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I*(|e Two 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 GREETINGS Virginia Hilan Iiarbor Shop 1004 Virginia Ave., N.E. GRACIOUS HOLIDAY GREETINGS WEEKS HARPER METHOD BEAUTY SALON 75 Ponce de Leon Avenue Near Fox Theater Same location for 24 years Scalp treatments for men & women TR. 2-5121 Our Sincere Greetings COIFFEURS BY DONALD 884 Peachtree St., N.E. TR. 6-4091 A Very Happy Healthy and Prosperous New Year to our many friends and customers Arnold Gross Phone For Prompt Delivery 231-1340 3112 Piedmont Road, N.E. 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