62—Friday, April 21, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
19-E—BUSINESS PROPERTY t 50—BUSINESS CARDS
FOR SALE
INTERIOR, exterior, painting. Clean
and neat. Also small carpentry work.
Free estimates. 542-3270, after 6.
Store on
LARKINS MOVING CO.
Livernois
Babi Yar Terror Revealed in Kuznetzov's
Books and in Letter From One of Survivors
younger one ran away from
captivity and made his way home.
At the gate he was shot. My fa-
ther, mother and sister were shot
in Babi Yar—I saw that myself.
I ran away from Yar twice, ran
away from the Gestapovites twice,
ran away from the gendarmerie,
ran after having been in prison
for 28 days. I spent the nights
among the ruins, in basements, in
attics, in dust-holes—hungry, half-
naked, sick, with serious wounds
(not only those of the heart)
caused by the blows of rifle butts,
and beatings that were almost
fatal . . . In spite of my terrible
state I did not weep, did not
groan, did not wail with the pain.
How stony I was then. But now
the slightest trifle upsets me and
the tears come rolling down.
Household and
Office Furniture
Nr. 7 Mi. Over 6,000 sq. ft. of
busy work area. 60' front win-
dow display. Centrally Air
Cond. Ideal for any business.
Will sell cheap. Easy terms.
Ask for MR. SHOOK.
LICENSED MOVERS
PROFESSIONALS
894-4587
GROSS REALTY
DI 2-1300
SPRAY-ROLLER pa i ntin g. One-day
service. Daniel. 821-7542.
Wall Paper Is My Business
My Only Business
If you want professional results
Call John Lepine
836-4953
Doctor's Bldg.
1 PAINTING, paperhanging. interior
UN 4.0326, UN 2-3873 after 6:30.
Coe, ('link. II offices with
large Reception Rm., over
2230 ft. Gas ht. and centr. air
cond. Lots of parking. Wy-
oming.7 Mi. area. Ask for
MR. 51100K.
FURNITURE refinished and
Free estimates. UN 4-3547.
repaired.
JULIUS ROSS MOVING CO.
GROSS REALTY
DI 2-1300
By Hour or Flat Rate
Local and Long Distance Packing, stor-
age. pianos, appliances, nousehold furn-
,shings.
8829 Northend—Ferndale
543 - 4832
I. SCHWARTZ. All kinds of carpenter
work. We specialize in rec. rooms. BR
3-4826, LI 5-4035.
Medical Bldg.
FOR BETTER wall washing, call James
Russell. One day service. TO 6-4005.
326 Belmont.
Busy Chide v../11 offices, 2
arc soundproof, over 2,200 sq.
ft. cent. air cond., newly
decorated, ample parking on
7 Mi. .nr. Meyers. Ask for
MR. 51100K.
BOB'S carpet and furniture cleaning.
Free estimates. LI 8.7136.
MACLIN Janitorial Service. Basement
and recreation room floors scrubbed
and waxed. KE 2-1692.
GROSS REALTY
«DI 2-1300
57—FOR SALE: HOUSEHOLD
GOODS AND FURNISHINGS
18 CU. FT. Kelvinator freezer. Perfect
condition. EL 3-3221.
61 — GARAGE FOR RENT
30 - A — INSTIRUCTIONS
lI,CAR GARAGE for rent for storage.
BAR.MITZVN. Hebrew, Bible, Yiddish, UN 3-3678.
English; exprrienced teacher. 342-9254.
MATHEMATtCS tutoring. High school -
Bi--PETS
teacher. 13S.. M.S. degrees. 17 years
experience—Modern mathematics. 353-
POODLE, AKC. Pocket size. White fe-
3362.
male. Only one. Complete poodle
grooming. LI 7-7150.
30-B—INSTitUCTIONS WANTED
NEW 15131IGRANT looks for English
teacher. Nearr•Me2.ers. Phone evenings. 1
DI 1-0755.
31—TRANSPORTATION
CARS TO BE DRIVEN
To Philadelphia', New York City,
Seattle, Florida, Utah, California,
Texas) Ari4ona, etc. Also drivers
furnished •tia drive your car any-
where.
Insured; Driveway System
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yiE 1-0621
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Enroll now! Coll Mr. Galperin,
LI 8-1500 for opp't.
B. F. CHAMBERLAIN
REAL ESTATE CO.
