To the anniversary of Babi Yar
The mass grave and the symbol of the Holocaust in Ukraine was Babi Yar. From September 1941 until the end of September 1943, it was the site of regular executions and burial that were conducted by the Nazi security police and the Army's Ayazantzgruppe together with the military and civil authorities of Kyiv. The victims of the Nazis were Jews, gypsies, Ukrainian nationalists, Soviet prisoners of war, patients from the Kyiv psychiatric hospital and other national or social groups that the invaders considered enemies or "just superfluous." Babi Yar is a necropolis for more than 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war. More information here.
Above Babi Yar is the rustle of wild grasses. Trees look menacingly, like judges.
Everyone silently here screams, and, taking off his hat, I feel how slowly I grow gray.
And I myself, like a continuous, soundless scream, over the thousands of thousands buried.
I'm every old man shot here. I'm every child here shot. Ye. Evtushenko
The scientific library offers its readers:
Levitas, I. The Righteous of Babi Yar / I. Levitas. - M .: ETHNOS, 2008. - 367 p. The edition tells about people who showed heroism, greatness of spirit and nobility, saving Jews from doom.
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