Review: Time to remember
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2013
I don't give this five stars because it was so fabulous, but because it tells a much more complete story of one of the most horrific centers of death, apart from the known Death Camps.  There were only 14 survivors from the prisoners used by the Nazis to dig up the bodies from the ravine and endeavor to burn the evidence of mass slaughter.  Testimony, of these men was given initially to Soviet investigators.  For decades these testimonies were not readily shared and even once revealed were not given full credence because of obvious propagandizing within the testimonies by investigators.  Known before this account was the nearly 34K Jews of Kiev slaughtered at the ravine, followed by nearly 20K Soviet POWs.  But the massacres didn't end there.  That is the horror and witness in this work.  A must read for anyone who wants to know more about the Holocaust by bullets hitherto under-acknowledged and largely unremembered because of the years of silence behind the Iron Curtain.  The Soviets have some reason to state that the Nazi pogrom was a pogrom against all Soviets.  The death toll at Babi Yar reflects how they drew that conclusion.  Readers need to draw their own...