13- cilai . Yar--Legcicy
orny's Sittful Role
of 'Terror—
A major Russian act of injustice about? Where they shot the Yids? of erecting a monument was drop-
has been, for many years, the im- And who said we had to put a ped. After Stalin's death, people
position of a blackout on informa- memorial up to some lousy Yids?' again started cautiously putting
tion regarding the Babi Yar crime.
"In fact, with the spread of gov- round the view that Babi Yar was
More than 70,000 Jews were ernment-inspired anti-Semitism be- in fact not just a Jewish grave
murdered by the Nazis in the Babi tween 1948 and 1953, the question and that there were three or four
Yar district of Kiev. It has been
established that Ukrainians colla-
borated in the crime, that Lithua-
nians shared in the guilt of perse-
E. ROSENBERG grandchildren's Jewish souls — if
cuting "Zhids"—the insulting term By DR. STUART
Note: Dr. Rosenberg, rabbi we Zionists seriously undertook to
applied to Jews. Russian Commu- of Editor's
Beth Tsedec Congregation of Toron•
nists were accused of having to. author of this article, has just com- build up a Jewish coastline from
another book, "Great Religions Tel Aviv north to Haifa, a stretch
blown up the town's monastery. pleted
the Holy Land, - to be published this of miles similar in geographical
They blamed it on the Germans as of
SP1171g
by McVrl tan dr,..aun,d
,cedS
.S teuart,
distance as Miami is from Palm
Toronto. Quid
part of the conspiracy to arou S e e
' : ;or Pitfirms and
Beach. (But, oh, what a difference
prejudices.
Holy Land visitors of alt faiths" in
in historical and cultural distance!)
Consistently the Communist r
I have great admiration and re- Imagine what would happen to us
-.gime imposed a censorship upo n spect
for committed Jews whose as Canadian and American Jews
the entire Babi Yar story becau se lives are
profoundly shaped by if we had a "second home" in
it wished to hide the hideous crim e their Jewisn loves and loyalties. Israel. We could change Jewish
in which Ukrainians were collahci 1 consider Zionists to be among history—dramatically change the
rators.
the most committed of Jews and' Jewish future.
A Kiev man, A. Anatoli Kits- for this reason I respect them very
Is this a task for Zionists? Well,
netsov, who escaped from Russia much. But I would earnestly hope isn't this what Zionists are. sup-
and now lives in London, ex- that the Zionist leadership would posed to be worrying about? How
posed the crimes, Wishing to be stop playing some of their old rec- to secure the Jewish future, per-
known only as A. Aisatoll, he ords and begin to ask themselves: sonally and -collectively? How to
wrote a book which was censored What now? Two negatives do not secure Israel's future, and inter-
by the Russian authorities when produce a positive: being "anti twine our lives in unbroken connec-
it was publishea in the USSR. anti-Semitism" does not produce tion with Israel's future.
Having witnessed the anti-Jewish Judaism. L think that we who are
If every major Jewish commu-
actions, the assistance that was Zionists ought now also to be tell- nity in North America would under-
given the Nazis by the Ukraini- ing ourselves, morning and eve- take a "Five-Year Program" to
ans, the Russian Indifference, he ning: important as these are — develop, build and sell a "second
told the story from notes he countering Arab propaganda, fight- home in Israel" to the many thou-
began to gather as a mere young-
sands of Jews who form their
ster of 7. The first book was cen- ing Russian lies and distortions, or loyal Zionist leadership corps,
sored. Now his uncensored work, even excelling in being "anti anti- couldn't that lead to one important
"Bahl Yar," issued by Farrar, Israel" — simply won't produce achievement Zionism should aspire
Straus and Giroux as "a docu. Zionism.
to, now—the securing of our Jewish
meat in the form of a novel,"
What will? What does Zionism lives by linking them personally to
contains all the basic facts as he require of us now? This is the real the land of Israel, itself?
incorporated them in his com- question we have to answer. What
U all that Jewish builders and
plete work, appearing in a trans. now? Many answers should be developers in North America have
talks from the Russian ably studied, argued, and some even created in the last 22 years
done by David Floyd.
acted on, if there is to be a serious alone—just since the birth of Israel
The new volume contains all of effort to transform what is sup- —were to be put together, the lands
the original text, which is present. posed to be a movement, from and the buildings would probably
ed in ordinary type, containing merely being an organization.
fill an area 10 times the size of
the material as published in the
I have one serious suggestion to Israel, and sustain a population
Russian Yunost In 1966. In heavier put forth. Just one, at this time. 20 times as large.
type appears the material that was And I wonder how many Zionists
Why shouldn't some of our in-
cut from the text by the censor. in Canada would be willing to genuity, foresight, imagination —
Then the author has added, in type think it through to fulfillment.
and daring—be offered to Jewish
enclosed in brackets ( ), material
Every time I ponder what Jews history. Why only to American
—he has added between 1967 and have done to build Florida I won- geography?
