Layers of Memory in Kuznetsov’s and Trubakov’s Babi Yar Narratives
Journal: Eastern European Holocaust Studies
Year: 2022

Abstract This article examines two memoirs of authors who indirectly witnessed the horrendous crimes committed by Nazi Einsatzgruppen squads in Babi Yar where more than 33,000 of the Jewish inhabitants of Kiev were brutally murdered on 29–30 September 1941: Anatoli Kuznetsov’s Babi Yar: A Document in the Form of a Novel and Ziama Trubakov’s The Riddle of Babi Yar: The True Story Told by a Survivor of the Mass Murders in Kiev, 1941–1943 . Starting from Kuznetsov’s final remarks on the power of me