In Kyiv, on September 29, the memory of the victims of the mass shootings of people by the Nazis in the Babyn Yar tract in 1941-1943 was commemorated. It has been 82 years since the beginning of the tragedy.
As noted by the newspaper “Farmer Pridnestrovya”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine noted the following in its commentary on this date: “During the next few years, in the period from 1941 to 1943, about 100 thousand civilians were killed in Babi Yar: Jews, Ukrainians, Roma, prisoners of war, Soviet underground workers, hostages among the civilian population, patients of psychiatric hospitals and others”.
It was also noted that Ukrainians are again witnessing the devastating consequences of the spread of totalitarian ideology, systematic violation of universally recognized principles and norms of international law.
It was on this day in 1941 that the Nazis began mass executions of the Jewish population of Kyiv in the Babyn Yar tract. In just 2 days (September 29-30), the number of victims was about 34 thousand people, by October 11, the number had increased by another 17 thousand. In total, about 100,000 civilians were killed.
The tragedy in Babyn Yar during the Second World War became a worldwide symbol of the Holocaust.
Author: Anastasiia Mudrak.
