Larochka Ratmanski

According to the site , Larochka Ratmanski was one of the victims of the following atrocity: On 19 September 1941, the Germans occupied Kiev, and the Jews were subjected to abuse and persecution from the first days of the occupation. Buildings in central Kiev being used by the German authorities were reduced to rubble by landmines laid by Soviet sappers, and the Germans blamed the city's Jews for this act. On 28 September, the Germans hung signs throughout Kiev instructing the Jews to report at a collection point the following day. They were ordered to bring documents, clothes, money and valuables with them, and warned that failure to report would result in execution. The next day, the Jews gathered at the appointed place, and were marched to the Babi Yar ravine. In the course of two days, 29-30 September (Yom Kippur Eve), 33,771 Jewish men, women and children were murdered at Babi Yar by Einsatzgruppen C soldiers with the assistance of local collaborators. Jews who managed to escape the massacre in September and were discovered in the ensuing months, were brought to Babi Yar and murdered. Larochka was only four years old when she was one of the victims of this massacre.