Babi Yar

This book is the full author’s version of the famous documentary novel “Babi Yar” on the destruction of the Jewish population of Kiev in the fall of 1941. Anatoly Kuznetsov, then the teenager, himself witnessed the executions of the Kyiv Jews, talked a lot with people who survived the disaster, gathered the memories of other contemporaries and eyewitnesses. For the first time, his novel was published in the Yunost magazine in 1966, and even then, despite the numerous and rude censorship reductions, the effect of the exploding bomb made - so no one dared to write to Kuznetsov about the Holocaust. However, the path of the genuine story of Babier Yar to the reader turned out to be long and difficult. In 1969, Anatoly Kuznetsov secretly took out the full version of the novel to England, where he asked for political asylum. A year later, Babi Yar was published in the West in the author’s version, but the Russian reader was able to get acquainted with the text without bills only after perestroika.