Babyn Yar in Kyiv is a resplendent ravine in a pastoral setting. Its sense of peace, however, belies its brutal history.

The clues to its past are the beautiful and horrific sculptures that sensitively portray the massacres that took place there in September 1941. Over a two-day period, more than 33,000 Jews were slaughtered at the site, one of the worst mass killings of Jews during WW II by the Nazis. Babyn Yar is a memorial as powerful as Auschwitz, Buchenwald or Dachau. But unlike those Nazi death camps, which are tributes to German efficiency and the industrialization of death, Babyn Yar is elegant in its appearance.

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