Memorial wall built at Babi Yar for the 50th anniversary ceremony displaying actual photographs during the Nazi occupation
Memorial wall built at Babi Yar for the 50th anniversary ceremony of what is considered to be the largest single massacre by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The photographs on the wall were taken during the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine. Babi Yar is a ravine near the Ukrainian capital of Kiev where according to Nazi records 33,771 Jews were shot on September 29 and 30 of 1941. After the war Soviet researchers found evidence that 100,000 Jews, Gypsies and Soviet Prisoners were executed from 1941 to 1943 by the Nazis and collaborating Ukrainians at Babi Yar. An official memorial to the Soviet citizens that died at Babi Yar was erected in 1976, but it was not until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 that the independent Ukrainian government allowed a memorial specifically to the Jewish victims to be constructed before the 50th anniversary ceremony. Photo by Chuck Nacke
Size: 3324px × 5621px
Location: Babi Yar, Kiev, Ukraine, CIS
Photo credit: © Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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