1969. Thus we have now a total der why they can't do the same
expose of the savagery, the hor- for Israel. A drive northward
rors that were imposed upon along the sea-coast from Miami Chicken in Every Pot
Jews.
Beach to Palm Beach—a stretch
JERUSALEM (JTA)- The agri-
Russians offered as an excuse of less than 100 miles—reveals culture ministry has announced
that others than Jews also suffer- a shoreline that is punctuated, planned curtailment of the import
ed, but the fact is that the Jewish acre after acre, with high-rise of frozen beef, which has been
community of 70,000 was slaught- apartments and condominiums. running currently at the rate of
ered and buried, many Were in- I do not believe that all of Jew- 30,000 tons a year, in order to
terred alive, in Babi Yar. And ish North America lives in these conserve foreign currency. The
Russia hid the fact. preienting golden miles of houses, mile after ministry said the measure was re-
people from going there to pay sun-drenched mile! But a con- quired because of the rise in the
tribute to the martyrs, to the vic- servative "gness-timate" sag. price of beef on the world market
tims of the most horrible brutali- seats that many hundreds of from $550 to $900 a ton.
ties in the world's hisory.
thousands of Jews, from all over
In place of beef, the ministry
Yet, as related in Anatoli's
the continent, now live In Florida said it will promote the expansion
(lCuznetsov's) "Bahl Yar," sur-
a good part of each year — as of chicken and turkey breeding.
denly, unexpectedly, a plaque
apartment tenants or cond•mbs- Israel presently consumes about
- - appeared at Babi Yar stating
ium-owners.
45,000 tons of beef annually, 30,-
that a memorial was to be erect-
The idea of a- "second home" 000 tons of which is imported. The
ed there to the victims of Naz-
has obviously taken root among consumption of poultry has been
ism. It is not known who placed
many North Americans, among much higher in recent years.
It there or how it appeared. Was
whom there are many Jews.
it brought about by a sense of
Imagine what could happen to
What is easy is seldom excel-
guilt, or was it because Russia us as Jews—to our children's and lent.—Samuel Johnson.
is now sensitive to criticism?
The new novel-history presents
the story of the writer's experi-
Training Emigre as Lab Technician
ences, how he engaged in
black market activities for surviv-
al, how Jews were hounded. the
way in which Germans icted and
how some in Kiev were all-too-
ready to helo the Nazis in their
brutalities. Then come these re-
vealing facts presented by Ana-
toli-Kuznetsov:
"Babi Yar no longer exists (In
the opinion of certain politicians,
it never did exist). The ravine has
been filled in and a main road
passed over it.
"(As soon as the war ended, peo-
ple—of whom Ilya Ehrenburg was
one of the first—started saying
that a memorial should be erected
at Babi Yar. But the Central Com-
mittee of the Ukrainian Commun-
ist Party, of which Nikita Khrush-
chev was then in charge, consid-
ered that the people who had been
executed in Babi Yar did not de-
serve a memorial.
For a young man, resettliag in a new- country saeaart'piimarlIT
"More than once I heard Com- a meaningful job. The New York Association for New Americans,
munists in Kiev saying this sort supported by the United- Jewish Appeal, has helped Had work for
of thing:
thousands of Jewish Immigrants to America. Here,
yousid man
" 'What Babi Yar are you talking from Eastern Europe Is being trained as a dental lab a technician.
New Tasks for Zionists
limes as many people in it of Rus-
sian and other nationalities. Ar-
guments like this always seemed
to me quite ridiculous: were they
trying to say that only if the pro-
portion reached a certain figure
would it be worthwhile erecting
a memorial? How could you pos-
sibly work it out in percentages?
It is PEOPLE who lie buried in
Babi Yar.
"But the Ukrainian Central
Committee, headed in 1957 by Nik-
olai Podgorny, apparently worked
out the percentages, found them
unconvincing and arrived at a Sol-
omon-like soliition—to put a stop
once and for all to talk about
Babi Yar, to destroy it and forget
all about it.
"That marked the beginning of
the second attempt to erase Babi
Yar from history.
"To fill in such an enormous
ravine was a gigantic task, but
it was possible, given the vast
scale of construction'work in the
U.S.S.R. The engineers hit on a
very clever solution—to fill the
ravine not by tipping but washing
earth into it by means of pumping
machinery.)"
Such was the tragedy of Babi
Yar, perpetuated in the shielding
of guilt, in an effort to whitewash
the Ukrainian collaborators.
Aggravating the legacy of these
brutalities is the role of Nikolai
Podilonii under whose domination
the guilt was committed, when
he was chairman of the Central
Committee of the Ukrainian Com-
munist Party. Now he is the USSR
president who directs the activi-
ties of encouraging Israel's ene-
mies. The total picture Is one of
complete terror.
—P. S.
•
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