The Dark Story of Babi Yar

The Babi Yar is a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev. Kiev was the capital of the Soviet Ukraine when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Some 160,000 Jews resided in Kiev, about 20 percent of the city's population. Mobile squads killed at

The Soviet troops arrived in Mir, where Jack`s parents lived, and took control a few days after the invasion. The troops seemed friendly. The Russians chose not to acknowledge the “Jewish problem.” The Russian occupation was not too bad, especially when compared to the German occupation. In June 1941, Germany invaded the eastern part of Poland. They turned on their Russian allies who were caught by surprise by the Nazi Blitzkrieg and did not put up much of a fight. At the beginning of their occupation, the Nazi`s were secretive about their plans and actions. Then, “about two months after the initial occupation, the action against the Jews were intensified (page 40, Jack and Rochelle).” The Jews were instructed to give up all valuables and then pack. The Jews were headed for the ghetto, which “was located in the worst part of town (page 40, Jack and Rochelle).”

Hitler believed the Jews were responsible for the loss of world war one and also the settlement that made the Germans pay for the damages in europe. Hitler thought the Germans were a superior race. Hitler wanted to destroy all educated Jews so that if the war was lost then they wouldn't know what to do after the concentration camps

“Babi Yar is a ravine on the outskirts of Kiev, where Einsatzgruppen mobile squads killed at least 34,000 Jews over a one week period in September 1941 (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “This ravine was about 150 meters long and 30 meters wide and 15 meters deep (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “The ravine was near the town’s Jewish cemetery (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “The mass murder at Babi yar included men, women, and children systematically getting machine-gunned in a two day orgy of execution (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. The process of how these people had been murdered was very brutal. “The Jews, in their groups of a thousand, were herded into barbed-wire areas at the top of the ravine (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “These areas were guarded by Ukrainian collaborators (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “In this area they were forced to strip their clothes (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “The Jews were also getting beaten at the time of which they were taking off their clothes (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “Once they removed their clothing, it went into a certain pile (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. Each article of clothing had a certain pile to be placed in. “Subsequently, they were led down the side of the ravine (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “Once there, the first groups were forced to lie on the ground, face down, and were machine-gunned by the Germans who kept up a steady volley (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “To be shot, a police marksman came along and shot each Jew in the neck with a submachine gun (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “Once the Jews had been murdered, there riddled bodies were covered with thin layers of dirt (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “The next batch of Jews was ordered to lie over the people before them who died (Levine, jewishvirtuallibrary.org)”. “Then the killing

As the Russian Army was advancing westwards of Germany, they have reached the Buna Concentration Camp in Weimar, Germany and liberated over 1000’s of Jews. The Russian Army arrived at the Concentration Camp, Yesterday, January 27th, approximately at 10:00 a.m. First, the Americans conducted an air raid 8 days ago, then the Russians came in and liberated the Jews.

Did you know that the Nazis tried to hide the clues that they killed thousands of people? On September 29 and 30, 1941 the Nazis killed around 30,000 Jews. This massacre was called the Babi Yar Massacre, which took the lives of innocent people. The Massacre was designed to kill thousands of Jews and they would never forget this destructive event until they died.

In 1941, the Germans launched a The Babi Yar was ravine in Keiv Ukraine was the site of over 100,000 and quite possibly 200,000 Jewish Russians that were captured following the invasion. On 26 September 1941 the German 637th propaganda company issued an announcement in Kiev, ordering the Jews to report within the next three days at Lukianovska, Degtiarska, Lagerna, and Melnikova Streets.

They also planned several deportations of the Jews prior to the beginning of the holocaust, including the Nisko and Lublin Plan and the Madagascar Plan. The Madagascar Plan was abandoned due to its impracticality, since it required a successful invasion of Britain in order to acquire the necessary fleet of ships. On the other hand, about 95,000 Jews were in fact relocated to the Lublin reservation, which the Functionalists say shows a genuine attempt to relocate them. Of course, the reservation was later shut down and most of these Jews were murdered, but functionalists believe that that was not the original goal. Functionalists argue that the Nazis adapted their plans

Hitler thought of the Jewish population as a worthless society and treated the individuals as worthless creatures. When Hitler came to power, he established the camps "for the purpose of isolation, punishing, torturing, and killing Germans suspected of opposition to his regime."10 The Germans wanted to guarantee the death of as many Jews as possible "while extracting some useful labor from the doomed."11 The camps were set up technically and psychologically to

Hitler wanted to get rid of Jews. He had two ways to get rid of the Jews. First Hitler's set up ghettos in order to kill Jews. Ghettos are very tight areas that are designated for Jews to starve to death or die from a disease. Hitler thought that was too slow for him. Hitler's second plan was to kill a massive number of Jews at

During the occupation of Kiev, by German’s troops Babi Yar would belong to a place of mass executions and burials, a huge mass grave, where just under according to official records were

Adolf Hitler came to power over Germany in January of 1933. He hated Jews and blamed them for everything bad that had ever happened to Germany. Hitler’s goal in life was to eliminate the Jewish population. With his rise to power in Germany, he would put into action his plan of elimination. This is not only why German Jews were the main target of the Holocaust, but why they were a large part of the years before, during, and after the Holocaust. Hitler’s “final solution” almost eliminated the Jewish population in Europe during World War II. At the end of the war and along with his suicide, the Jewish population would survive the horror known as the Holocaust and the Jews would eventually find their way back to their homeland of Israel

According to Kagan, “Hitler’s long-range plans included germinating in lands inhabited by people racially akin to the Germans.” (Kagan, 2001) He wanted to turn these lands in colonies/empires. He also intended to recapture territory that was lost to Poland in World War One.

October 9, 1939, the invasion of Poland is over. Germany has won the invasion. We now control Poland. The battle did not last for long. Seeing what our country can do is quite scary. We went into Poland and we took it in the blink of an eye. The invasion almost lasted a month. Still seeing what is happening to our country still gives me a bad feeling. All the Jews from Poland and Germany have been sent to concentration camps. It is not right for what they are all doing to these people. They have not done anything wrong to anyone or anything. They do not deserve to be getting killed over nothing done.

The Germans and the rest of the Axis had very good reasons for wanting to control Madagascar. The first is that they were going to use this remote island as a place to deport some of the remaining 10,000 Jewish refugees still in France that had not been able to find a home in South Africa or Brazil. The French were not the only ones suffering though; the Polish and the Germans really need to get the Jews out as well. However like many of the other Nazi ideologies, it was not a new one. A lot of British, Polish and Dutch anti-Semites had been considering the idea to move the Jews there since as early as 1878.