NOTICE: “All Yids of the city of Kiev and its vicinity must appear on Monday, September 29, by 8 o'clock in the morning at the corner of Mel'nikova and Dorohozhytska streets. Bring documents, money and valuables, and also warm clothing, and linen. Any Yids who do not follow this order and are found elsewhere will be shot.”

33,771 men, women and children assembled and were marched two miles out of Kiev to Babi Yar, a deep ravine. The crowd was enormous and chaotic. The people were forced to deposit all of their luggage, warm coats, money, valuables and clothing (including underwear) into designated piles. The naked people were then forced single file in groups of 10 down a corridor of soldiers into the bottom of the deep and wide ravine. The Schultpolizei required them to lay face down and German marksmen proceeded to shoot each person in the neck with submachine guns. Like a layer cake, soil from the sides of the ravine was scraped down in between the rows of dead bodies.

29 out of 33,771 survived. One testified.

Witnesses recounted what they saw. The stories match.

Further Reading https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kiev-and-babi-yar

Work in Progress, detail, Babi Yar