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Today is the Day of Remembrance of the victims of Babyn Yar - one of the most terrible symbols of the Holocaust.

Over the course of two days, on September 29-30, 1941, the first mass shooting of unarmed civilians by the military was carried out in Nazi-occupied Kyiv, Ukrinform reports.

In general, from September 29 to October 11, 1941, the SS killed almost the entire Jewish population of the city - more than 50 thousand men, women, and children. Almost 34,000 people were killed in the first two days of shootings alone. On October 1, 2, 8 and 11 - about 17 thousand more people.

The place of mass shootings was chosen to be Babyn Yar, a ravine in the north-west of Kyiv, two and a half kilometers long, which in some places reached a depth of 50 meters. A gate was set up at the end of the street, through which people were allowed to pass in groups of 30-40 people. First, they were forced to undress, their personal belongings were taken, then the police drove the victims with batons to the passages in the embankments at the edge of the ravine. Machine gunners sat on the opposite side. The bodies of the executed rolled down the slope to the bottom. After the ditch was filled with 2-3 layers of bodies, they were sprinkled with earth on top.

In total, during the Second World War, according to various estimates, 100 to 150 thousand people lived in Babyn Yar - Jews, Roma, Karaites, Soviet prisoners of war, participants in the Ukrainian nationalist resistance movement, patients of a psychiatric clinic, and representatives of other national or social groups that the occupiers considered "redundant".

Our ICF "Jewish Hesed "Bnei Azriel" joined the action in memory of those who died in Babyn Yar. Employees, volunteers, wards supported a moment of silence for those who died in those tragic days. We wish that the next worship services will remember the tragedy and so that it never happens again ...

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