Babi Yar

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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the topic of survival and the holocaust in literature. Specifically, it contains the response of the paper's author to Dina Pronicheva's account of surviving the massacre at Babi Yar.

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"Reading about any Holocaust survivorship is demanding at best, because the images of suffering, cruelty, and misfortune are so difficult to comprehend, and to believe. It is hard to believe that anyone could cause so much misery without any conscience, and even justify it by race. It is difficult to believe that an entire race of people was so passive they allowed themselves to be manipulated by a few. It is difficult to believe that women, children, and the elderly were all summarily reduced to bodies and ash, and it just kept happening. The Holocaust was a nightmare for the Jews, it is still nightmarish to read about, and Dina Pronicheva's account is as demanding as any other is, because it is true, and because it signifies the deaths of so many thousands of others."

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