Holocaust. Truth about Babyn Yar. (Part ten)

Holocaust. Truth about Babyn Yar.

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(Part ten)

UKRAINIAN UNDERGROUND DESCRIBED THE GERMAN TERROR, BUT DIDN’T MENTION THE MASS ANNIHILATION OF KYIVANS

In the first issue of the leading periodical “Ideya I chyn” (“Idea and rank”) of Kyivan Bandera underground, the article “Heroes of our days” the authors named all the losses of Ukrainian nationalists till the November 1942, including even all the supporters of Melnyk together with poetess Olena Teliga. However, they also didn’t say a word about the annihilation of 100 000 of Kyivan inhabitants in Babyn Yar or about the additional 95 000 victims in other parts of Kyiv.

The delegation of Melnyk’s supporters to “the capital of Ukraine and princely city” Kyiv headed by the professor of Cracow university Volodymyr Kubijovych described own life in Kyiv at the end of October 1941 in the series of articles in the weekly paper “Krakivski visti” (“Cracow news”). There, in particular, was mentioned that “Jews were driven out from the city”. One of the witnesses of that time Jaroslav Gajvas still keeps silence about what he has seen – probably because of the in fear of our “almighty immemorial neighbours”.

In the 10-volume “Encyclopedia of Ukraine” under the editorship of Prof. Kubijovych, published in 1955 - 89 by the Shevchenko society in Paris, there is no mention about Babyn Yar. But in the English language 5-volume version of "Encyklopedia оf Ukrаіnе", published in 1988 by Toronto university, Babyn Yar is named as the place of execution of 3 000 Jews. The number of other victims of Hitlerites in Babyn Yar was named as 150 000.

Of late years the NTSh (Schevchenko Scientific society) decided to “correct the mistake” of the back encyclopedia of Prof. Kubijovych. An editor of the 11^th – supplemental and that’s why Ukrainian language edition, printed in summer 1995 in Munich became Prof. Arkadij Zhukovskyj from Paris. The publishing geographical data point out that an article about Babyn Yar couldn’t be more impartial. Several years ago in France and Germany the laws, which prohibit doubting the scale of Jewish holocaust were passed. In Germany the 103 article of law provides from 3 months to 5 years of imprisonment for it, and the penalty is 30 000 dollars.

NTSh in Paris was acquainted with aerophotoes and linkage to Babyn Yar of 1991. Viktor Koptilov from Kyiv, who worked for 15 years in France for UNESCO and now is a lecturer in the state institute of oriental civilizationsin Paris, was charged with writing an article about Babyn Yar.

For not to be brought to trial and not to lose a work and pension, Prof. V.Koptilov without any explanation enlarged the number of Jewish victims to 100 000, however keeping silent about the Ukrainian victims of Cheka in Babyn Yar. The total number of perished he fixed 150 000 – 200 000 thousand.

Probably it is no coincidence, because when in 1992 the French scientific month paper Rеvue d’Histoire Revisioniste published an article about the exaggerated scale of “slaughter” in Babyn Yar, an article documented with aerophotographs of Kyiv, - the editor was punished pecuniary and the edition was closed. In the mean time the historical significance of the aerophotographs was remarked in the article of the “New York Times” of 1989 on the subject of the crimes of NKVD along the shoreline of the Dnieper and in the Katynsk forest in Byelorussia.

From the aerophotographs of Kyiv on the part of the ortodox cemetery, not used yet at that time (and now the terrain of the television tower and the military cemetery), is seen a row of new-made graves – about 2000 in general – mainly the victims of Hitlerism. The second, smaller row of graves (about 500 victims of NKVD of spring 1944) is seen beyond the fence of Syrets concentration camp.

This graves are 200 meters to the west far from the ravine Babyn Yar, where before 1933 hundred of thousands victims of famishments and terror of Cheka - NKVD. Over ten years ago on the place of Syrets camp and common graves the Syrets housing unit was erected.

(To be continued)