Possibly the saddest war image ever made. Ukraine on 16th October, 1941 when Einsatzgrupen Squad 4a killed all the Jewish men,women and children in the village by shooting them at close range. Within One hour after this photograph was taken, all men, women and children depicted in the photograph were dead.
The most notorious and the best documented of these massacres took place on September 29–30, 1941, where 33,771 Jews were killed in a single operation. The decision to kill all the Jews in Kiev was made by the military governor, Major-General Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch.Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by German forces and local collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union.
