Leyba-Itzko Dobrovsky or Dobrovskii (Лейба Іцик Добровський; 1910–1969)[1] was a Jewish Ukrainian soldier of the Soviet Red Army who was captured prisoner and hid his ethnic identity to survive the Holocaust.
McBride notes that Kryzhanovskii was "well-known for his brutality towards Jews", but the nationalists, not suspecting that Dobrovskii was Jewish, recruited him to produce propaganda on account of his education.
The basis for McBride's version of events is Dobrovskii's arrest file kept in the Security Service of Ukraine archives, which was presented publicly in 2008 as part of an exhibition organized by the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, with the assistance of Viatrovych himself.
A similar argument was made with the case of an alleged Jewish UPA fighter named Stella Krenzbach, whose ostensible memoirs were first published in the Ukrainian diaspora in 1954 and in Ukraine in 1993.
Historian John-Paul Himka, in 2011, dismissed the Krenzbach "legend" as a fabrication of UPA and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and their promoters, who, he stated, "have to resort to falsifications to defend their innocence vis-à-vis the Holocaust.