raisa maistrenko survived babin yar, one of world war ii's most notorious massacres, when over 30,000ews were murdered on the outskirts of kiev. although she was just three years old when she first witnessed the misery of war, she remembers. >> raisa maistrenko did not walk this road to babi yar for many decades, but after the monument for the murdered children was erected, the dance instructor has come here repeatedly with her pupils. >> my words are always, this monument could have been for me, but i survived. >> in the early autumn of 1941, nazi germany's army, the wehrmacht, captured kiev. soon after, some bombs exploded in the center of the city, killing german soldiers. >> special units have been ordered to fight the fires and secure the strategic roads. >> the ss and german and ukrainian police ordered all the city's jews to assemble on september 29th and to bring only essential belongings. a kilometer-long line of people was marched off, including the three-year-old raisa and her family. raisa: i saw the grown-ups' legs. i called them white grandpas. they only had underwear on