New monument for victims, to mark the anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre

Sep 30, 2009 at 11:05

Actors portraying Nazi soldiers reenact the escorting of Jews, portrayed by actors, to the Babi Yar for execution, during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. More than 33,700 Jews were rounded up and shot at Babi Yar over 48 hours beginning on Sept. 29, 1941. In the ensuing months, the ravine was filled with an estimated 100,000 bodies, among them those of non-Jewish Kiev residents and Red Army prisoners of the Nazis.