With joyous melodies of waltz coming from the loudspeakers and uplifting roaring coming from the plane which was making circles above the ravine and was supposed to outcry the weeping and begging for help, the Nazis were shooting people.

Having undressed their victims, the Nazi soldiers pushed them towards the edge of the ravine where they were shot from a machine gun standing on a special platform on the opposite side of the ravine. Dead bodies were sliding down the slopes; hitting the bottom they were covered by new bodies which were falling in layers.

This is how the massacre of Babi Yar started on September 29, 1941, which would later be called one of the most horrible crimes ever to have been committed by the Nazis in the history of Holocaust. This kind of actions were taken by Nazi Germany in occupied Ukraine seeking to solve the so-called “final problem of the Jewish nation”.

 On September 29-30, 1941, in Babi Yar ravine, Sonderkommando 4а of the Einsatzgruppe С under the command of Standartenführer SS Paul Blobel shot 33,771 Jews, thus eradicating the entire Jewish community of Kyiv.

 The Nazis had been using the place to murder people until 1943, with the most mass killings on September 29-30, 1941.

 During the German occupation, around 100 thousand people were murdered in Babi Yar ravine, out of which around 65-70 thousand were Jews.