Indiana University Press
Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories
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- Joshua Rubenstein
- Indiana University Press
- Paperback
- 9780253222671
- 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.3 inches
- 1.4 pounds
- History > Holocaust
- English
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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.
Author Bio
Joshua Rubenstein is Associate Director for Major Gifts at Harvard Law School. He was the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA for 37 years.
His first book, Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights, was the first general history of the Soviet dissident movement. Tangled Loyalties, his biography of the controversial Soviet-Jewish writer Ilya Ehrenburg, came out in 1996. Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, received a National Jewish Book Award.
He then edited The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov and The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories. His interpretive biography of Leon Trotsky is part of the Jewish Lives Series of Yale University Press. The Last Days of Stalin is his tenth book; it is scheduled to appear in Azeri, Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, and Ukrainian.
Source: Harvard University
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