Babi Yar, in the suburbs of Kiev.  This is the site of the most famous massacre of Jews and others by the Nazis in Ukraine.  About 100,000 were executed and dumped in the ravine ("yar" means "ravine") of which one lip is shown here .  Today the ravine is part of large park where people walk and jog.  This menorah was erected only in 1991 to mark the 50th anniversary of the massacre.  The site is not marked on many maps and there is no sign marking the entrance from the street.

The official, Soviet, Babi Yar monument which is visited by school groups and featured in guidebooks.  It was built in 1974.   The text on the monument says, "Here is 1941-43, 100,000 citizens of the city of Kiev and POW's were shot by the German fascist occupation."  The statue shows workers and resistance fighters.  It is near the center of a huge artificial ditch in the shape of a 5-pointed star and is about a half a mile from the actual ravine where the killings took place.  According to Ben Frank's A Travel Guide to Jewish Russia & Ukraine, in creating the monument, Kiev's main Jewish cemetary was bulldozed.