Anatoly Kuznetsov, who witnessed the Nazi occupation of Kiev as a child, drew on his diary and decades of research to create this documentary novel about Babi Yar, the ravine where Nazi forces murdered 33,771 Jews in two days in September 1941. The book combines Kuznetsov's own memories with testimony from other survivors and perpetrators, historical documents, and imaginative reconstruction to create a comprehensive account of one of the Holocaust's largest single massacres. Kuznetsov describes the confusion of the occupation's first days, the roundup of Kiev's Jews, and the systematic slaughter at the ravine, which continued as a killing site for two years. He also documents Soviet suppression of Babi Yar's memory, including the attempted construction of a sports complex over the mass grave. When Kuznetsov defected to the West in 1969, he was able to publish a restored version including material that Soviet censors had removed. The book stands as both historical testimony and literary achievement, capturing the texture of daily life under occupation and the incomprehensible reality of genocide. Readers will find here an essential document of the Holocaust's Eastern European dimension, often overshadowed by camps like Auschwitz but no less devastating in its toll.