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Associated Press: Ukraine marks Babyn Yar massacre’s 75th anniversary

Published Sept. 29, 2016 at 6:54 pm

Birds fly on Sept. 21 above the Menorah Monument dedicated to the 100,000 people, mostly Jews, murdered by occupying Nazi German soldiers at the Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv. Nearly 34,000 Jews were killed in a two-day period alone on Sept. 28-29, 1941.

Photo by Anastasia Vlasova

Ukrainians have marked the 75th anniversary of the Babyn Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II.

Babyn Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital, is where nearly 34,000 Jews were killed within 48 hours in 1941, when the city was under Nazi occupation. The killing was carried out by SS troops along with local collaborators.