- Headline
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Mass Murder of Kiev Jews By Nazis Told By Eyewitness
- Sub-Headline
- Stripped Naked They Were Shot Down At Edge Of Galley—Operation Took 3 Days, Moscow Says
- 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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- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Moscow, Nov. 17 (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 gulley into which their bodies dropped on a great pile.
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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 3 days and 3 nights without interruption.
"The Germans were driving the Jews to Babyi Yar Gulley beyond the city. I also stealthily made my way to that place. I was able to stand the sight of what I saw there only for 10 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 they put underwear. Then they tore off from naked people—there were men and women among them—rings and watches if they had any, dragged them up shivering from cold or mortal terror at the edge of the gully and shot them.
"The Germans did not spend any bullets on little children, but simply hurled them alive into the gulley.
"Those who were waiting their turn stood silently, or sang or even laughed. I could see that those who laughed were already insane.
"And this thing lasted 3 days.
"All these whom the Germans as yet did not drive to their death knew what was in store for them. Old men put on mourning clothes and gathered in their homes for prayer, then went out to Lvovskaya Street. Invalids were supported by others and some were even carried.
"All of them were killed." - History Unfolded Contributor
- Ava K.
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