Babyn Yar
Wooded ravine and memorial park where Nazi forces shot tens of thousands of Jews in 1941.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Babyn Yar in Kyiv follows Dina Pronicheva, a thirty-year-old actress at the Kyiv Puppet Theatre, on the twenty-ninth of September, nineteen forty-one. She came to the ravine only to walk her parents and sister to what everyone believed was a deportation. The story also touches on the two years of Nazi occupation that followed, and on the long Soviet silence over who lay in this ground. Best heard standing anywhere in the memorial park, away from the traffic.
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