Rare photos released of Babyn Yar, one of the Holocaust's largest massacres

• Published date: 30 September 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF

In an effort to remember the massacre and memorialize its victims, and to counter attempts at erasing and re-writing history, the National Library of Israel's Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People has recently released never-before-seen photos, part of the archive of Jewish engineer and activist Emmanuel (Amik) Diamant.

Some 35,000 Jews were murdered outside of Kiev on September 29-30, 1941 by the Nazis and their collaborators in one of the Holocaust's largest massacres. But until the 1960s, the tragic events of Babyn Yar (sometimes spelled "Babi Yar") were largely overshadowed by images of death camps and other Holocaust mass murders.

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The Library expressed hope that their collaboration with the Babyn Yar Holocaust...