Babi Yar

This book is the complete author's version of the famous documentary novel "Babi Yar" about the destruction of the Jewish population of Kyiv in the autumn of 1941. Anatoly Kuznetsov, who was a teenager at the time, was himself a witness to the shootings of Kyiv Jews, frequently communicated with people who survived the catastrophe, and collected the memories of other contemporaries and eyewitnesses. His novel was first published in the magazine "Youth" in 1966, and even then, despite numerous and crude censorship cuts, it had the effect of a bomb exploding - no one had dared to write about the Holocaust before Kuznetsov.

However, the path of the true story of Babi Yar to the reader turned out to be long and difficult.

In 1969, Anatoly Kuznetsov secretly smuggled the complete version of the novel to England, where he sought political asylum. A year later, "Babi Yar" was published in the West in the author's edition, but the Russian reader could only familiarize themselves with the uncensored text after Perestroika.