Babi Yar massacre

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Holocaust atrocity Nazi war crime crime against humanity massacre war crime

The Babi Yar massacre was a mass killing of tens of thousands of Jews and other civilians by Nazi forces near Kyiv in 1941, becoming one of the most infamous atrocities of the Holocaust.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Babi Yar ravine	1
Babyn Yar massacre	1

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Holocaust atrocity ⓘ Nazi war crime ⓘ crime against humanity ⓘ massacre ⓘ war crime ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Babi Yar massacre ⓘ surface form: Babyn Yar massacre
commandedBy	Paul Blobel ⓘ
commemoratedOn	InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay ⓘ surface form: International Holocaust Remembrance Day anniversaries of 29–30 September ⓘ
countryAtTime	Soviet Union ⓘ
endDate	1941-09-30 ⓘ
evidenceType	Nazi documents ⓘ Soviet investigations ⓘ survivor testimonies ⓘ
historicalSignificance	one of the largest single massacres of Jews during the Holocaust ⓘ symbol of Nazi mass shootings in Eastern Europe ⓘ
inspiredWork	Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar" by Dmitri Shostakovich ⓘ poem "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko ⓘ
legalAftermath	addressed in postwar war crimes trials ⓘ
location	Babi Yar massacre self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Babi Yar ravine Kyiv ⓘ Kyiv Oblast ⓘ Soviet Union ⓘ Soviet Ukraine ⓘ surface form: Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
memorializedBy	Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center project ⓘ Babi Yar memorials in Kyiv ⓘ
methodOfKilling	mass shooting ⓘ
motive	Nazi racial policy ⓘ antisemitism ⓘ political repression ⓘ
numberOfVictimsEstimate	over 33000 Jews killed on 29–30 September 1941 ⓘ tens of thousands of additional victims killed later ⓘ
orderedBy	Friedrich Jeckeln NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Final Solution ⓘ German occupation of Ukraine ⓘ surface form: Nazi occupation of Ukraine
perpetrator	Einsatzgruppen ⓘ surface form: Einsatzgruppe C Einsatzgruppen ⓘ Nazi Germany ⓘ Police Battalion 303 ⓘ Police Battalion 45 ⓘ SS ⓘ Wehrmacht ⓘ surface form: Wehrmacht units
presentDayLocation	Ukraine ⓘ
startDate	1941-09-29 ⓘ
timePeriod	Holocaust ⓘ World War II ⓘ
victimGroup	Jews ⓘ Roma ⓘ Soviet prisoners of war ⓘ Ukrainian nationalists ⓘ civilian hostages ⓘ psychiatric patients ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Babi Yar massacre → alsoKnownAs → Babi Yar massacre ⓘ

this entity surface form: Babyn Yar massacre

Babi Yar massacre → location → Babi Yar massacre self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Babi Yar ravine

Nazi war crimes → notableEvent → Babi Yar massacre ⓘ

Einsatzgruppen → perpetrated → Babi Yar massacre ⓘ

Paul Blobel → perpetrated → Babi Yar massacre ⓘ