The Complete Black Book of Russian JewryDavid Patterson Transaction Publishers, 2003 M06 1 - 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 recovered by Ms. Ehrenburg include numerous documents that had been censored from the original manuscript, as well as items that had been hidden by the Grossman family. In addition, she verified and, where appropriate, corrected the accuracy of documents that had already appeared in earlier editions of The Black Book. |
Contents
Babi Yar an article based on documentary materials and depositions | 12 |
The Murder of the Jews of Berdichev by Vasily Grossman | 21 |
In the Town of Chmelnik Vinnitsa District reported by A I Bekker | 27 |
Pyotr Chepurenko Witness to the Piryatin Massacre | 41 |
A Letter from Military Officer Granovsky Ekaterinopol | 49 |
3 | 85 |
The Story of Lily Herts Lvov | 86 |
A Letter from an Intelligence Officer Lvov District | 92 |
The Hunters | 243 |
28 | 262 |
The United Partisan Organization of the Vilna Ghetto UPO | 268 |
The Death Forts of Kovno Kaunas by Meir Elin | 314 |
The Kovno Ghetto Fighters by I Iosade | 326 |
Doctor Elena BuividaiteKutorgene reported by G Osherovich | 333 |
The Story of Galina Masyulis | 368 |
Riga by Captain E Gekhtman | 379 |
A Letter from Syunya Deresh Izyaslav | 98 |
12 | 104 |
The Minsk Ghetto materials provided by A Machiz Grechanik L Gleizer | 109 |
Leaders of the Underground Fighters in the Minsk Ghetto by G Smolyar | 138 |
The Young Women from Minsk reported by Semyon Bank | 154 |
The Story of Engineer Pikman from Mozyr Basya Pikman | 169 |
Brest Depositions and Documentary Testimony of the Residents of Brest | 176 |
prepared for publication by Margarita Aliger | 184 |
Liozno reported by B Chernyakova prepared for publication | 188 |
In Bialystok prepared for publication by R Kovnator | 197 |
The Story of Two Workers in the City | 203 |
The Smolensk Area prepared for publication by Ilya Ehrenburg | 211 |
Doctor Kremenchuzhsky prepared for publication by Ilya Ehrenburg | 217 |
The Story of Iosif Vaingertner a Fisherman from Kerch prepared | 223 |
Murder in Dzhankoy prepared for publication by L Kvitko | 231 |
The Vilna Ghetto by A Sutskever translated from the Yiddish | 241 |
From the Notebook of the Sculptor Elik Rivosh Riga | 396 |
prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman and R Kovnator 396 | 411 |
A Letter from Officers Levchenko Borisov and Chesnokov | 419 |
The Teachers Golneva Terekhova and Timofeeva reported by Khana | 426 |
The Roman Catholic Priest Bronyus Paukshtis by Girsh Osherovich | 435 |
In the Khorol Concentration Camp reported by A Reznichenko | 453 |
The Children from the Black Road by V Apresyan | 483 |
The Report of the Special State Commission for the Verification and Investigation | 500 |
At Auschwitz the German Executioners Murdered Citizens of Every | 506 |
Calling the GermanFascists to a Serious Accounting | 514 |
The Story of Mordecai | 522 |
The Story of Former Prisoner of War M Scheinman | 532 |
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by B Mark | 542 |
The Racial Politics of Hitlerism and AntiSemitism | 561 |
Protocol of the Interrogation of Wilhelm Sudbrak | 578 |
Other editions - View all
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 |