Babi Yar: Realities

The Babi Yar ravine in Kyiv is one of the Holocaust’s most infamous sites, marking a record-breaking mass killing of Jews who were deceitfully brought there under the threat of death for a supposed relocation. Over just two days, on September 29 and 30, 1941, nearly 34,000 people were shot, a tragic event that represents half a percent of the total Holocaust death toll.

Babi Yar epitomizes the execution-style killings of the Holocaust, the firing ground for extermination of people and exhumation of their corpses. It is a place of death and oblivion, an epicenter of otherworldly negative sacrality––a sort of entrance to Hell. These elements make Babi Yar a point of international interest and a universally sacred place of tragedy.

This book is a historical and analytical chronicle, based on the principles of critical historicism and supported by a solid factual foundation, written in a dispassionate journalistic voice.

Chisinau: The Historical Expertise, 2024.