The Babi Yar Massacre
How were thousands killed in two days?
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61 mins
Uncover the events of the Babi Yar massacre during WWII. Explore how Nazi forces and collaborators executed over 33,000 Jews in just two days at Babi Yar, and how the massacre became one of the largest single mass killings of the Holocaust.
Ep 1:
The Ravine at the Edge of Kiev
An introduction to Babi Yar, Kiev, and the ideological machinery of annihilation that turned a Nazi invasion into a blueprint for genocide.
Ep 2:
A City Set Ablaze, A Trap Set for the Innocent
As mysterious explosions rock occupied Kiev, German fury finds a target — and a chilling notice sends tens of thousands of Jews toward a hidden fate.
Ep 3:
Forty-Eight Hours in the Ravine
Inside the ravine, tens of thousands are murdered in layered horror over two days — while one woman's desperate gamble becomes a rare act of survival.
Ep 4:
Two Years of Death, One Desperate Uprising
Babi Yar's killing continues for two years beyond the massacre, until doomed prisoners forced to erase the evidence stage a last, defiant escape.
Ep 5:
Justice in the Snow
Postwar Kiev confronts its executioners as survivor testimony helps convict Nazi killers, culminating in a public hanging before 200,000 witnesses.
Ep 6:
The Fight to Remember Babi Yar
Decades of Soviet silence tried to erase Babi Yar's Jewish victims, until poets, composers, and a newly independent Ukraine forced the world to remember.
Discussions (5)
Howell
Level 10 · 4 mo agoTurns out if you have a failed architecture career and a drinking problem you just join the SS. These guys were mostly just bitter losers taking it out on the world.
Quentin
Level 6 · 4 mo agoI agree 💯 percent. The explosions were just a pretext. The records show they were doing this elsewhere.
Caleb
Level 3 · 4 mo agoblobel failing at architecture and joining the ss cause he was broke is the ultimate loser pipeline
