Word: kiev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After one day in Los Angeles, Mrs. Meir flew to Milwaukee to visit the Fourth Street School. When Goldie Mabovitch was eight years old, her family emigrated from Kiev, Russia, to Milwaukee. The three-story brick school, which she attended for six years, is physically almost unchanged. However, it is now in the center of the city's ghetto, and all the students are black...
...bloody hours at Babi Yar, a deep ravine outside Kiev, Hitler's special commandos 28 years ago last week coldly machine-gunned 34,000 Jews. The massacre has become a symbol not only of Nazi persecution but also of the status of the Soviet Union's 3,000,000 Jews, who are discriminated against in most areas of Soviet life. Soviet his tories all but ignore the tragedy. Only a simple stone marks the grass-covered site, and it says simply that "victims of fascism" lie below. The Jewish identity of the victims was not even mentioned...
...rail against Israel. Among those upset by the performance was a 33-year-old radio engineer named Boris Kochubiyevsky. He protested: "Here lies a part of the Jewish people." When a bystander said, "Too bad they didn't get the rest," Kochubiyevsky (whose parents died with the other Kiev Jews in 1941) began arguing with him. At one point, he complained that because he was a Jew "no one in this country considers me a fellow Russian." Kochubiyevsky should have limited himself to a silent scream. For his comments he was denounced, arrested, and tried last May for spreading...
Kochubiyevsky had felt its sting before. Early in 1968, he was hounded out of his job at a Kiev radio factory because he had dared to defend Israel during a political lecture. When he applied for an exit visa to Israel, his non-Jewish wife was expelled from the Young Communist League for "Zionism" and disowned by her father, a KGB security police officer. Just before Kochubiyevsky was to get his emigration papers, he was arrested for "slanderous fabrications against the Soviet state...
Court Exchange. The trial was something out of Kafka. The prosecutor ridiculed him for having said that "Jews are oppressed here," yet there was ample evidence of that in the province court at Kiev, where Ukrainian antiSemitism runs deep. When Kochubiyevsky's brother tried to get in, a guard barred him, shouting "You're no brother, you're a kike, a kike, a kike!" The judge made no effort to discourage hooting and mocking among the spectators, many of them KGB men and local party hacks. He chided Kochubiyevsky's wife, who was nine months pregnant...