First victims of Babyn Yar

Kyiv, September 1941. The Nazis are in charge of the city. Everyone froze in anticipation of the unknown. On September 28, announcements appeared ordering Jews to come to a gathering point near Babyn Yar the next day with documents and valuables. Failure to do so would result in execution. … In the first two days at Babyn Yar alone, the Nazis shot more than 33,000 Kyiv Jews. The death conveyor worked until November 1943. About 100,000 people found their final resting place here: Jews, Roma, the mentally ill, prisoners of war, Ukrainian nationalists, and Soviet underground members. Almost a quarter of the population of occupied Kyiv.