- Headline
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Horror Story Is Revealed
- Sub-Headline
- Hundreds Shot in Massacre at Kiev
- Publication Date
- Wednesday, November 17, 1943
- Historical Event
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Germans Kill Thousands of Jews in Mass Shooting Outside Kiev
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- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 1
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Moscow (AP)—An eyewitness account of Jewish massacres in Kiev during the early days of its occupation by German troops has been given the newspaper Izvestia by Dmitrii Grlov, a resident of Kiev, who said he saw hundreds of men and women stripped naked and then shot at the edge of a gully into which their bodies dropped on a great pile.
In the account, distributed by Tass news agency, Grlov related:
"Several days after the Germans entered Kiev I went to Lvovskaya street. An incessant procession of people was streaming through it and both sidewalks were lined with German patrols. This human stream kept flowing for three days and three nights without interruption.
"The Germans were driving the Jews to Babyi Yar gulley beyond the city. I stealthily made my way to that place. I was able to stand the sight of what I saw there only for ten minutes and after that everything went black before my eyes.
"The Germans forced people to undress and then methodically gathered their clothes and loaded them on trucks. In separate trucks
(See Page 2, No. 1). - History Unfolded Contributor
- Christin U.
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