Babi Yar
Holocaust Site

April 2007, with Ezra International: We met with two Babi Yar survivors Raya (69) and Vesilly (70). Raya said that people always ask her why people went to be shot? She said that they thought that they were going to Babi Yar train station for transfer and were told that if they did not go, they would be shot, so they went. Her grandmother was carrying her. She ran with Raya (3 yrs old) across the street to a cemetery. The soldiers shot at them, but missed. They could not chase after them as they had to stay with the massed group. Raya and her grandmother hid in the graveyard until nightfall, went back to their neighborhood and were helped by their neighbors for two years until the end of the war.

Vesilly, a Babi Yar survivor, at the Jewish Memorial erected in 1991. Raya and Vesilly, Babi Yar survivors. The Soviet memorial erected in 1976 did not mention that most victims were Jews.
A repentance service at the Memorial. Children's Memorial. Thousands were murdered here. We lit candles and laid flowers at the foot of the Jewish Memorial.