“We were gathered here, and sent along ‘the path to death’,” says Raisa Maistrenko, pointing to a Kiev ravine that 75 years ago witnessed one of the worst atrocities of World War II.
Maistrenko was only three when the Nazis helped by local collaborators slaughtered 34,000 Jews – mostly elderly, women and children – between Sept 29-30, 1941, as Hitler’s forces advanced toward Moscow on the eastern front.