C. Babi Yar also served as the execution site for thousands of Gypsies and Soviet POWs in the period between 1941 and 1943. In the summer of 1943, in an attempt to erase evidence of the mass slaughter, units of Sonderkommando 1005 undertook the exhumation and cremation of those killed at Babi Yar. They began their work on August 18 and finished six weeks later on September 19.

 

   

Jews on their way out of the city of Kiev to the Babi Yar ravine pass corpses lying on the street.

This is possibly an image showing the assembly of Jews in Kiev prior to the march out to the ravine at Babi Yar . 

 


Jews on their way out of the city of Kiev to the Babi Yar ravine pass corpses lying on the street.

 


Close-up of a young mother with her two children who have been
assembled for mass execution by the Germans.

 


Jewish women and children who have already surrendered their belongings form a small group as others in the background are ordered to discard their outer clothing and their possessions prior to execution.

 


German police and Ukrainian collaborators in civilian clothes look on as Jewish women are forced to undress before their execution.

 


Naked women (some are holding their infants) waiting in line to be shot near the ravine at Babi Yar.

Portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish child, who was later killed during the mass execution
at Babi Yar.

  

Portrait of three-year-old Anna Glinberg, a Jewish child who was later killed during the mass
execution at Babi Yar.

 


Soldiers in the act of shooting Jewish civilians into a pit.

 


Naked civilians standing atop the ravine at Babi Yar awaiting death at the hand of the firing squads.

 


After a mass execution of Jews in the ravine, a German policeman shoots a Jewish women who remains alive and is trying to stand up .

 


German police look through the clothing of people killed at Babi Yar.

 


The remains of shoes and clothing of people killed in the ravine at Babi Yar.

 

 


A member of an Einsatzgruppe speaks with two women at the top of what is presumably the ravine at Babi Yar.

 


Soviet POWs at forced labor exhuming bodies in what is presumably the ravine at Babi Yar.

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