Babi Yar monument

Memorial to the 1941 massacre where SS units killed over 33,000 Jews in a ravine outside Kyiv.

The Babi Yar monument commemorates one of the largest single massacres of the Holocaust. On 29 and 30 September 1941, SS Einsatzgruppen and German police units murdered 33,771 Jewish men, women and children in the ravine of Babyn Jar on the outskirts of Kyiv. The site has a complex memorial history: during the Soviet era, the killings were long suppressed or framed only as a general war crime. It was not until after Ukrainian independence that proper memorials were established. Babyn Yar stands today as one of the most sobering Holocaust memorial sites in Eastern Europe — a place of silence, grief and the imperative of memory.