Video: 'The Rape of Humanity at Babi Yar - War Against Humanity 019 - September 1941 Pt. 2' (Sept. 29, 1941, at 6:09)

(Monday, September 29, 1941, approximately 8:00 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during the Babi Yar massacre and The Holocaust, part of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front of World War II) — SS and German police units and their auxiliaries, under guidance of members of Einsatzgruppe C, began murdering a large portion of the Jewish population of Kiev today at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of the city.

As the victims moved into the ravine, Einsatzgruppen detachments from Sonderkommando 4a under SS-Standartenführer Paul Blobel shot them in small groups.

According to reports by the Einsatzgruppe to headquarters, 33,771 Jews were massacred in this two-day period in one of the largest mass killings at an individual location during World War II.

In the months following the massacre, German authorities stationed at Kiev killed thousands more Jews at Babi Yar, as well as non-Jews including Roma (Gypsies), Communist officials, Soviet prisoners of war and Soviet civilians.

It is estimated that some 100,000 people were murdered at Babi Yar.

On Mar. 1, 2022, the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial complex was struck by a Russian missile during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The attack killed at least five people.