Holocaust by Bullets
in september 1941 the nazis seized
ukraine's capital kiev then part of the
soviet union within days an order
appeared summoning the city's jews to a
checkpoint on the outskirts of town
thousands queued up hoping they were
going to be taken to germany or to
palestine
in fact the nazis marched them into
babinya ravine and systematically killed
them
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during two days they killed 34
000 people not using any machines not
using any automatics not using the gas
chambers etc they simply killed by
bullets wherever the nazis went in
eastern europe the horrors of babinya
were repeated between 2 million and 2
million and a half shot by bullets there
was no deportation there was no
concentration camps there were no gas
chambers all the jews were killed in the
villages and buried in the villages
80 years on how should the desire to
move on be balanced with the need to
remember if the lady
is not here to tomorrow nobody knows
it's a weird situation when such an
important site is ignoring what happened
here so much
eagle was a small boy in 1941.
five of his close relatives were killed
at babinya three of them young children
foreign
larissa was a toddler at the time and
was carried by her mother towards the
nazi checkpoint
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the nazis were defeated but for decades
soviet leaders tried to prevent
commemoration of this massacre of jews
the official ideology said about one
united soviet people so also with people
suffer during the world war two and
that's why it's not it's not wise it's
not good if we
underline and highlight the tragedy of
one people
this place is very like
intentionally
cleared and kind of erased from the
kind of landscape of kiev abinha has now
changed beyond all recognition the
ravines have been filled in and until
recently no one was sure exactly where
the september 1941 massacre took place
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then last year a team used old maps and
photos to create a 3d model and
announced that they now know where the
massacre was so basically this is the
location where the johannes holder this
military photographer is going up the
hill and he's able to see this this long
ravine where people were shot he's able
to see prisoners of war that are
covering up this mass grave he says the
place where the shootings took place
is now a nearly completed apartment
block
it's it's a weird situation when such an
important site is it's for me is like
one of the most important sites in the
history of holocaust
is ignoring the what happened here so
much
the construction companies say they have
permission to build and have not seen
official evidence that it's on a mass
grave
you don't have to go far in ukraine to
find many more babinyas
historians estimate that between two and
two and a half million jews were killed
during the holocaust in eastern europe
these researchers are trying to
establish exactly what happened where
and are looking for witnesses
another old lady wants to show the
researchers what she says is a nazi
execution site
this is where maria says the town's jews
were shot and buried
jewish religious beliefs means they
can't dig to verify
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are there lots of other sites like this
around ukraine yeah in
almost every village
if there was some juice
any jew
before the war
we have almost in all the villages the
places like like this one without
memorial without nothing so yeah it's
it's forgotten
if the lady
is not here to tomorrow nobody knows
this place
why is it so important for you to
document
every little detail
it's very easy to find information today
saying it didn't happen it didn't
existed but when you present archives
when you present testimonies when you
present evidences of the crimes and you
find exact place where the jews were
killed
then you have
proofs to fight against holocaust
deniers
everybodyyou
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