what is it Babii Iar ? and give me photoes of it?

Answer 1

Babii Iar or Babi Yar is the name of a ravine near Kiev, where the Germans killed more than 100,000 people.

By September 19, 1941, the Germans had reached Kiev in their offensive against the Soviet Union. On September 24 - five days after the Germans entered Kiev - a bomb exploded around four o'clock in the afternoon at the German headquarters. The Germans were shocked. Then they cordoned off the area and gathered people in the vicinity as suspects. For days, bombs exploded in buildings occupied by the Germans.

After the war, it was determined that a group of Soviet secret service members were responsible. But during the war, the Germans decided it was the work of Jews, and retaliated for the bombings against the Jewish population of Kiev.
On September 28, the Germans posted a notice stating that all Jews should gather near the cemetery the following day. The Jews thought that they were going to be deported, but instead they were brought to Babi Yar, a ravine Northeast of Kiev, to be shot.
Afterwards, the Germans gathered Gypsies, patients of a psychiatric clinic, and Soviet prisoners of war, to be shot at Babi Yar. It is estimated that 100,000 people were murdered there.
By mid 1943, the Germans were on the retreat.
In August 1943, they forced some prisoners to destroy the evidence of their mass murders by cremating the corpses. At the end of 6 weeks of destroying corpses, 15 prisoners managed to escape. The rest was killed.

Babii Iar is also the title of a book by Anatolii Kuznetsov (b. 1929). The book was finished in 1965 and published in the magazine Iunost` with numerous cuts made by censors. Kuznetsov defected from the USSR in 1969. The complete work was published in London in 1970.

Answer 2

it's a place in Kiev, Ukraine, where Nazis led that city's Jews to be killed (in late 1941 or early 1942 I think). I don't have photos of it, sorry!