In Fiction
(Alphabetical by author, then title)
- The Babi Yar executions are described in detail in Jonathan Littell's novel Les Bienveillantes (in English, The Kindly Ones), whose main character, Dr. Aue, is one of the Nazi officers in charge.
- The Remnant – Jewish Resistance in WWII by Othniel J. Seiden (c 2010, ISBN 0-9801941-4-8; Books to Believe In) also tells of the horrors of Babi Yar, along with the stories of the Forest People of the Ukraine, who made up much of the Jewish Resistance to the Nazis.
- The Survivor of Babi Yar by Othniel J. Seiden (c 1980, ISBN 937050-02-4) is an account of the title character as he escapes and forms a Jewish resistance group of some size and significance.
- In Chapter 5 of his novel The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas vividly describes the whole episode and the execution of his main character, Lisa, at Babi Yar. He describes Dina Pronicheva as "the only witness, the sole authority for what Lisa saw and felt". Lisa's death is ambiguously recounted, and in Chapter 6, Lisa arrives at what seems to be a reception camp in Palestine, but which is in fact a post-death extension of her psychological dream life.
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