Babyn Yar - a world-known place of tragedy, which became a symbol of the Holocaust, the largest international cemetery in Ukraine. Here, during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine were shot more than 100 thousand civilian Soviet citizens, prisoners of war, underground fighters, partisans, hostages, members of the OUN, mentally ill and others.
Jews and Gypsies (women, old peoples and children) - by nationality, communists and Komsomol members - for ideological reasons, and those who somehow did not suit the government of the "higher races" were murdered there by fascist punitive.
