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TIIIODTIIIN ISRAELITE
Friday, September 16, 1966
USSR Documentary Bares Truth
Soviets Change Tune
On Babi Yar Massacre
NEW YORK (WUP)—A new
Soviet documentary novel, writ
ten by the Soviet writer Anatoly
Kuznetsov, discloses the full
truth of the Babi Yar Nazi mas
sacre of tens of thousands of
Jews contradicting a previous
Russian contention, advanced in
the USSR when Khrushchev was
Premier, that the victims in
cluded Ukrainians and Russians
as well as Jews.
N. Y. Times correspondent
Raymond H. Anderson, reporting
from Moscow gives a full
account of the documentary, '
the first part of which, he says,
was printed in the latest issue of
Yumost, a Soviet youth maga
zine widely circulated through
out the Soviet Union.
Declaring that Mr. Kuznetsov
depicts “a harsh and detailed ac
count of the massacre” in the
Kiev ravine, Anderson notes that
the Russian author was “12 years
old when the Germans occupied
Kiev, his home town, on Septem
ber 21, 1941. A week later, all of
Kiev’s Jews were ordered to as
semble at its northern edge. Most
of them believed that they were
to be resettled in another area
away from the war zone. The
sound of machine guns echoing
from Babi Yar dispelled the il
lusion. The slaughter went on for
two days.”
Anderson
further
notes
that
Kuznetsov,
“in describing
the
entry of
German
troops
into
Kiev, acknowledges that some of
the older residents, hostile to the
Bolshevik regime, welcomed the
invaders with traditional offerings
of bread and salt . . . The first
sign of the coming terrorism, the
writer says, was the appearance
of posters playing on Ukrainian
nationalist sentiments. They said:
‘Jews, Poles and Russians are the
worst enemies of the Ukraine’.
“Then, on September 28, an
nouncements were put up
throughout Kiev ordering ‘all the
Jews of Kiev and its surround
ings’ to assemble the following
day near Babi Yar at 8 A M.
The announcement instructed
Jews to bring their documents,
money, valuables and warm
clothing. ‘Any Jew who does not
comply with this order and is
apprehended in another area will
be shot,’ the announcement warn
ed.
“Long before dawn the next
day,” the Times writer cites
Kuznetsov, “the streets of Kiev
were filled with thousands of
Jews carrying babies and bun
dles of possessions and helping
the old and feeble to reach Babi
Yar before the deadline. Rumors
swept through the crowd that
execution awaited the Jew's, but
most of them expected to be put
on trains and removed from the
combat area.
“At the edge of Babi Yar, re
lated Mr. Kuznetsov, who tagged
along part of the way at the rear
of the crowd, German troops
with machine guns checked doc
uments. Jews were passed
through the cordon. Ukrainians or
Russians accompanying them
w'ere turned back.
“As the staccato sound of
machine guns broke through the
morning air, the Jews realized
that they were being herded to
death. German troops and
Ukrainian policemen collaborat
ing with the occupants forced the
Jews to undress and move to the
edge of long pits. There squads
of machine-gunners shot them in
the back.
“One Jewish woman, Dina
Prochineheva, now working in
the Kiev Puppet Theatre, escaped
the bullets and managed to crawl
out of the grave at night. Years
later she told Mr. Kuznetsov of
the Germans’ initial effort to sort
out Ukrainians and Russians.
‘Sit over there with those peo
ple,’ a policeman told her when
she denied that she was Jewish.
‘We are shooting just Jews and
those people will be allowed to
leave.’ How’ever. the woman said,
a German officer came along
and said: ‘Shoot all of them im
mediately. If one of them gets
out of here and spreads the word
in the city, not a single Jew will
show up tomorrow’.”
Times writer Anderson con
cludes that Kuznetsov's account
of the massacre reflects a new
attitude in the Soviet Union
about the Babi Yar atrocities.
“Five years ago,” he says “Yev
geny Yevtushenko was denounc
ed for a poem that was dedicated
to the Jewish victims and criti
cized the absence of a monument
at .the site. Yevtusherko was as
sailed for suggesting that linger
ing anti-Semitism in the Soviet
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