The memorial to the 4/4-bis mine in Donetsk experienced its second birth. Recently updated complex, under the patronage of the Office of Public Security of Donetsk Regional Police, was presented to the veterans of war and residents
of the city.
This unusual monument to the victims of fascism is called "Donetsk Babiy Yar". The pit of "4/4-bis Kalynivka" mine located in the Kalininsky district in Donetsk, became a place of execution of more than 75 thousand people.
75 thousand is not a precise number, said an employee of the museum "Donbass Unbowed" Galyna Brokarenko at the opening ceremony of the reconstructed memorial: Prisoners of war, activists of underground movement, Jews (whole families) were brought here from all over the region, starting from the first days of occupation of Donbass in October 1941 and till September 1943. According to a special forensic examination, about 100 thousand people could have been thrown to the mine. In fact, the approximate number of people buried was calculated according to the simplified formula: the volume of
the pit with bodies was divided by the average mass of the body. But, according to witnesses, children and even babies were also thrown to the pit. The layers of corpses were covered with caustic soda, which accelerates the
decomposition of bodies. And before leaving the city, the Germans blew up the pit at a depth of 55 meters.
In the year 1981, a memorial was opened at the site of the mine. In time it decayed, and its territory was littered.
Two months were spent on the repair of plates and the gate, painting, cleaning of territory from the bottles, cigarette packs and other litter, which the thankless descendants had been throwing directly into the pit, said the Chief
of the State Security Service of Donetsk Regional Police Yuri Sagaidak: We think that the territory of the memorial will become a place where our young staff can take the oath, to hold commemorative ceremonies.
All those present laid flowers at the monument, and the memory of the dead was honoured with a minute of silence and a solemn salute.

Источник: facts.kiev.ua