Babi Yar
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The photograph above is one of the most well-known photographs of the Holocaust. Yet, it is from a period of the Holocaust which is seldom spoken about. We mostly hear about the concentration camps and extermination camps. However, prior to the industrialized scale of murder, approximately two million Jews were murdered by bullets. The summer
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The photograph above is a portrait of five-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish child murdered during the mass murder at Babi Yar. On September 29 and 30, the Germans stationed at Kyiv slaughtered 33,000 men, women, and children at Babi Yar—a two-day mass murder spree. If you take the total 48 hours, it is 172,800 seconds;
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On Tuesday March 1,2022 Russian missiles damaged the Babyn Yar (also known as Babi Yar) memorial site. One might say what is the big deal? It didn’t hit a residential area, right? Five people were killed in that strike which is an awful loss of life, any death cause by war is. But there is
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I had planned to do a blog on the horrors of Babi Yar, but I decided against it. Firstly because there is not one word I could write which best describes the depravities committed by the Nazis,both German and Ukrainian. (Notice dated September 28, 1941 in Russian, Ukrainian with German translation ordering all Kievan Jews
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What did you see when shot me? Did you see a threat to your life? Did you see a Monster? Did you see someone who insulted your mother or wife? Did you see a sadistic murderer? Did you feel like a hero when you pulled that trigger? Did you feel good when you saw my
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Before the Nazis retreated from Kiev, they attempted to conceal the many atrocities they had committed at Babi Yar. Paul Blobel, who was in control of the mass murders in Babi Yar two years earlier, supervised the Sonderaktion 1005 in eliminating its traces. For six weeks from August to September 1943, more than 300 chained prisoners were
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