What is Babi Yar?
{{Restructure|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox civilian attack | title = Babi Yar Massacre | image = Execution Babi Yar, by Felix Lembersky.jpg | caption = Painting of the Babi Yar Massacre | location = [[Kyiv]] | coordinates = | date = September 29-30, 1941 | time = | timezone = | type = [[Genocide]], [[mass murder]] | fatalities = 33,771 Jews | injuries = 29 survivors | perps = ''[[Einsatzgruppen|Einsatzgruppe C]]'', other ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (SS), [[Nazi Germany|German]] [[police]] | perp = | susperps = | susperp = | weapons = [[Machine gun]]s }} '''Babi Yar''' ({{lang-uk|Бабин Яр}}) is a [[ravine]] in [[Kyiv]], [[Ukraine]]. During [[the Holocaust]], [[Nazi Germany|Nazi]] [[Soldier|soldiers]] [[Mass murder|massacred]] 33,771 [[Jew|Jewish]] people at Babi Yar. This may have been the worst two-day mass murder of Jews in all of [[the Holocaust]]. ==Background== [[Nazi Germany]] and other [[Axis countries]] [[military occupation|occupied]] Kyiv on September 19, 1941. By September 26, the [[military]] [[governor]] and the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (SS) and [[Police]] Leader had decided to kill all of the Jews in Kyiv. They said this would be [[revenge]] for German soldiers being attacked by some Jewish [[guerrilla]] fighters.<ref>{{cite book|title=War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front |first1= Geoffrey P.|last1=Megargee|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2006|isbn=978-0-7425-4481-9|page=95}}<br/>{{cite book|title=A War to be Won: Fighting the Second World War|first1= Williamson|last1=Murray|first2= Allan R.|last2=Millett|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2001|isbn=0-674-00680-1|page=141}}</ref> The Nazis tricked the Jews into coming to Babi Yar by telling them they were going to be [[deportation|sent to another place to live]]. On 28 September 1941, they put up an order in the town. Part of it said: {{quote|''All [Jews] of the city of Kyiv and [nearby areas] must appear on Monday, September 29, by 8 o'clock in the morni