Soldiers from unidentified units of Einsatzgruppe (mobile killing squad) C look
through the possessions of Jews massacred at Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev.
Soviet Union, September 29-October 1, 1941.
Soldiers from unidentified units of Einsatzgruppe (mobile killing squad) C look
through the possessions of Jews massacred at Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev.
Soviet Union, September 29-October 1, 1941.
I read Babi Yar in the mid 80s or thereabouts. I stayed up nights until I finished it.
I was never the same after reading it; I still often think of what I read in that book. At the same time I also read as many books about the camps and deaths as I could find in my teeny local library - Treblinka, Sobibor, Anus Mundi, Dora - I am sure there were more.
I stayed up many nights reading them all.
When I finished with them, my over-riding thought was:
It WILL Happen again, because people are no better, they are worse.