At the outbreak of World War II, cities of Ukraine such as Kiev, Lviv, and Odessa had a large Jewish community. Approximately two million Jews were well established in everyday life as a doctor of Ukraine, educators, entrepreneurs, merchants and publishers. With the German invasion of 1941, people fell into the hands of the Nazis. In September, the Nazi military governor, Major General George Friedrich Eberhardt, decided to kill all the Jews in Kiev. On 29-30 September with the help of local collaborators,
the Nazis collected Jewish men, women and children, and escorted them out of town to a ravine called Babi-Yar. There, people helplessly stripped of their valuables and clothes, and shot.
The bodies were covered in a mass grave. It has been estimated that about 35,000 Jews were killed, along with several thousand Gypsies, Ukrainian citizens, suspected communists, Russians and prisoners of war.
Many tourists who travel to Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, are the Jews in the hajj. They came to the accommodation in Kiev so that they can pay homage to the victims of Babi Yar Massacre-. That’s the worst atrocities the Holocaust to take place in Ukraine.
During the Soviet era, the Soviet government established a monument to Russia-died at Babi Yar. But it was not until after Ukrainian independence that the monument was established for Jews and other victims murdered.
Today’s visitors staying in Kiev hotels and tourism Kiev apartment can tour the site and see the various monuments. There is a menorah-shaped memorial to all Ukrainian Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Another monument, very moving look at, dedicated to children killed at Babi Yar-. There is a large wooden cross was set to the memory 621 Ukrainian citizens were killed by the Nazis. Kiev hotel visitors can also see other memorial sites in the vicinity; Oak Cross marks the spot where the two Orthodox Christian priest was shot because of the anti-Nazi activities, monuments to Ostarbeiters (young slave labor) and concentration camp prisoners, a monument to victims of landslides in Kurenivka 1961, and three tombs mark the burial place of Nazi victims.