Its heavyhanded manipulation of the past only serves to indelibly taint the lenses through which it views the present. and does not bode well for the future. In July 1982. my wife Joan and I visited Babi Yar and were enormously moved by this monument and the knowledge of what had happened here. From Kiev. we traveled to the village of Batcklurina. some 165 miles from Kiev. where my father. Harry Specter. was born and lived until 1911 when he immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. My personal connection with the Ukraine underscores my deep concern about the massacre at Babi Yar. the current plight of Soviet Jewry. and the importance of remembering the tragic event.
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