The Babi Yar massacre was one of the largest mass shootings during the Holocaust. Over two days on September 29-30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jews were shot and murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators in a ravine outside of Kyiv. We need to tell the story of the “Holocaust by bullets.” Learn the facts at www.AboutHolocaust.org | World Jewish Congress

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre in Ukraine. Nearly 34,000 Jews from Kyiv were shot to death on September 29 and 30, 1941, by SS and German police units and their auxiliaries at Babi Yar, a ravine in the northwest of the city. Mirgazim Sabirov was a teenager when he witnessed firsthand the mass execution of the Jewish people. Immediately his family decided to rescue a Jewish family from Babi Yar and hid them in their cellar for the remainder of the occupation of Kiev. |