Today marks the 75th anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre in Ukraine. Nearly 34,000 Jews from Kyiv were shot to death on September 29 and 30, 1941, by SS and German police units and their auxiliaries at Babi Yar, a ravine in the northwest of the city. Mirgazim Sabirov was a teenager when he witnessed firsthand the mass execution of the Jewish people. Immediately his family decided to rescue a Jewish family from Babi Yar and hid them in their cellar for the remainder of the occupation of Kiev. |

Ukraine has unveiled a memorial to commemorate the victims of the 1941 Babi Yar massacre. More than 33,000 Jews were killed in the first two days alone by the Nazi forces and local collaborators. | DW News

"No monument stands over Babi Yar." From the Poem "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Velvele-Valentin Krayz was just six years old when his father fell in battle defending Kiev, Ukraine. Ultimately the city was conquered by Germany. On 28 September 1941, just days after the conquest of the city, the Jews, including Velvele and his family, were ordered to assemble at the edge of the ravine by the old Jewish cemetery in Kiev. When they arrived, German soldiers and the Ukrainian collaborators forced