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September 29, 1943: 292 inmates of the #Syrets concentration camp, Kyiv, Ukraine, rose up against their German captors. For 6 weeks, the prisoners had been working to destroy the evidence of the massacre at Babi Yar, when the SS murdered nearly 34000 people over two days.

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September 29, 1943: The 292 Jewish inmates of the #Syrets concentration camp, located in Kyiv, Ukraine, rose up against their German captors as their work assignment was drawing to a close. For six weeks, the prisoners had been directed to destroy the evidence of the massacre at Babi Yar, when the Germans murdered nearly 34,000 people over two days, on September 29 and 30, 1941.
The group had labored at excavating and burning the bodies of the victims, then grinding and scattering the cremains. As it became clear that they, too, would be executed when the work was finished, the inmates, led by Vladimir Davydov, staged a mass race to the prison walls at dawn. The German guards, who delayed firing their machine guns until they realized what was happening, killed 280 of 292, but Davydov and eleven other men were able to escape, and would later reveal what had happened.
Photo: Syrets concentration camp.

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