The Babi Yar Massacre

From The Jerusalem Post:

The vast and manifold stories of the tragedy surrounding Babi Yar make it a major symbol of the Holocaust in Ukraine. In reality, two crimes took place on the territory of Babi Yar: the mass executions and the subsequent dissipation and oblivion of their memory. In addition to tens of thousands of Jews, all patients of the Pavlov Psychiatric Hospital were shot here, several Roma camping grounds disappeared without a trace, and in the neighboring Syrets concentration camp for prisoners of war, inmates were condemned to destroy evidence against the Nazis before facing their own death.

Following this, the Soviet authorities dismantled the remains of the Jewish cemetery located here, and attempted to fill the ravine itself with construction waste, resulting in the Kurenivka tragedy – a mudslide carrying effluents and bones from the old cemeteries onto residential houses. They tried to bury Babyn Yar. It was only thirty years later, following protests unprecedented in Soviet Kyiv, that a monument was erected, with just the inscription: “One hundred thousand Soviet citizens died here.” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s full support for the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center indicates a change of direction and is very important for us.

THEY TRIED to bury Babi Yar. It was only 30 years later, following protests unprecedented in Soviet Kiev, when a monument was erected, with just the inscription: “One hundred thousand Soviet citizens died here.” (Read more.)