Photographs of the Holocaust
Einsatzgruppen
On the Way to Their Death
- Jews on their way out of the city of Kiev to the Babi Yar ravine (pass corpses lying on the street).
Undressing and Waiting
- Jewish women and a child - after they had handed over their belongings to German soldiers and before a mass execution.
- Close-up of a young mother with her two children, sitting among a large group of Jews from Lubny who have been assembled for mass execution by the Germans.
- Unidentified people sit among piles of clothing at the bottom of a ravine presumed to be Babi Yar.
- German police and Ukrainian collaborators in civilian clothes look on as Jewish women are forced to undress before their execution.
- Naked Jewish women, some of whom are holding infants, wait in a line before their execution by Ukrainian auxilliary police.
The Shooting
- Jewish men are forced to dig their own graves before being executed by Waffen-SS troops.
- Men with an unidentified unit execute a group of Soviet civilians kneeling by the side of a mass grave.
- Member of Einsatzgruppe D prepares to shoot a Ukrainian Jew kneeling on the edge of a mass grave filled with corpses.
- The execution of civilians at an unidentified location in the German-occupied eastern territories.
- A German policeman shoots individual Jewish women who remain alive in the ravine after a mass execution of Jews from the Mizocz ghetto.
After the Killing
- German police look through the clothing of people killed during a shooting action, presumably at Babi Yar.
- Two Women Talking to a Member of an Einsatzgruppe While POWs Exhume Bodies from the Babi Yar Ravine.
- The remains of shoes and clothing of people killed in the ravine at Babi Yar.
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