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Syrets concentration camp information


Kiev-West
Concentration camp
Luftwaffe aerial photograph of Babi Yar, taken 26 September 1943 (shortly after the destruction of graves was complete).
Other namesSyrez, Syrezky, or Syretskij
Known forA Sonderaktion 1005 action to remove evidence of the Babi Yar massacres
LocationBabi Yar, a ravine near Kyiv, Ukraine (nowadays inside the city)
Operated byEinsatzgruppen, Ordnungspolizei, Ukrainian Auxiliary Police
CommandantErich Ehrlinger, Paul Radomski, Paul Blobel, and others
Number of inmates327, including 100 Jews

The Kiev-West (in German sources) or Syrets (Ukrainian: Сирець) was a Nazi concentration camp or (arbeitserziehungslager – correctional labour camp) established in 1942 in Kyiv's western neighborhood of Syrets [uk], part of Kyiv since 1799. The toponym was derived from a local small river. Some 327 inmates of the KZ Syrets (among them 100 Jews) were forced to remove all traces of mass murder at Babi Yar.[1]

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