num_pages: 360
description: The murder of two-thirds of European Jews referred to by many as the Holocaust did not begin June 22 1941 with the German invasion of the Soviet Union or September 1 1939 with the beginning of WWII or with 1938 Kristallnacht or even with the 1933 rise of Hitler. It began on August 1 1914 with the start of WWI of which WWII was just its continuation. It was then that Russia's Imperial Army of Nicholas II committed the now largely forgotten genocide of Russian Jews. This book is the most extensive collection of eye-witness testimonies and official communications revealing the genocidal destruction of Jewish life by the Russian army during World War I. KHURBM 1914-1922: the Prelude to the Holocaust. The Beginning. makes available to English reader information much of it for the first time that one must consider when dealing with virtually any aspect of modern life.
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title: Khurbm: 1914–1922. Prelude to the Holocaust. The Beginning: Forgotten Genocide
publisher: Varda Books