A new edition of Kuznetsov’s ‘Babi Yar’ has been published in Ukrainian in Kyiv: the return of a book that Soviet censorship tried to rewrite
Rosa Tapanova on September 16, 2026, showed the finished copies of the book, wrote a preface to it, and explained why "Babi Yar" should take up more space in Ukrainian schools. The history of this text itself became part of the history of memory: a twelve-year-old witness to the occupation, Soviet censorship, a manuscript on film, millions of readers of the abridged version, and the complete book that had to be taken out of the USSR.
Author: Victoria Katsman
On September 16, 2026, the director of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babi Yar" Rosa Tapanova spoke about the new Ukrainian edition of Anatoly Kuznetsov's documentary novel "Babi Yar".
"The book that revealed the truth about the Holocaust and the history of Kyiv to me.
A book I often return to when I doubt and make decisions on projects.
This year, each of us will be able to read Anatoly Kuznetsov's book "Babi Yar" in Ukrainian.
Once, I didn't even dream of writing a preface to this book. Now it is an honor for me."
In her publication, Tapanova outlined several key thoughts:
• Kuznetsov's book once became one of the texts through which she truly understood the scale of the Holocaust and the history of…
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