Ukraine 1941 ▶ Kiev in Color -6th Army PK637 (September 41) Kiew Babi Yar Babyn Jar Massacre

139 Ukraine 1941 ▶ Kiev in Color - Photos by German 6th Army Propaganda-Kompanie PK637 (September 41) Kiew Babi Yar / Babyn Jar German History Archive ▶ Soviet massacres in Bykiwnja: (before September 1941) Bykiwnja (Ukrainian Биківня, Russian Быковня, Polish Bykownia) is a forest in the Darnytsia urban district in the east of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. It is the site of the remains of about 130,000 murdered people from the Stalinist era. Among the victims buried there in mass graves were more than 5,000 members of the Polish armed forces who had become Soviet prisoners of war in September and October 1939. They had been shot by Polish officers and officials in the spring of 1940 as part of the mass executions ordered by the Politburo in Moscow, collectively known as the Katyn Massacre. The graves were found in 2006 by Polish archaeologist Andrzej Kola. Identification by name succeeded only in 9 cases. In addition to these mass graves,