Approximately 80,000 elderly, sick, and mentally ill persons were murdered in experiments with various types of gases. Einsatzgruppen–the Mobile Killing Unit Stage June 24, 1941–late fall 1941 Four ...

Menorah monument in Memory of Jews Victims at the Babyn Yar National Historical Memorial. on October 5, 2020 in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images) A young boy is playing in a ...

More than a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and started a war that the west has universally condemned, the past has continued to find ways to enter the present. Holocaust ...

Yet he chose to subtitle Babi Yar, his classic non-fiction account of Ukraine's holocaust, "a document in the form of a novel". The book, first published in a heavily censored xxx in 1966, poses the ...

Part of the Babi Yar ravine on the outskirts of Kiev, Ukraine, where the advancing Red Army unearthed the bodies of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A Russian missile attack hit an historic site marking one of the greatest Nazi atrocities of World War II: The museum meant to commemorate a key site of the Holocaust. The bombs ...

The first thing you notice when going to Babi Yar is just how close the ravine is from Kiev. So close that if the wind was right in those final days of September 1941, the city residents could almost ...

“There is no possible way of responding to Belsen and Buchenwald,” Lionel Trilling wrote in 1948. “The activity of mind fails before the incommunicability of man’s suffering.” The crimes of both the ...

A young boy is playing in a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv. He comes across a stream, where he notices something unusual. "The riverbed was of good, coarse sand, but now for some reason or other the ...