Babi Yar Memorial This memorial stands at Babi Yar, the ravine then on the city limits of Kiev where the German army (with the assistance of the Ukrainian police) massacred the town's Jewish population in 1941. The German army records note 33,771 Jews shot here in two days. Yevgeny Yevtushenko's famous poem which first brought attention to the massacre in the Soviet Union began 'At Babi Yar there is no monument'. Now there is this one, with tablets in Russian, Ukrainian and Yiddish which state that over 100,000 '...[Read More] Babi Yar Memorial, Babi Yar, City of Kiev, Ukraine
Jewish Memorial at Babi Yar As the 'official' memorial to the Babi Yar massacre set up by the Soviets does not mention the fact that nearly all the victims were Jews, a separate memorial was erected in the 90s when Ukraine had become independent, in the format of a Jewish menorah (candelabra). (Bio by: David Conway) Babi Yar Memorial, Babi Yar, City of Kiev, Ukraine
