Babi Yar / Yevgeniy Yevtushenko Poem / Alex Klurfeld Song

Babi Yar / Yevgeniy Yevtushenko Poem / Alex Klurfeld Song

On September 29-30 1941 the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust took place at Babi Yar, a ravine in Kiev, Ukraine.
In just 2 days 33,771 Jews were murdered by a team of German SS troops, other German units, and local collaborators.

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