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FRIDAY. JUNE 26. 1992

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n his outrage over the
Nazi murder and burial
of 33,771, Jews at Babi
Yar in the Ukraine, Sept.
1941, Yevgeny Yev-
tushenko, the popular Rus-
sian poet, wrote a long poem
under the title "Babi Yar."
He commenced his poem,
which he wrote after visiting
Babi Yar and looking down
at the mass grave in 1961,
with these lines:

There are no memorials
over Babi Yar.
Only an abrupt bank like a
crude epitaph rears.
I stand terror-stricken.
Today I'm as ancient in
years as the Jewish
people themselves are.
It seems to me at this
moment —
I am an Israelite.
Now I'm wandering over
Ancient Egypt in
captivity.
And now on the cross I
perish, crucified,
and to this day the marks
of the nails are on me.

The horror of the Babi Yar
crime began to get early at-
tention, including Russian
officialdom under Molotov,
as the Encyclopedia
Judaica provides:

At the end of 778 days of
Nazi rule in Kiev, the
ravine had become a mass
grave for over 100,000 per-
sons, the majority of them
being Jews. A note of the
Soviet government to the
Allies about German war
crimes, dated Jan. 6, 1942,
and signed by V.M. Molo-
tov, gives a vivid descrip-
tion of the massacre, poin-
ting out that the victims
were "a great number of
Jews, including women
and children of all ages." In
spite of German efforts in
August 1943 to erase all
traces of the mass burial
through massive incinera-
tion, the evidence could
not be suppressed and
after the war the Soviet
public at large learned of
the martyrdom through
newspaper accounts, of-
ficial reports, and belles
lettres.

As he witnessed the
evidence of the unbelievable
occurrence, Yevgeny Yev-
tushenko asserted his
outrage against all forms of
anti-Semitism as a Russian

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The new warnings by Mr.
Yevtushenko are now an
element in being aware of
increasing shocks striking
us in recent decades. There
is another challenge to the
globally spreading menace
in this admonition:

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don't think logically!'

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

linking himself to the Jew-
ish victims. He concluded
the poem:

Over Babi Yar only
rustling wild grasses
move.
The trees watch sternly,
like judges arrayed.
Here silence itself cries
aloud — my hat I remove,
and feel I am gradually
going gray.
And I myself am like an
endless soundless cry,
over these thousands and
thousands of buried ones.
Each one of these
murdered old men am I.
I am each of their
murdered sons.
Nothing will ever forget
this within me.
Let the "International"
thunder its might
when will be buried for
eternity
the earth's last anti-Semite.
No Jewish blood my veins
runs through,
but I am hated with an
encrusted passion,
by all anti-Semites, as if I
were a Jew,
and because of that I'm a
genuine Russian!

Mr. Yevtushenko seemed_
to have expressed hope for
anticipating " the last anti-
Semite." Is this a possibil-
ity? It is apparent that this
can hardly be dreamed of if
we take seriously his most
recent words emphasized in
the following "World Jewish
Congress Report:"

"Anti-Semitism is like a
genetic disease. In bad
situations, some microbes
could be resurrected;' Yev-
tushenko told a meeting of
the World Jewish Congress
in New York. He warned
that the situation would
get worse if the
beleaguered Russian
economy doesn't rebound
soon.
"When people get

Lengthy excerpts from
the notorious anti-Semitic
forgery, the Protocols of
the Elders of Zion, have
been published in a major
Russian newspaper for the
first time since 1917.
The article appeared in
Molodaya Gvardia, once
the official paper of the cti
Communist Party's youth
organization. Copies of the
Protocols have been peddl-
ed for some time in central
Moscow's Pushkin Square
by activists from the ex-
treme nationalist Pamyat
organization.

While we must never
overlook or forget the Holo-
caust and Jewish suffering,
we must also remember the
causes of them. If it is a Ford
or a Coughlin or any similar
collaborator in spreading
hate, the name as well as the
memory of the instigator
must remain a symbol of re-
jecting the sick-mindedness
of the prejudiced. The
jeremiad from Mr. Yev-
tushenko is never to dignify
or forget the haters in hu-
manity.

Lerner, Ben-Gurion

Max Lerner, one of the
distinguished columnists
and authors of the century
who died at the age of 89, left
much for us to learn about
human relations and world
politics. He will be re-
membered for his roles in
matters relating to the wars
against anti-Semitism and
his devotion to his support
for Israel.
It is in relation to Israel
that Dr. Lerner had a special
commitment and identifica-
tion. It is timely to recall a
delightful story about his
frequent conferring with
David Ben-Gurion. It was
after one of his early visits to
Israel in the 1950s that upon
saying his goodbyes he said,
"I'm so sorry, Ben-Gurion,
that I must leave after being
here only two weeks."
Thereupon, Mr. Ben-Gurion
replied, "Oh, no apologies. If
not two weeks, then a
lifetime."

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