Jews on their way from the city of Kiev to the Babi Yar ravine pass corpses lying on the street. According to Operational Situational Report USSR No. 106, dated October 7, 1941, elements of Einsatzgruppe C, including Sonderkommando 4a and two Kommandos of Police Regiment South, participated in the execution of 33,771 Jews at the Babi Yar ravine on the outskirts of Kiev. The author of the report claims that the action was carried out in response to complaints about Jews by the local population and the Wehrmacht which "approved the measures taken." The report also states that both the local population and the Jews were told the action involved the relocation, not the extermination of local Jews. Orders for Jews to assemble at 6:00 p.m. at an unidentified location were posted throughout the city by Ukrainian collaborators on 29 September, and the Jews were then brought to the ravine. As a result, public knowledge "that they were actually liquidated has hardly been made known." The action continued throughout the next day as well. Source: Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Wiesbaden, Germany. Quick Jump: Mass Executions | Nazi Genocide | Medical Experiments | Death Camps | Holocaust Documents | Holocaust Photo Archive Index ParaScope Image Gallery Foyer