women and children being covered over by sand. larysa is alive because at the last moment her mother gave her away. translation: my mother felt that something was wrong. _ so she handed me to a woman, a stranger, when the policeman looked away. so that was how i got home. but without my mother. babyn yar has now changed beyond all recognition, with the ravines replaced by a park. this place is very, like, intentionally cleared and kind of erased. soviet leaders didn't want a jewish tragedy remembered, and the ukrainians have argued about how best to mark what happened. this is the location where... it was only last year that a team used the nazi photos of the aftermath and 3d modelling to pinpoint the exact spot where the massacre took place.