There is a fairly detailed  photograph of the ditch  at Babi Yar filled with
bodies.

It is from:

_Nazi Crimes in the Ukraine_
  edited by V.N. Nenisov and G.I. Changiuli (Doctors of Law)
  c. 1987,  Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
  Institute of State and Law
  Naukova Gumka Publishers, Kiev

The photograph shows a group of about 15 people in civilian
and military garb standing on the edge of a long trench perhaps
fifty feet or more in length. Lying in the trench are a great many
bodies side-to-side and on top of numerous  other bodies.
It is difficult to tell if the bodies are clothed or not but it is
probable that they have some clothes on.  In the far background is 
what might be an identifiable landmark. It appears to be a large
bridge over a ravine, or part of a very large building.

The text that accompanies the photograph reads:

"The excavation of a grave in Babi Yar in Kiev where thousands
of Soviet citizens had been shot by the Hitlerites, Kiev, 1944."

The photo is identified as being No. 2-46031 from the Central
State Archive of the Cine and Photodocuments of the Ukranian
SSR.

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