The Shoah in Ukraine
Subtitle: History, Testimony, Memorialization
Contributors: Ray Brandon (Editor); Wendy Lower (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press; In association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Published: May 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780253350848
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); European history: Second World War; The Holocaust; World history; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe; Russia; Holocaust; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Jewish Studies
Description: On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941, Ukraine held the largest Jewish community in Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, some 1.4 million Jews were killed there. This volume sheds new light on themes of perpetration, collaboration, Jewish-Ukrainian relations, testimony, rescue and Holocaust remembrance in Ukraine.