WANTED—Teacher for Jewish Religi•
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ber.
40-A—EMPLOYMENT WANTED
OFFERING 20 YEARS OF
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48—COLLECTION SERVICE
ANYONE OWE YOU MONEY?
You pay only for results. We
collect all types of debts, back
bad checks — retail —
personal.
rent
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KE 7-5050'
Israeli Consumers Buy
Twice as Much Since '53
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Per-
capita consumption in Israel has
more than doubled in the real
terms between 1953 and 1965, ac-
cording to the Economic Review.
Expenditure on furniture and
household goods was up almost
fourfold. Clothing, personal effects
and entertainment are up two and
one-half times, but outlay on food
has not even doubled, rising by 70
per cent. These figures are given
in a study completed by Yaacov
Parush, of the Bank of Israel.
Two factors influenced the
change in expenditure patterns,
incomes and prices. Food ac-
counted for 41 per cent of total
consumption expenditure in 1953,
and only 30 per cent in 1965, for
two reasons. Hunger has to be
satisfied whatever one's income,
so greater earnings do not yield
a proportionate increase in food
consumption. Secondly, the price
of food rose by 10 per cent less
than average prices.
The price of goods in general
rose less than the average index
figure—clothing and furniture by
30 per cent less. The cost of serv-
ices, which are labor-intensive,
rose more steeply.
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'counters.
The USSR Novosti Press Agency has released this photo
showing Dina Pronicheva and her Kievite friends at the site where
a monument is to be erected in tribute to the victims of the Nazi
slaughter at Babi Yar.
Since the actual revelation of
the Bahl Yar massacre, the Soviet
authorities, for unknown reasons,
kept tourists from the spot of the
horrible tragedy. Even when it
had to be admitted that 200,000
people were butchered on that
spot near Kiev, authorities tried to
divert attention from it and com-
mented that not Jews alone but
Russians, Ukrainians, others, also
were murdered there.
It was especially when Yevgeny
Yevtushenko published his poetic
Babi Yar indictment in 1961 that
worldwide attention was drawn to
the murderous episode of the last
war.
Yevtushenko's poem challenged
the attention of the Russian peo-
ple with his opening words, "No
monument stands over Babi Yar,"
with the emphatic concluding line,
"I am a true Russian!" which is
Preceded with the declaration:
"The 'Internationale,' let it
thunder when the last anti-
Semite on earth is buried for-
ever."
But there has just taken place
a change in attitude. The Soviet
Union recently announced that a
monument to the victims of
fascism is to be erected at Babi
Yar. And a novel, "Babi Yar," by
Anatoly Kuznetsov, has been pub-
lished. giving an account of the
Babi Yar outrage. The novel has
been published in the Soviet youth
magazine. Yunost. It is now out in
an English translation published
by Dial Press (750 3rd, NY 17).
The editor and translator for "Cur-
rent Digest of the Soviet Press,
Jacob Guralsky, has made the ex-
cellent translation for Dial. The
book contains a series of impres-
sive, deeply moving and appro-
priate drawings by S. Brodsky.
a
cause he was not Jewish the young
boy who now authored the Babi
Yar work escaped with his life
and he is now able to relate how
acts of resistance against the
Nazis in Kiev brought about the
retaliation—the mass murder.
Naming German generals who
conducted the pillage and the mur-
ders, Kuznetsov's story is a com-
pilation of facts that prove hair-
raising even to those who already
know the Babi Yar history.
*
Babi liar, the ravine on the
outskirts of Kiev, was chosen as
the execution ground for 50,000
Jews who were murdered and
buried there. The Russian account
is that 150,000 more—Ukrainians,
Russians. Poles—were executed
afterward and buried in that mass
grave.
Kuznetsov kept a record of what
had occurred. He was spared by
the Germans and some took him
into their confidence and he was
able to retain the facts about the
brutalities, remembering the
names of the leaders of the per-
petrated crime and describing the
collaboration of a ruthless and
heartless invading army.
* •
A supplementary document
about the Babi Yar crime has just
been released to The Jewish News
by Novosti Press Agency, through
the Soviet Embassy in Washing-
ton. It contains a letter from one
of the witnesses to the Kuznetsov
story, Dina Pronicheva, a Jewish
woman who was miraculously
saved from the Nazi butchery. Her
husband, a Russian, was tortured
by the Gestapo. She now lives and
works in Kiev. She had written to
the Russian Jewish writer, Yefim
Litvin.
