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SS men search through massive piles of clothing belonging to the more than 33,000 Jews murdered at the nearby Babyn Yar killing site. The SS forced the victims to undress and leave their belongings behind. The Jews were then marched or driven to the shooting site. Kyiv (Kiev), German-occupied Soviet Union, after September 30, 1941. 
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1935 portrait of three-year-old Anna Glinberg, a Jewish child. She was later killed during the mass execution at Babi Yar.
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1935 portrait of three-year-old Anna Glinberg
1936 portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish child, who was later killed during the mass execution at Babi Yar.
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1936 portrait of two-year-old Mania Halef
An aerial photograph of Babi Yar taken by the German air force. September 26, 1943.
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Aerial photograph of Babi Yar
An aerial photograph of Babi Yar taken by the German air force. September 26, 1943.
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Aerial photograph of Babi Yar taken by the German air force
An SS guard examines piles of clothing belonging to the more than 33,000 Jews murdered at the nearby Babyn Yar killing site. The SS forced the victims to undress and leave their belongings behind. The Jews were then marched or driven to the shooting site. Kyiv (Kiev), German-occupied Soviet Union, after September 30, 1941. 
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An SS guard examines clothing of victims of the Babyn Yar mass shootings
On September 29-30, 1941, SS and German police units and their auxiliaries, under guidance of members of Einsatzgruppe  C, murdered the Jewish population of Kiev at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of the city.  This photograph shows groups of Jews being forced to hand over their possessions and undress before being shot in the ravine. 
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Babi Yar massacre
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Babyn Yar (Babi Yar) massacre in Kiev, 1941
Belongings of a Jewish family murdered by an SS mobile killing squad at Babyn Yar. On September 29-30, 1941, the SS killed more than 33,000 Jews from Kyiv (Kiev). A German Propaganda Company photographer took this image within days of the massacre. Kyiv, German-occupied Soviet Union, after September 30, 1941.
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Belongings of a Jewish family murdered at Babyn Yar
Clothing belonging to Jewish victims murdered by the SS at the nearby Babyn Yar killing site. Prior to the mass shootings, the SS ordered Jews to undress and leave their belongings. They then marched or drove the victims to the killing site. A German photographer took this image within days of the mass shootings. Kyiv (Kiev), German-occupied Soviet Union, after September 30, 1941.
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Belongings of Jewish victims murdered at Babyn Yar
The SS ordered Jews to undress prior to the mass shootings at the nearby Babyn Yar killing site. In two days, September 29-30, 1941, they shot more than 33,000 Jews from Kyiv (Kiev). This photograph, taken by a member of a German Propaganda Company, shows just some of the belongings of these victims. Kyiv, German-occupied Soviet Union, After September 30, 1941. 
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Belongings of Jews murdered at Babyn Yar
On September 15, 1947, defendant Paul Blobel pleads not guilty during his arraignment at the Einsatzgruppen Trial. Blobel was the commander of the unit responsible for the massacre at Babi Yar (near Kiev). He was convicted by the military tribunal at Nuremberg and sentenced to death. Blobel was hanged at the Landsberg prison on June 8, 1951.
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Defendant Paul Blobel pleads not guilty at the Einsatzgruppen Trial
In the summer of 1941, following Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, the Germans began to perpetrate mass shootings of Jewish men, women, and children in territory seized from Soviet forces. These murders were part of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. Many of these mass shootings were organized and committed by task forces or special action groups, called Einsatzgruppen in German. Units of Einsatzgruppen followed the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union and Soviet-controlled territory. In addition to the Einsatzgruppen, other German units also carried out mass shootings. These units included Order Police battalions, military units (Wehrmacht), and the Waffen SS, as well as Schutzmannschaften (collaborating auxiliary police units formed of native recruits). The Einsatzgruppen were a relatively small group. Without additional forces, the systematic mass murder of Jews in these regions would not have been possible.  This map shows some of the locations of mass killing sites in eastern Europe at the height of German expansion. The area on the map largely coincides with what today are Ukraine and parts of Belarus, Poland, and Russia. Of particular note is the Babyn Yar massacre site in the Ukrainian city of Kyiv (marked with a yellow dot). The massacre at Babyn Yar was one of the largest mass killings at a single location during World War II. 
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Einsatzgruppen massacre sites in Ukraine and surrounding areas
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Einsatzgruppen massacres in eastern Europe, Babi Yar indicated
Portrait of five-year-old Mania Halef, a Jewish child, who was later killed during the mass execution at Babi Yar.
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Five-year-old Mania Halef
An aerial photograph of Babi Yar taken by the German air force. September 26, 1943.
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Mass Shootings at Babyn Yar (Babi Yar)
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Kyiv (Kiev) and Babyn Yar (Babi Yar) - maps

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