The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories

Author:   Joshua Rubenstein ,  Ilya Altman ,  Ilya Altman
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253222671


Pages:   496
Publication Date:   25 May 2010
Format:   Paperback
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The Unknown Black Book provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II-Ukraine, Belorussia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Crimea. These documents are first-hand accounts by survivors of work camps, ghettos, forced marches, beatings, starvation, and disease. Collected under the direction of two renowned Soviet Jewish journalists, Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman, they tell of Jews who lived in pits, walled-off corners of apartments, attics, and basement dugouts, unable to emerge due to fear that their neighbors would betray them, as often happened.

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Author:   Joshua Rubenstein ,  Ilya Altman ,  Ilya Altman
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.839kg
ISBN:  

9780253222671


ISBN 10:   0253222672
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   25 May 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Acknowledgments The Destruction of the Jews in German-Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union Yitzhak Arad The History and Fate of The Black Book and The Unknown Black Book Ilya Altman Note on Translation The War and the Final Solution on the Russian Front Joshua Rubenstein I. Ukraine II. Belorussia III. Lithuania IV. Latvia V. Estonia VI. The Crimea VII. Russia VIII. Prisoners of War Detailed Table of Contents Index

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One of the most important sources on the Holocaust ... [T]he editors and Indiana University Press have performed an invaluable service by preparing an English-language edition of The Unknown Black Book. Timothy Snyder The most comprehensive English collection of wartime and early postwar diaries, letters, testimonies, and other documents penned by Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust in the territories of Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia, and the Baltics. Anyone interested in studying and trying to make sense of the cruelty, collective violence, inhumane suffering, and trauma of genocide should read this unfiltered, detailed evidence of the Holocaust's impact on individuals and society. Wendy Lower, author of Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine A unique source for a fuller understanding of the tragic events during these dark years. oWalter Laqueur, editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia The Unknown Black Book invites the reader to enter an almost unimaginable world where atrocity became a way of life and survival a miracle... Killing on the Eastern front was raw and unmediated violence. 'The Unknown Black Book' captures that grim reality of rave murder and at the same time disarms denial. Richard Overy, author of The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia The Unknown Black Book's main contribution is in exposing the English-speaking audience, for the first time, to one of the most terrible chapters of the Holocaust, as well as in challenging the current trend of presenting the Holocaust as merely another crime against humanity. Russian Review An essential work for anyone who wants to explore the depth of German and collaborationist crimes against the Jews. Holocaust and Genocide Studies These accounts from those who saw what happened convey what we cannot learn from official documents about the nature of this vast criminal enterprise, in which hundreds of thousands were transformed into monsters ... and millions of others became helpless, dehumanized, mutilated, and finally forgotten victims. Wall Street Journal The book offers a great many insights to the reader... It is impossible here to give a full account of the wealth of material contained in the book. Journal of Modern Jewish Studies


These accounts from those who saw what happened convey what we cannot learn from official documents about the nature of this vast criminal enterprise, in which hundreds of thousands were transformed into monsters... and millions of others became helpless, dehumanized, mutilated, and finally forgotten victims. -Wall Street Journal An essential work for anyone who wants to explore the depth of German and collaborationist crimes against the Jews. -Holocaust and Genocide Studies The Unknown Black Book's main contribution is in exposing the English-speaking audience, for the first time, to one of the most terrible chapters of the Holocaust, as well as in challenging the current trend of presenting the Holocaust as merely another crime against humanity. -Russian Review One of the most important sources on the Holocaust... [T]he editors and Indiana University Press have performed an invaluable service by preparing an English-language edition of The Unknown Black Book. -Timothy Snyder, Yale University The book offers a great many insights to the reader... It is impossible here to give a full account of the wealth of material contained in the book. -Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, March 19, 2010 The most comprehensive English collection of wartime and early postwar diaries, letters, testimonies, and other documents penned by Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust in the territories of Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia, and the Baltics. Anyone interested in studying and trying to make sense of the cruelty, collective violence, inhumane suffering, and trauma of genocide should read this unfiltered, detailed evidence of the Holocaust's impact on individuals and society. -Wendy Lower, author of Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine A unique source for a fuller understanding of the tragic events during these dark years. -Walter Laqueur, editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia The Unknown Black Book invites the reader to enter an almost unimaginable world where atrocity became a way of life and survival a miracle... Killing on the Eastern front was raw and unmediated violence. 'The Unknown Black Book' captures that grim reality of rave murder and at the same time disarms denial. -Richard Overy, author of The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia


Author Information

Joshua Rubenstein is Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA. He is author of Tangled Loyalties: The Life and Times of Ilya Ehrenburg, and editor (with Vladimir Naumov) of Stalin's Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Ilya Altman is Director of the Center for Holocaust Research and Education in Moscow and Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in the USSR (in Russian).

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