The Holocaust in the Soviet Union /
Arad, Yitzhak,1926-
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; Jerusalem : Yad Vashem,
c2009.
"The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews"--Book jacket
Includes bibliographical references (p. [619]-633) and index.
Jews in czarist Russia -- Jews in the USSR and in the annexed territories between the two world wars -- German-Soviet relations and geopolitical changes in eastern Europe -- The Jews in the Soviet annexed territories -- Preparations in Germany for the attack on the Soviet Union and the annihilation of the Jews -- Invasion under the slogan "War on Judeo-Bolshevism" -- Evacuation of the Soviet population: Jews in organized and individual evacuation -- Anti-Jewish pogroms during the early days of occupation -- The German administration in the occupied territories and its anti-Jewish policy -- Einsatzgruppen routes of advance and method of extermination -- Reichskommissariat Ostland: ghettos and extermination -- Reichskommissariat Ukraine: ghettos and extermination -- Military administration areas: ghettos and extermination -- Extermination of the Jews of Crimea -- The German army from "freedom of action" for the Einsatzgruppen to active collaboration in the murders -- Persecution of the Jews in District Galicia -- Romania and Transnistria: expulsion and mass murder -- The killing actions in Ostland and the Grodno-Volkovysk region (Generalbezirk Bialystok) -- Annihilation in Reichskommissariat Ukraine -- Mass murder in District Galicia: Operation Reinhard -- Annihilation in areas under military administration -- Transnistria: life in the shadow of death -- Liquidation of the last ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ostland -- Liquidation of the last ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ukraine -- Survival in Transnistria -- Action 1005 -- The murder of mixed marriages, their offspring, and Jewish children in boardinghouses -- The murder of Jewish prisons of war -- Extermination in Ostland of Jews from the third Reich -- Confiscation and plunder -- The pillage of cultural assets -- The local population -- The righteous among the nations -- Attitudes of the churches and clergy toward the German administration and its anti-Jewish policy -- The individual, the public, and Jewish councils in a battle for survival -- The Jewish armed underground in the ghettos -- The Jews in forests and the partisan movement -- Blood account: casualties and survivors.
"The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews"--Book jacket
Jews
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Antisemitism