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Investigating Babyn Yar
Shadows from the Valley of Death
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2023
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Investigating Babyn Yar: Shadows from the Valley of Death pieces together the story of the destruction of Kyiv’s Jews using history’s shattered fragments. Martin Dean traces their journey out of the city, using discarded clothing and distinctive terrain as a trail of breadcrumbs to identify the killing site in the ravine. Shadowy figures in photographs and escape stories from the mass grave reveal the suffering of many that is documented by the survival of just a few. Using aerial photographs, ground photographs, and extensive eye-witness testimony, the author locates specific incidents in the topography to explain what happened on September 29-30, 1941. Interwoven into the main narrative, this book examines the massacre’s broader context. Respective chapters describe efforts by Jews to flee the city, the escalation of Nazi mass shootings, and the plunder of Jewish property. During its occupation of Kyiv, the Gestapo established a network of prison camps and deployed a special unit to exhume and burn the corpses at Babyn Yar, covering up the crime before their hasty retreat. Postwar, the ravine was scarred by a terrible mudslide in 1961. Then Soviet redevelopment and memorial plans sought to erase both the topography and the Jewish identity of this symbolic site of Holocaust memory.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-4139-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-4140-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
274
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 1: Special Assignment No access Pages 9 - 16
Chapter 2: Placards Pasted on the Streets No access Pages 17 - 22
Chapter 3: Baptism of Fire: The Bloody Road to Kyiv No access Pages 23 - 30
Chapter 4: The Lone Tree as Silent Witness No access Pages 31 - 40
Chapter 5: The Streets Were Full of Jews No access Pages 41 - 46
Chapter 6: Escape from the Bunker No access Pages 47 - 54
Chapter 7: Not on the Map No access Pages 55 - 64
Chapter 8: The Checkpoint on Melnikov Street No access Pages 65 - 76
Chapter 9: The Brick Factory and the Mudslide No access Pages 77 - 82
Chapter 10: Luggage Piled Up on Dorohozhytska Street No access Pages 83 - 92
Chapter 11: Evacuations of Jews from Kyiv and Their Return No access Pages 93 - 102
Chapter 12: Running the Gauntlet No access Pages 103 - 114
Chapter 13: The Clothing Discarded in the Sand Quarry No access Pages 115 - 124
Chapter 14: The POW Camp on Kerosynna Street No access Pages 125 - 132
Chapter 15: Trill’s Bridge No access Pages 133 - 144
Chapter 16: The Organization of the Mass Shooting No access Pages 145 - 154
Chapter 17: Efforts by Jews to Escape No access Pages 155 - 166
Chapter 18: Exploding the Ravine Walls No access Pages 167 - 176
Chapter 19: The German Retreat from Kyiv No access Pages 177 - 182
Chapter 20: Claiming the Plunder No access Pages 183 - 192
Chapter 21: The Gestapo Prison and Forced Labor Camps in Kyiv No access Pages 193 - 204
Chapter 22: Jewish Tombstones No access Pages 205 - 210
Chapter 23: The Burial of History and Its Rebirth at Babyn Yar No access Pages 211 - 220
Chapter 24: Missile Strike on the TV Tower No access Pages 221 - 230
Chapter 25: War Crimes Investigations No access Pages 231 - 238
Chapter 26: Lengthening Shadows No access Pages 239 - 246
