The Babi Yar ravine
September 29, 1941: Nazi SS officers kill 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar ravine outside Kyiv, Ukraine. It is believed to be the largest Nazi massacre to that point.
Other victims of massacres at the site included Soviet prisoners of war, Communists and Romani people. It is estimated that a total of between 100,000 and 150,000 people were murdered at Babi Yar during the German occupation.
The decision to murder all the Jews in Kyiv was made by the military governor, Generalmajor Kurt Eberhard; the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckein; and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch.
Eberhard was captured by U.S. authorities in November 1945, and detained in Stuttgart, Germany. He killed himself in custody on September 8, 1947. Jeckeln was convicted of war crimes by a Soviet military tribunal in Riga, Latvia, and executed on February 3, 1946. Rasch was indicted, but his case was held over due to Parkinson's disease putting his physical and mental health into decline. He was released in June 1948, and died on November 1.
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September 29, 1941 was a Monday. Baseball was between the end of its regular season and the World Series. Football was in midweek. The NBA hadn't been founded yet. And hockey was out of season. So there were no scores on this historic day.
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