The Survivor of Babi Yar Massacre

David Ayzenberg who was born in 1926 Kiev and was living there during the war years recalls how he together with other Kiev Jews came to a Jewish cemetery near the Babi Yar ravine following German order. Ayzenberg depicts horrors he witnessed there. He tells how he and other Jews were driven to the ravine, how witnessing all the horror he lost consciousness and came to himself only in the ravine underneath the dead bodies and how after several days who crawled out of the ravine and escaped.
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[@peterlombard2292]

It is remarkable that people like David Ayzenberg have had the strength and courage to recount such horrific, heinous and contemptible acts of depravity. For them to relive this and give testimony like they do for our sakes in order that it may not happen again demands our heartfelt gratitude.

[@carsten9168]

Just imagine the terrible, searing trauma and shock that this brave man as a little child then along with the 35,000 innocent Jews murdered in Kievsky district, Ukraine had endured at the hands of cruel, cowardly Nazis ? When people complain of Soviet Red Army, US, French and British, etc. atrocities committed against Nazi soldiers from 1943 and German civillians in 1945, can you really fault the snarling rage and fury especially of the Russians ?

[@KienyejiChicken]

The Jews went through so much hell. I wonder how the survivors lived with so much pain after the war. I couldn't bear that, even if I survived.

[@filipzawistowski4615]

I cried my eyes out when he started crying :( God forgive us for what we have done.

[@SrLouise]

so much horror & pain ... all undeserved ... i am so sorry

[@mauriceanton]

This was hell......

[@robertblack4107]

I am so sorry and understand why Israel is so defensive .........

[@ayiza8511]

its still so hard to understand that this happend. Poor guy the horrific scene he is describing seems like a movie scene like something that could not have happend in real life. But then you see his face and i still can not understand how these men could mericelessly kill so many people children toddlers

[@JoseVasquez-ii4pz]

I can't watch this without crying but there is a GOD who one day will bring completely justice for all

[@juliatube2007]

The events he described took place on September 29-30 1941, not December.

[@lonnekekalf7471]

Omg!! No one in their right mind could do something like that

[@kristine6996]

Everything the Jewish people went through during years and years and years was Hell. And stil nowadays They are losing members of their families. This has got to stop !!! Now ! It is a miracle They survived, and how They survived ... with dignity, humour and lovingkindness 🇮🇱

[@helenmullane3547]

so so sad😧😢😱

[@isha9275]

Lucky they didn't do anything to the corpses while he was underneath them

[@R1GAMBLER]

😞

[@3catmom844]

how horrible!!!!