"No monument stands over Babi Yar." From the Poem "Babi Yar" by Yevgeny Yevtushenko Velvele-Valentin Krayz was just six years old when his father fell in battle defending Kiev, Ukraine. Ultimately the city was conquered by Germany. On 28 September 1941, just days after the conquest of the city, the Jews, including Velvele and his family, were ordered to assemble at the edge of the ravine by the old Jewish cemetery in Kiev. When they arrived, German soldiers and the Ukrainian collaborators forced