Talk:Syrets concentration camp

April 22, 2018
This is in response to the original text of this article by Mtsmallwood posted at 08:18, 2 August 2009 when the article was created from scratch (quote): The prisoners (women and men) were housed in holes dug int the earth.

I uploaded the photograph and revised that sentence to read: The prisoners (women and men) were housed in wooden barracks and in dug-outs with doors and stairs leading down from the ground level to prevent them from freezing up in winter.

The Earth sheltering is a long-established and well thought-trough technology meant to help survive rather than to kill the dwellers.  Poeticbent  talk 22:31, 22 April 2018 (UTC) Just wanted to clarify that. Thanks,  Poeticbent  talk 22:31, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
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Syrets Concentration Camp
In conducting research for a time travel novel I'm writing I found this Wikipedia entry informative but also stumbled across an incongruity. The article states, "On December 6, 1943, Soviet authorities took a number of Western journalists to the site of the Babi Yar massacres." Perhaps so. But on Page A-2 of the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) for December 3, 1943, there's a story from the Associated Press by Eddy Gilmore on his visit to the site with two other reporters where they met with Professor Pavel Aloshin, "chief architect" for Russia "for the reconstruction of the Ukraine," and three inmates of the Syrets concentration camp who helped recover and cremate the bodies of the victims while under Nazi guards. The three were Efimir Vilkin, Leonid Ostrovsky, and Vladimer Davidov. Eddie Gilmore was chief of the AP's Moscow bureau at that time. You can access the Evening Star edition through the Library of Congress. My name is Guy Snyder. Guysny (talk) 21:03, 20 November 2022 (UTC)