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' Russians Unearth Layers of Bodies Piled Deep In4Baby YaP Pit By Nazis in Kiev MassacreIBy Henry Shapiro ' United Press StaffKIEV, Russia (Via Moscow, Nov. 28)—'There is a place in. Kiev called the Baby Yar.Before the nazis.eame, it was a peaceful place—The Wom'en's Ravine.Today, it is the name of a Russian sorrow and a Hussian hatred.is a curse upon the Germans who hurled in whole families until there were 60,000____70,000 perhaps even 100,000 civilian' bodies in j the Yar; VBaby Yari'Stirred; the Sandtf stood by the pit and stirred ! sand which covers the mass. Only a little stirring uncovered strands; of bloodstained human hairj fragments, of human skulls and other bones, children’s:' shoes. ^Tear. th(* end of September- in guerrillas stole into Kievlt; anddynamited ’the German eonwnan-’ han’t headquarters, starling' fires-ahd/damaging buildings. Germansspread 'regp'rts that Jews were de-'stroying-the'cit'y.On-'-Se^mber -28 notices in the^streets summoned- all Jews; com-4. rounists and Russian officials to report-for “evacuation. They were instructed to bring clothes, valuables and. provisions.Driven to RavineA procession of 63,000 was driven to -the ravine.. There were old men, women and- children'. They were stripped of their belongings even the clothing they wore, lined up at the brink of the Yar and machine gunned. Then the’t bodies ' were thrown into the pit; . .It took three ' days to complete the slaughter. Other executions followed and the bodies were tossed into the Yar, which was not nearly so .deep'now; The'successive layers of bodies ^were covered with sand; :Vllkys, Ostrovaky and Davidov spend more than.a.year in Jibe, military prison camp near the Yar. Some 25,000 Russians jwere taken:out ■ of the camp and massacredat the execution grounds. ...' Vilkys skid: Last August 14,100 prisoners, all officers, were taken to Baby Yar, we were lowered into the-ravine---and told to strip to the waist.“We dragged the bodies with iron hooka 30 or 40 yards to incinerator's. There were four'incinerators. They were ' the height . of a two-story: •house. They were made of iron fences of t-he Jewish cemetery.The bodies were put on iron | .grates, one , layer of bodies alternating with- a layer ,o£ kerosene-soaked wood. Each -contained almost 4000 bodies.“Some prisoners were made to stoke the fires. During-the operation, _SS officers arrived frequently in trucks with, prisoners whohad . been asphyxiated. They also brought some prisoners who wereunconscious but alive and they, too,were thrown into ■ the incinerators.Prisoners who weakened white working on the incerators were shot oii the spot while the Germans kept cursing .even the corpses, call* rag them, swine a,nd-*dogs. .. On September 25 we knew it was turn,to ^o, so we would hot bewitnesses/’•They, decided on - adash for freedom*. They - overpowered theirguard at night and ran to the fields and ravines. All but those three with whom ■ i talked were moweddown, by machine sruns*
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Ogden Standard Examiner
Ogden, Utah, US
Mon, Nov 29, 1943
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