Editing Babi Yar (section)

=== Number of people who were murdered ===
Estimates of the total number of people who were murdered at Babi Yar during the Nazi occupation vary. At the [[Nuremberg trials]] in 1946, Soviet prosecutor [[Lev Smirnov]] claimed that approximately 100,000 corpses were lying in Babi Yar; he made this estimate using documents which were published by the [[Extraordinary State Commission]] which the Soviets set up in order to investigate Nazi crimes after the liberation of Kyiv in 1943.<ref name="Spector" /><ref>Materials of the Nuremberg Trial in Russian: {{lang|ru|Нюрнбергский процесс, т. III. M., 1958. с. 220–221.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Iosif |last=Kremenetsky |url=http://shoa.com.ua/php/content/view/84/9/ |title="Babi Yar – September 1941" |access-date=16 May 2007 |archive-date=29 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083508/http://shoa.com.ua/php/content/view/84/9/ |url-status=dead }} {{Cite web |url=http://shoa.com.ua/php/content/view/84/9/ |title=Шоа. Информационно-аналитический портал - Бабий Яр - сентябрь 1941 |access-date=16 May 2007 |archive-date=29 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083508/http://shoa.com.ua/php/content/view/84/9/ |url-status=dead }} {{in lang|ru}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://nurnbergprozes.narod.ru/011/6.htm |title=Из Сообщения Чрезвычайной Государственной Комиссии о Разрушениях и зверствах, Совершенных Немецко – Фашистскими Захватчиками в Городе Киеве |trans-title=From the Communication of the Extraordinary State Commission on the Destruction and Atrocities Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders in the City of Kyiv |access-date=29 August 2007 |archive-date=6 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206193239/http://nurnbergprozes.narod.ru/011/6.htm |url-status=dead }} Нюрнбергский Процесс. Документ СССР-9. {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

In a recently published letter to the Israeli journalist, writer, and translator Shlomo Even-Shoshan which was dated 17 May 1965, [[Anatoly Kuznetsov]] commented on the Babi Yar [[wikt:atrocity|atrocity]]:

{{blockquote|In the two years that followed, Ukrainians, Russians, Gypsies and people of all nationalities were murdered in Babi Yar. The belief that Babi Yar is an exclusively Jewish grave is wrong... It is an international grave. Nobody will ever determine how many and what nationalities are buried there, because 90% of the corpses were burned, their ashes were scattered in ravines and fields.<ref name=shapoval>Yury Shapoval, [https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/history-and-i/defection-anatoly-kuznetsov "The Defection of Anatoly Kuznetsov"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113132258/http://www.day.kiev.ua/130699/ |date=January 13, 2009 }}, ''{{lang|uk|День}}'', 18 January 2005.</ref>}}