Editing Babi Yar (section)

==Survivors==
[[File:Dina pronicheva trial big.jpg|thumb|[[Dina Pronicheva]] on the witness stand, 24 January 1946, at a Kyiv war-crimes trial of fifteen members of the German police responsible for the occupied Kyiv region]]

One of the most often-cited parts of [[Anatoly Kuznetsov]]'s documentary novel [[Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel|''Babi Yar'']] is the testimony of [[Dina Pronicheva]], an actress of the [[Kyiv Academic Puppet Theatre|Kyiv Puppet Theatre]], and a survivor.<ref name="Brandon">{{cite book|author1=Ray Brandon|title=The Shoah in Ukraine: history, testimony, memorialisation|author2=Wendy Lower|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-253-35084-8|page=12|author-link2=Wendy Lower}}</ref> She was one of those ordered to march to the ravine, to be forced to undress and then be shot. Jumping before being shot and falling on other bodies, she played dead in a pile of corpses. She held perfectly still while the Nazis continued to shoot the wounded or gasping victims. Although the SS had covered the mass grave with earth, she eventually climbed through the soil and escaped. Since it was dark, she had to avoid the torches of the Nazis finishing off the remaining victims still alive, wounded, and gasping in the grave. She was one of the very few survivors of the massacre and later related her story to Kuznetsov.<ref>"[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/heritage/episode8/documents/documents_13.html A Survivor of the Babi Yar Massacre] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314025912/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/heritage/episode8/documents/documents_13.html|date=2008-03-14}}," ''Heritage: Civilization and the Jews'' ([[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]]). Gilbert (1985): 204–205.</ref> At least 29 survivors are known.<ref>{{cite web|title=Рувим Штейн, чудом спасшийся с места казни: "Наверное, я настоящий умер там, в Бабьем Яре" Янина Соколовская (Киев) |trans-title=Reuben Stein, who miraculously escaped from the place of execution: "Probably, I really died there, in Babi Yar" |first=Янина (Yanina) |last=Соколовская (Sokolovskaya) |url=http://www.izvestia.ru/hystory/article3096753/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080217041238/http://www.izvestia.ru/hystory/article3096753/|archive-date=17 February 2008|access-date=17 February 2008}}</ref>

In 2006, [[Yad Vashem]] and other Jewish organisations started a project to identify and name the Babi Yar victims. However, so far, only 10% have been identified. Yad Vashem has recorded the names of around 3,000 Jews murdered at Babi Yar, as well as those of some 7,000 Jews from [[Kyiv]] who were murdered during [[the Holocaust]].{{cn|date=September 2022}}