The Complete Black Book of Russian JewryRoutledge, 2017 M07 12 - 579 pages The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps, ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt comparism is to The Gulag Archipelago of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. This definitive edition of The Black Book, including for the first time materials omitted from previous editions, is a major addition to the literature on the Holocaust. It will be of particular interest to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust and those interested in the history of Europe. By the end of 1942, 1.4 million Jews had been killed by the Einsatzgruppen that followed the German army eastward; by the end of the war, nearly two million had been murdered in Russia and Eastern Europe. Of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, about one-third fell in the territories of the USSR. The single most important text documenting that slaughter is The Black Book, compiled by two renowned Russian authors Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman. Until now, The Black Book was only available in English in truncated editions. Because of its profound significance, this new and definitive English translation of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a major literary and intellectual event. From the time of the outbreak of the war, Ehrenburg and Grossman collected the eyewitness testimonies that went into The Black Book. As early as 1943 they were planning its publication; the first edition appeared in 1944. During the years immediately after the war, Grossman assisted Ehrenburg in compiling additional materials for a second edition, which appeared in 1946 (in English as well as Russian). Since the fall of the Soviet regime, Irina Ehrenburg, the daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg, has recovered the lost portions of the manuscript sent to Yad Vashem. The texts recove |
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... Hitlerites. The determinism of the collective design in its very imperfection, in allowing people to slip through the Gordian knot, provided human witnesses, or if you will, the empirical evidence, to the atrocities being committed on a ...
... Hitlerites ruled and consider the utterly brutal atrocities, if we measure the sheer enormity of the destruction of cultural values shared by all humanity, it may seem that everything that happened was the outcome of madness, the result ...
... Hitlerites regarded all of this murderous work as a preliminary preparation for the take over of the “eastern area.” In many places the murder of the local residents—of Russians, Belorussians, and Ukrainians—was merely the first step ...
... Hitlerites were afraid of resistance and uprisings. In the eastern regions of the occupied Soviet territories, where murders were carried out immediately after the arrival of the invaders, the Hitlerites often succeeded in using such a ...
... Hitlerites was the fact that Jews capable of fighting at the time of the invaders' arrival were in the ranks of the Red Army, and those capable of work had been evacuated along with industrial plants, factories, and Soviet offices. And ...
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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry Vasiliĭ Semenovich Grossman,David Patterson No preview available - 2002 |
The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry Ilya Ehrenburg,Vasily Grossman,David Patterson No preview available - 2003 |