Making public her letter, Litvin
Appearing in its complete form
as the novel was published in recalled these lines from Kuznet-
sov's
"Sabi Yar":
Russia, Kuznetzov's story is vital,
it is unique in many respects and
"Dina glanced down and grew
it has the value of an historical
dizzy, it seemed so high up to
record. In fact, it is more history
her. Down below was a sea of
than novel, although it was pub-
bloody bodies . . . When every-
lished in Russia as a novel.
one had been driven onto the
ledge, one of the Germans left
The author was 12 years old
the bon-fire, took a machine-
when he witnessed the Nazi in-
gun, and began to shoot. The
vasion of Russia and the carnage
thought
flashed through her
in -Kiev. He heard the shots and
mind: 'Now I . . . Now . .
the cries of horror and made it
She did not wait. With clenched
his life's aim to gather the evi-
fists she hurled herself down.
dence and to preserve it for pos-
As she struck bottom she felt
terity as an indictment of Nazi
neither the blow nor any pain.
brutality.
Warm blood splashed over her,-
Revealed also is the inhumanity
and
blood flowed down her face,
of others who collaborated, and
as if she bad fallen into a bath
as a memoir of what had occurred
of
blood.
She lay with her arms
Kuznetzov's narrative assumes an
spread out, her eyes closed."
important role in the literature
• • •
about the holocaust that continues
to grow in immensity.
Dina's letter states:
"Besides me there are no peo-
Kuznetsov's "Babi Yar" includes ple who crawled—literally—out of
the complete text of Yevtushenko's Babi Yar in 1941.
"I had two brothers. The older
poem. It contains evidence offered
by witnesses to the massacre.
one perished at the frOrit: 'The
• • •
'
"My husband, Victor Pronichev,
was at the front. He was taken
prisoner, but ran away and came
home when I was already in hid-
ing in Darnitsa, which is beyond
Kiev, on the other side of the
Dnieper. After the mass shooting
of the Jews, the Germans went
to the apartments and if they dis-
covered, as in my case, that the
husband was Russian, they shot
the children just the same for the
mother was a "Jew"—a "Jude."
A policeman grabbed my son, who
was only two years and three
months old at the time, and took
him out into the yard in order to
shoot him. My husband begged the
policeman not to touch the child,
saying that I was to come in the
evening and then they could take
both of us. They agreed to leave
the child there until the evening.
When the police left, my husband
wrapped Vovoch,ka up in paper,
tied it with rope, like a package,
and brought him to me in Darnitsa.
For four months I hid myself and
my little boy. In the fifth month
the Gestpovites came after me.
I managed to flee, and I asked a
Russian woman, Natasha, to take
my son somewhere. But the police
arrested her together with my son.
At the gendarmerie they checked
up on the child to see if he was
Jewish or not. Natasha assured
them that he was a Ukrainian.
They beat Natasha and Vova so
teribly that Vova became dumb.
Then they released them. Natasha
took Vova to Kiev and placed him
in a child's home, telling them she
did not know whose child he was,
that she had picked him up in
the street.
"I found him on March 13, 1944.
He was called Vitali Neizvestny
(Unknown—Ed.) then. He recov-
ered his power of speech. Vladimir
(Vova—Ed.) is now an officer in
the Soviet Army.
". . . My husband. Victor Proni-
chev, was arrested because they
did - not find either me or our
child. He was brutally tortured in
the Gestapo.
"When Vova was carried out
into the yard to be shot, a neigh-
bor grabbed my daughter, who
was then four years and three
months old, and hid her in a
closet. The child lived there for
two weeks, but then someone in-
formed the police about her. It
was necessary to take the child
out and hide her in a shed in such
a way that she would not be dis-
covered. In the morning a friend
of my husband's recognized Lido-
chka. He took her to a children's
home and there I found her when
the Red Army liberated Kiev.
"My Lidochka is now the mother
of two children. Her husband is a
scientific worker and Lidochka
herself works as a radio assem-
bler.
"I am an actress and work with
a puppet theater. I receive many
letters from all over the Soviet
Union, and they are all so affec-
tionate, so touching that I now
feel the whole world is my
friend . . ."
—Novosti PreSs AgericY (APN)