Babi Yar Massacre

Yad Vashem
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Published 2016-08-02
Raisa Dashekevich who was born in 1911 and was living in Kiev during the war years recalls how after the explosions at Kreshchatik Street Jews of Kiev were summarily accused and ordered to gather close to Babi Yar ravine. Dashkevich tells how she together with her family and other Kiev Jews went to Babi Yar, how after their arrival they were robbed of their possessions and forced to strip, then driven violently to the ravine. She recalls seeing her entire family falling into the ravine after being shot and then herself laying in the ravine buried under the dead bodies with the her dead small child. Dashekevich tells how at night she managed to crawl out of the Babi Yar ravine and to reach the peasant house near the ravine. Interview conducted by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.

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All Comments (16)
  • @christrinder1255
    This poor woman is still so traumatised by what she went through, I have no words.
  • @Divymak
    what could be worse like this women went through...her own child died in her arms such a horible horible people so bad and evil they were.The worst is that people are the same today
  • @amym.694
    This is terrible..I’m Jewish and this means we can never be sheep to the slaughter again. We have to see and understand what lead up to this to stop it from happening again, unfortunately we aren’t doing that ...
  • @rozsa7828
    For you oh God lifted me up from a pit of destruction praise the Lord you got out I am so sorry
  • @historicrecord
    An important recollection of ultimate evil .Never forget . Never Forgive
  • @dyonysos5210
    I wonder why so many "forget" the role played by the Ukrainians with theyr applauding and laughing at the executing of the jews at Babi yar,not politically correct ?
  • @Maranatha14
    God will have His revenge on those that do evil.