Commemorating the Righteous of Kyiv

The fall of 2025 marks the 84th anniversary of the murder of Jews in Kyiv. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union on June 22nd, 1941, approximately 160,000 Jews lived in the city. Some 100,000 Jews fled Kyiv prior to the German occupation of the city on September 19, 1941. On September 29 and 30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jews were murdered in the Ravine of Babi Yar, located at the edge of Kyiv.  This was one of the largest mass murders at an individual site during the Holocaust. During the next months, the Germans killed thousands of Jews and non-Jews at Babi Yar. It is estimated that some 100,000 people were murdered at Babi Yar.