Babi Yar

Babi Yar
Babi Yar ravine in Kiev
Also known as	Babyn Yar, Babi Jar
Location	Kiev
Date	29–30 September 1941
Incident type	Genocide, mass murder
Perpetrators	Friedrich Jeckeln, Otto Rasch, Paul Blobel, Kurt Eberhard and others
Organizations	Einsatzgruppen, Ordnungspolizei, Sonderkommando 4a
Camp	Syrets concentration camp
Victims	33,771 Jews in initial two-day massacre {29 survived} 100,000–150,000 Ukrainians, Jews, Romanis and Soviet prisoners of war on later dates
Memorials	On site and elsewhere
Notes	Possibly the largest two-day massacre during the Holocaust. Syrets concentration camp was also located in the area. Massacres occurred at Babi Yar from 29 September 1941 to 6 November 1943, when Kiev was liberated.

Babi Yar (Ukrainian: Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar; Russian: Бабий Яр, Babiy Yar) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and local collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union.

The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place 29–30 September 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed. The decision to kill all the Jews in Kiev was made by the military governor, Major-General Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch. It was carried out by Sonderkommando 4a soldiers, along with the aid of the SD and SS Police Battalions backed by the local police. The massacre was the largest mass killing for which the Nazi regime and its collaborators were responsible during its campaign against the Soviet Union and is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust" to that particular date, surpassed only by Aktion Erntefest of November 1943 in occupied Poland with 42,000–43,000 victims and the 1941 Odessa massacre of more than 50,000 Jews in October 1941, committed by Romanian troops.