Some 327 inmates of the KZ Syrets (among them 100 Jews) were forced to remove all traces of mass murder at Babi Yar.

[2] The camp was built in June 1942 at the request of Hans Schumacher [de], a Nazi police official and head of the Gestapo in Kyiv (see Auschwitz Trial), which he made to his superior Erich Ehrlinger.

The prisoners (women and men) were housed in wooden barracks and in dug-outs with doors and stairs leading down from the ground level to prevent them from freezing up in winter.

Sturmbannführer Paul Radomski ran a terror regime in the camp with the aid of Kommandant Anton Prokupek and a company of Sotniks.

[3] During the Sonderkommando 1005 exhumations, a group of prisoners secretly armed themselves with tools and scraps of metal they managed to find and conceal.

Martin Gilbert quotes historian Reuben Ainsztein [de]: ... in those half-naked men who reeked of putrefying flesh, whose bodies were eaten by scabies and covered with a layer of mud and soot, and of whose physical strength so little remained, there survived a spirit that defied everything that the Nazis' New Order had done or could do to them.

In an article for Newsweek in December 1943, Downs described Vilkis' account of the prisoner escape: However, even more incredible was the actions taken by the Nazis between August 19 and September 28 last.

The Germans meanwhile took a party to a nearby Jewish cemetery whence marble headstones were brought to Babii Yar [sic] to form the foundation of a huge funeral pyre.

The camp was subsequently demolished and in the 1950s and 1960s urban development began in the area, which included an apartment complex and a park.