List of victims of the Babi Yar massacre
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This is a list of victims of the Babi Yar massacre. During September 29—30, 1941, a special team of German
SS
aided by Soviet impersonators of Ukrainian police
killed 33,771 Jews, Ukrainian
s, Pole
s. The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust
". Executions of Jews, Ukrainians
, Gypsies and others continued in Babi Yar throughout the period of the Nazi occupation of Kiev
, ending with the beginning of the Battle of Kiev (1943)
, Soviet occupation of Kiev in November 1943, totalling up to 120,000 victims.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
SS
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...
aided by Soviet impersonators of Ukrainian police
Ukrainian-German collaboration during World War II
During the military occupation of Ukraine by Nazi Germany, a number of Ukrainians initially chose to cooperate with the Nazis. Their reasons included the hopes of independence from the Soviet Union and past maltreatment by Soviet authorities....
killed 33,771 Jews, Ukrainian
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
s, Pole
Pole
-General:*Poles, people originating from inbitating or inhabiting the country of Poland*Pole -Fictional:*Jill Pole, a fictional character from C. S...
s. The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be "the largest single massacre in the history of the Holocaust
The Holocaust
The Holocaust , also known as the Shoah , was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews and millions of others during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi...
". Executions of Jews, Ukrainians
Ukrainians
Ukrainians are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine, which is the sixth-largest nation in Europe. The Constitution of Ukraine applies the term 'Ukrainians' to all its citizens...
, Gypsies and others continued in Babi Yar throughout the period of the Nazi occupation of Kiev
Kiev
Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....
, ending with the beginning of the Battle of Kiev (1943)
Battle of Kiev (1943)
The 1943 Battle of Kiev describes three strategic operations by the Soviet Red Army, and one operational counterattack by the Wehrmacht which took place in the wake of the failed German offensive at Kursk during World War II...
, Soviet occupation of Kiev in November 1943, totalling up to 120,000 victims.
Jewish victims
A list of some Jewish victims, including 26 of those who died in the Babi Yar, is available here.Ukrainian victims
- 621 members of Organization of Ukrainian NationalistsOrganization of Ukrainian NationalistsThe Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists is a Ukrainian political organization which as a movement originally was created in 1929 in Western Ukraine . The OUN accepted violence as an acceptable tool in the fight against foreign and domestic enemies particularly Poland and Russia...
(OUN) were executed. - Ukrainian poet and activist Olena TelihaOlena TelihaOlena Ivanivna Teliha was a Ukrainian poet and Ukrainian activist of Ukrainian and Belarusian ethnicity.-Biography:Olena Teliha was born Elena Ivanovna Shovgeneva in the village of Ilyinskoe, near Moscow in Russia where her parents spent summer vacations. There are a several villages by this name...
and her husband banduristBanduristA bandurist is a person who plays the Ukrainian plucked string instrument known as the bandura.-Types of performers:There are a number of different types of bandurist who differ in their paricular choice of instrument, the specific repertoire they play and manner in which they approach their...
Mykhailo TelihaMykhailo TelihaMykhailo Pavlovych Teliha Mykhailo Teliha was an active Ukrainian community leader and distinguished musician. He was born in the Akhtyrka Stanitsa in the Kuban. It is here that he first became interested in playing the bandura in 1913...
were executed there on February 21, 1942. - Volodymyr BahaziyVolodymyr BahaziyVolodymyr Panteleimonovych Bahasiy , was a Ukrainian nationalist affiliated with the Andriy Melnyk's faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and head of Kiev City Administration under German occupation in October 1941 - January 1942.He was a professional...
- the previous Mayor of Kiev - Roman Bitsa, - writer
- I. Bondarenko - the head of the oblast union of food workers with his wife and children,
- Konstantin Bukhalo - writer
- Orest Chemerynsky - boy-scout leader
- Teodosiy Cherednychenko - the rector of the Kyiv Politechnical Institute,
- Lev Didyk - (1915–1941) Ukrainian boy-scout leader
- Yevhen Forostivsky and his wife,
- Mykhailo Halasa - boy-scout leader
- Odarka Huzar-Chemerynska, writer
- Yuri Ihnatenko - writer
- Ivan Irliansky, - writer
- O. Klymenko, - football player
- Vasyl Kobryn, - writer
- M. Korotkyj, - football player
- Ivan Koshyk, - writer
- I. Kuz'menko, - football player
- Professor Lazarenko the rector of the Kyiv Medical University,
- Roman Liasota - poet
- Sashko Linchevsky - poet
- Professor Makhynia,
- Petro Oliynyk, writer
- Yaroslav Orshan-Chemerynsky writer and newspaper editor,
- Ivan RohachIvan RohachIvan Rohach was a Ukrainian journalist, poet, writer, and political activist born in Velykyj Bereznyj , Austria-Hungary ....
poet, editor of the Ukrainian literary newspaper "Slovo", his author wife, and sister Anna, - Ivan Romanov - the head city engineer for Kyiv,
- Ivan Roshko, - (1919–1941) writer and boy-scout leader.
- Mykhailo Rudnyk - poet
- Volodymyr Skorobsky - poet and Ukrainian boy-scout leader
- Yevhen and Yevheniy Sukhoversky.
- I. Sychenko, - writer
- Kost' Teslenko - poet
- M. Trusevych, football player
- Ivan Yakovenko - writer
- A couple of dozen Ukrainian orthodox priests, monks and nuns among them Bishop Vyshniakov and Archbishop Pavlo.
See also
- Babi YarBabi YarBabi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union. The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, wherein 33,771 Jews were killed in a...
- Babi Yar memorialsBabi Yar memorialsBabi Yar, a ravine near Kiev, was the scene of possibly the largest shooting massacre during the Holocaust. After the war, commemoration efforts encountered serious difficulty because of the policy of the Soviet Union. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a number of memorials have been...