was Jews that were killing Ukrainians by the thousands. George Orwell's 1984 has arrived and is
in place - now our media drum into us that black is white, love is hate, war is peace,
Ukrainians killed Jews.
Morely Safer Invents Corroborative Events
Furthermore, in connection with the possibility of a massive, pre-German Lviv pogrom, 60 Minutes
insinuated into the pre-German interval three events which gave the viewer the impression that
the pre-German pogrom in question was well-documented and incapable of being doubted: (1) the
arrest of Mr. Wiesenthal's mother, (2) the shooting of Mr. Wiesenthal's mother-in-law, and (3)
the scenes depicted in "remnants of a film":
SAFER: But even before the Germans entered Lvov, the Ukrainian militia, the
police, killed 3,000 people in 2 days here.
LUBACHIVSKY: It is not true!
SAFER: It's horribly true to Simon Wiesenthal - like thousands of Lvov Jews,
his mother was led to her death by the Ukrainian police.
These are remnants of a film the Germans made of Ukrainian brutality. The
German high command described the Ukrainian behavior as 'praiseworthy.'
WIESENTHAL: My wife's mother was shot to death because she could not go so
fast.
SAFER: She couldn't keep up with the rest of the prisoners.
WIESENTHAL. Yes. She was shot to death by a Ukrainian policeman because she
couldn't walk fast.
SAFER: It was the Lvov experience that compelled Wiesenthal to seek out the
guilty, to bring justice.
The above passage starts by mentioning Lviv prior to arrival of the Germans, and it ends with a
reference to "the Lvov experience," which invites the viewer to imagine that the events
mentioned in the same passage happened during the pre-German interval. However, examining Mr.
Wiesenthal's biographies for confirmation of the first two of these events - the arrest of his
mother and the shooting of his mother-in-law - turns up the following (it will help at this
point to recollect that Lviv was occupied by the Germans on June 30, 1941):
In August [1942] the SS was loading elderly Jewish women into a goods truck at
Lvov station. One of them was Simon Wiesenthal's mother, then sixty-three.
... His wife's mother was shortly afterwards shot dead by a Ukrainian police
auxiliary on the steps of her house. (Peter Michael Lingens, in Simon
Wiesenthal, Justice Not Vengeance, 1989, p. 8)
"My mother was in August 1942 taken by a Ukrainian policeman," Simon says,
lapsing swiftly into the present tense as immediacy takes hold. ... Around
the same time, Cyla Wiesenthal [Mr. Wiesenthal's wife] learned that, back in
Buczacz, her mother had been shot to death by a Ukrainian policeman as she was
being evicted from her home. (Alan Levy, The Wiesenthal File, 1993, p. 41)
We see, therefore, that 60 Minutes seems to have advanced the date of arrest of Simon
Wiesenthal's mother as well as the shooting of his mother-in-law by more than a year in order to
lend credibility to the claim of Ukrainian-initiated actions against Jews prior to the German
occupation of Lviv.
Also attributed to the pre-German interval by 60 Minutes were the events depicted in the
"remnants of a film" quoted above, but as we shall see below, these scenes are not scenes of a
pogrom and they did not antedate the arrival of the Germans either.
As a final piece of contradictory evidence, Andrew Gregorivich reports being told by a resident
of Lviv during those days that there was not a three-day gap between the departure of the
Soviets and the arrival of the Germans (Jews Ukrainians, Forum, No. 91, Fall-Winter 1994, p.