Seventy-five years ago Thursday the slaughter of 33,771 Jews began in a valley near Nazi-occupied Kiev.
The mass executions of men, women and children at Babi Yar took place over a 48-hour period between September 29-30, 1941.
USA Today: In 48 hours, 33,771 Jews slaughtered at Babi Yar
A Jewish womanlays flowers during the 70th memorial ceremony tribute to victims of the 1941 Nazi massacre of Jews at the Babi Yar ravine in Kiev, on October 3, 2011. The Nazis murdered 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar on September 29 and 30, 1941, in an atrocity that has only been properly commemorated in recent years as the deadliest shooting massacre of the Holocaust. (AFP)
