with how the atrocities should be remembered. this is larysa bahautdinova, visiting babyn yar in 1950. it s the place where she could have died. that she s alive now is down to extraordinary good fortune. larysa was just a year old in september 1941, when her mother obeyed a nazi announcement calling alljews to a checkpoint on the outskirts of town. translation: they didn t know they would go to babyn yar. - they were told they were going to germany. there was no deportation. thejews were marched into a ravine, made to undress, and shot dead. during two days, they killed 34,000 people, not using any machines, not using any automatics, not using the gas chambers etc they simply killed by bullets. a nazi photographer took this picture of the bodies ofjewish men,
larissa was just a year old in september 1941, when her mother obeyed a nazi announcement calling alljews to a checkpoint on the outskirts of town. translation: they didn t know they would go to babyn yar. i they were told they were going to germany. there was no deportation. thejews were marched into a ravine, made to undress, and shot dead. during two days, they killed 34,000 people, not using any machines, not using any automatics, not using the gas chambers, etc they simply killed by bullets. a nazi photographer took this picture of the bodies ofjewish men, women and children being covered over by sand. larissa 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.