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BARRY I. AUSTER,

Ukrainian Author
Is A Fraud

Sydney, Australia (JTA) — The
writer of a highly acclaimed nov-
el widely interpreted as provid-
• ing justification for the murder
of Jews by Ukrainian collabora-
tors with the Nazis has been ex-
posed to be the perpetrator of a
fraud.
The Hand That Signed The
Paper, which this year was
awarded Australia's most covet-
ed prize for fiction, the Miles
\-- Franklin Award, was purported-
ly written by an Australian of
Ukrainian heritage.
The author, Helen Demidenko,
had defended herself against
charges that her novel misrepre-
sented history by claiming that
her primary sources were rela-
tives transmitting "oral history."
But, with the revelation that
her real name is Darville and not
Demidenko, the writer has been
forced to concede that her father,
who hails from northeast Eng-
land, was not an Ukrainian who
avoided service with the SS due
to his ill health.
The leading critic of the novel,
• / Gerard Henderson, executive di-
rector of the Sydney Institute, a
prestigious think-tank, noted that
the writer "was listened to be-
cause she claimed to be speaking
oral history — namely the story
of Ukrainians living in Australia"
Ms. Darville adopted the fam-
ily name of a real participant in
• the . massacre of Jews in the
ravme of Babi Yar in the
Ukraine, in 1941, according to
Henderson. The historic Demi-
denko appears in Antoli
Kuznetsov's Babi Yar and D.M.
Thomas' The White Hotel, which
Ms. Darville has said she read.
Isi Leibler, president of the Ex-
_ ecutive Council of Australian
Jewry, said: "The work was per-
nicious, irrespective of what the
author's background is. The fact
that she was running around and
misrepresenting herself kind of
questions the other statements
she made trying to validate her
position."
The Ukrainian community in
• Australia has also called fora full
explanation from the writer, who
characterized primitive, violent
and drunken individuals as typ-
ical Ukrainians.

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