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A complete history of the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union during the period 1941-1945

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsPrefacePart 1. The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union before World War II1. Jews in Czarist Russia2. Jews in the USSR and in the Annexed Territories between the Two World WarsPart 2. The Impact of Political and Military Developments on the Jews of Eastern Europe, September 1, 1939, to June 22, 19413. German-Soviet Relations and Geopolitical Changes in Eastern Europe    4. The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories           5. Preparations in Germany for the Attack on the Soviet Union and the Annihilation of the Jews  Part 3. The German Attack on the Soviet Union6. Invasion under the Slogan "War on Judeo-Bolshevism"    7. Evacuation of the Soviet Population: Jews in Organized and Individual Evacuation       8. Anti-Jewish Pogroms during the Early Days of Occupation          9. The German Administration in the Occupied Territories and Its Anti-Jewish Policy        Part 4. Mass Murder, First Stage: June 22, 1941, to Winter 1941-4210. Einsatzgruppen Routes of Advance and Method of Extermination        11. Reichskommissariat Ostland: Ghettos and Extermination           12. Reichskommissariat Ukraine: Ghettos and Extermination           13. Military Administration Areas: Ghettos and Extermination        14. Extermination of the Jews of Crimea       15. The German Army from "Freedom of Action" for the Einsatzgruppen to Active Collaboration in the Murders            16. Persecution of the Jews in District Galicia           17. Romania and Transnistria: Expulsion and Mass Murder  Part 5. Mass Murder, Second Stage: From Spring to Late 194218. The Killing Actions in Ostland and the Grodno-Volkovysk Region (Generalbezirk Bialystok) 19. Annihilation in Reichskommissariat Ukraine        20. Mass Murder in District Galicia: Operation Reinhard      21. Annihilation in Areas under Military Administration       22. Transnistria: Life in the Shadow of Death           Part 6. Mass Murder, Third Stage: From Early 1943 until the End of German Occupation23. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ostland 24. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ukraine 25. Survival in Transnistria     26. Action 1005          Part 7. The Murder of Specific Jewish Groups27. The Murder of Mixed Marriages, Their Offspring, and Jewish Children in Boardinghouses      28. The Murder of Jewish Prisoners of War   29. Extermination in Ostland of Jews from the Third Reich  Part 8. The Robbery of Jewish Property and Cultural Values30. Confiscation and Plunder             31. The Pillage of Cultural Assets      Part 9. Non-Jewish Society and Its Reaction to the Genocide of the Jews32. The Local Population        33. The Righteous among the Nations            34. Attitudes of the Churches and Clergy toward the German Administration and Its Anti-Jewish Policy Part 10. The Jews in Their Struggle for Life and in Armed Resistance35. The Individual, the Public, and Jewish Councils in a Battle for Survival            36. The Jewish Armed Underground in the Ghettos  37. The Jews in Forests and the Partisan Movement  38. Blood Account: Casualties and Survivors            Conclusion      Epilogue: The Holocaust and Soviet Governing Authorities Notes   Bibliography   Index  

About the Author

Yitzhak Arad served as the director of Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Authority, from 1972 to 1993. He is the author or editor of several books, including Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union, 8th edition (Nebraska, 1999) and In the Shadow of the Red Banner: Soviet Jews in War Against Nazi Germany.

Ora Cummings is a literary agent in Rehovot, Israel, and the translator of many works, most recently Rina Frank’s Every House Needs a Balcony: A Novel.

Reviews

"Yitzhak Arad has produced a notable work that is particularly valuable for its comprehensive documentation of Nazi crimes over a large geographic area." Waitman W. Beorn, Holocaust and Genocide Studies "[The Holocaust in the Soviet Union] is a magisterial work of great significance. Particularly for readers more familiar with the Holocaust in western Europe and occupied Poland, there is a great deal to learn from it." Maarten Pereboom, Shofar "This book is a supreme achievement and an essential work for all Holocaust libraries." Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter "A masterful synthesis... This study provides a much-needed panoramic view in a field that has produced mostly regional and microstudies in the past two decades... Arad's remarkable tome has both an encyclopedic as well as broad-brush quality to it that makes it required reading in Holocaust Studies." Bradley D. Woodworth, Russian Review "Arad's book constitutes a welcome and valuable contribution to Holocaust scholarship." earunas Liekis, Journal of Baltic Studies