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Photograph from the Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

A member of an Einsatzgruppe speaks with two women at the top of what is presumably the ravine at Babi Yar. Soviet POWs in the ravine are busy exhuming the bodies of the thousands of Jews, Gypsies, and Soviet POWs killed there in the previous two years. (August 19, 1943)

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