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    Babi Yar

    The massacre of 33,771 Jews in Kiev, Ukraine

    Babi Yar: Aerial Photos
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    What do the aerial photographs of the Babi Yar ravine show regarding the exhumation of human remains and the burning of these remains? Holocaust deniers claim: An aerial photograph of…

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    View of the TV tower from Babi Yar, Kiev. By Roland Geider (Ogre) (own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
    Babi Yar: Physical Evidence
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    Why are we not able to find physical traces of the mass graves at Babi Yar? Holocaust deniers claim: There is no physical evidence in the form of remains in…

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    Syrets concentration camp (also: Syretskij concentration camp), a Nazi German concentration camp erected in 1942 in a Kiev's western neighborhood of Syrets. Barbed wire fence. By World War II unknown photographer (Babi Yar, Berdichev Revival) [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
    Babi Yar: Exhumation of the Bodies
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    Did the Nazis attempt to destroy evidence of the Babi Yar massacre by exhuming and burning the bodies? Holocaust deniers claim: There is only one survivor who exhumed and burned…

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    Babi Yar: Reliability of Witnesses
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    How do we know that the witnesses to the Babi Yar massacre are credible and reliable? Holocaust deniers claim: The eyewitness testimonies regarding the massacre of 33,771 Jews at the…

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    Alley in Babi Yar, Kiev. By Roland Geider (Ogre) (own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
    Introduction: What Is Babi Yar?
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    What is Babi Yar and what happened there? Babi Yar was part of a vast, complex ravine on the northwestern edge of Kiev (Ukraine). It means ‘Old Woman’s Ravine’ or…

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