BABI YAR - EVIL KNOWS NO LIMITS

76 years ago today the Babi Yar massacre - in which the Nazis slaughtered nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women, & children - began on the outskirts of Kiev.

The German army took Kiev Sept 19 and special SS squads prepared to carry out Hitler's orders to exterminate all Jews and Soviet officials.

Beginning Sept 29, more than 30,000 Jews were marched in small groups to the Babi Yar ravine north of the city, ordered to strip naked, and machine-gunned into the ravine.

Eyewitnesses and other evidence attest to the atrocities at Babi Yar, which became a symbol of Jewish suffering in the Holocaust.

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