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What I find tragic about it all is how the Communists then proceeded to employ the same henchmen (they had the skills, you see), and “finished the job”. And after that, it was state policy to keep schtum about it all and protect those henchmen. We never faced up to the facts that those committing the pogroms could have been our grandparents, for us who are not Jewish.
Dec 13 · 4 days ago
My Grandma's Story — My grandmother was maybe five years old. She sat on the side of a dirt road, waiting to die, with her brother next to her. They sat there for hours waiting for the Ukrainians to come back. They were walking along a dirt road near their house when the horsemen with rifles came galloping down the road. They surrounded the kids and told them to sit. "Sit down and don't move, little Yids. We have to kill a few big Yids, and then we will come back and kill you". They galloped...