Maksym Rokhmaniko
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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The site now doesn't look anything like it was in 1940s.
And the work that we were doing was kind of partly directed towards reconstructing that place and understanding how exactly it was.
But I can respond to what it generally means to many people.
And, you know, like Bavaniar is the site of...
It's one of the most important events in the history of the Holocaust.
As Linda said, it's the biggest at its time massacre where each person was killed by a bullet.
It's this chapter of the Holocaust which precedes the history that people on the West particularly know really well, which is this history of gas chambers and concentration camps.
But it's a really important chapter in the way they were prototyping these technologies of violence.
Only in the course of two days in September, 29th and 30th of September, 1941, there's over 33,000 Jews who are killed at this site.
And that particular massacre is very well documented.
We know a lot about it.
a lot of witness testimonies from all sides.
We have images.
So we understand that particular event really well.
Bab Ben Yar is also a site of murder of many other people than Jews.
So it was the site that Germans systematically used to bring people, either already dead people or people who were shot.
And it's a vast territory.
It's a vast landscape of ravines that spur through the landscape and kind of continue
towards the Dnieper River and more or less all of this territory was in one or another way weaponized as this site, as this mass grave.
So yes, that's the meaning of this site for, again, if you read Wikipedia pages and historic research,
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