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>A. Ezergailis: >I can throw some light at least on the question of when, >at the very latest, the Soviet leadership knew that Jews were >being specifically singled out for slaughter. A report from the >Presidential archive, prepared by Savchenko, zam kommissar NKVD Ukr SSR >to the CC and dated 4 Dec 1941, "Spetsial'noe soobshchenie o polozhenii v >gor. Kieve posle okkupatsii ego protivnikom" (VESTNIK 3 [1995]) declares >flat out that "on 28 Sept announcements were hung throughout the city for >the entire Jewish population to assemble at the Luk'ianov cemetery. . . . >The entire Jewish population, the overwhelming majority of whom were >women, old men and >children, presented themselves at the appointed place, where >they were executed [rasstrelianyy].Peter Holquist 4 Dec. 1941 was very late, at the time of Moscow battle, when Soviets can do nothing at all already, when all Jewish-populated regions were occupied already by Nazis. George Valas ************************************************************* GEORGE VALAS, Physicist, Senior Information Consultant National Technical Information Centre and Library, OMIKK Street Address: Muzeum u. 17., Budapest VIII., Hungary Mail Address: P.O.Box 12, Budapest, H-1428, Hungary Phone: +36 1 138 2300; Fax: +36 1 138 2414; Tx.: 224944 omikk hu; E-mail: valas@omk.omikk.hu *************************************************************
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