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The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps, ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt comparism is to The Gulag Archipelago of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. This definitive edition of The Black Book, including for the first time materials omitted from previous editions, is a major addition to the literature on the Holocaust. It will be of particular interest to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust and those interested in the history of Europe.
By the end of 1942, 1.4 million Jews had been killed by the Einsatzgruppen that followed the German army eastward; by the end of the war, nearly two million had been murdered in Russia and Eastern Europe. Of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, about one-third fell in the territories of the USSR. The single most important text documenting that slaughter is The Black Book, compiled by two renowned Russian authors Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman. Until now, The Black Book was only available in English in truncated editions. Because of its profound significance, this new and definitive English translation of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a major literary and intellectual event.
From the time of the outbreak of the war, Ehrenburg and Grossman collected the eyewitness testimonies that went into The Black Book. As early as 1943 they were planning its publication; the first edition appeared in 1944. During the years immediately after the war, Grossman assisted Ehrenburg in compiling additional materials for a second edition, which appeared in 1946 (in English as well as Russian).
Since the fall of the Soviet regime, Irina Ehrenburg, the daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg, has recovered the lost portions of the manuscript sent to Yad Vashem. The texts recovered by Ms. Ehrenburg include numerous documents that had been censored from the original manuscript, as well as items that had been hidden by the Grossman family. In addition, she verified and, where appropriate, corrected the accuracy of documents that had already appeared in earlier editions of The Black Book.
Industry Reviews
-Outstanding Title! Originally scheduled for publication in 1947 by the Soviet government, the Jewish authors of this volume became victims of Stalin's antisemitic purge following the end of WW II, and the book was forbidden publication... Based on eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, and other documentary evidence, the book describes in detail the Nazi massacres at Babi Yar, Minsk, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Vilnius, and other areas of German-occupied Russia and Poland. This new and definitive English translation is a major literary and intellectual event and will remain the indispensable account of the Nazi genocide against the Jews in the Soviet Union, where about one-third of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust were annihilated by the Germans. Of particular use to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust, this book should be included in all library collections. All levels.-
--J. Fischel, Choice
-Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest.-
- TLS
-You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English.-
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
-[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full -official- text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets.-
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
-This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience.-
- Jewish Currents
-Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered at least one million Russian Jews during the Holocaust. Now, more than fifty years after Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman compiled the documents--diaries, letters, reports, and eyewitness testimonies--that fill the devastating pages of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, David Patterson's awesome translation makes this entire testimony available in English for the first time and drives home his contention that -one cannot claim to know something about the Holocaust and know nothing about The Black Book.- Thanks to Ehrenburg, Grossman, and Patterson, their dedicated translator, English-speaking readers will see more clearly how the Nazis intended the annihilation of Jewish life to signify the destruction of the very idea of a common humanity that all people share.-
--John K. Roth, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
-This heart breaking and detailed account of Jewish life, resistance, and death in Eastern Europe is crucial for anyone wishing to study, reflect on, and be informed about the Holocaust. Victims, both those who survived and those who perished, tell their stories; deprivation, torture, the cruelty and deception of the Nazis and their many helpers, it is all here for the reader to take into her/his mind and soul. Some of these testimonies were introduced as evidence at the Nurenberg Trials. This expanded edition of the book, initially published by Ilya Ehrenberg and Vasily Grossman, was compiled by Ehrenberg's daughter, Irina. Progessor David Patterson's lucid translation and editing brings the nightmare world of the Shoah to our consciousness. For the first time, in English translation, we have detailed access to the fate of Lithuanian Jewry. This is a vital addition to those books about the Holocaust which must be read.-
--Alan L. Berger, Raddock Eminent Scholar of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University "Outstanding Title! Originally scheduled for publication in 1947 by the Soviet government, the Jewish authors of this volume became victims of Stalin's antisemitic purge following the end of WW II, and the book was forbidden publication... Based on eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, and other documentary evidence, the book describes in detail the Nazi massacres at Babi Yar, Minsk, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Vilnius, and other areas of German-occupied Russia and Poland. This new and definitive English translation is a major literary and intellectual event and will remain the indispensable account of the Nazi genocide against the Jews in the Soviet Union, where about one-third of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust were annihilated by the Germans. Of particular use to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust, this book should be included in all library collections. All levels."
--J. Fischel, Choice
"Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents
"Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered at least one million Russian Jews during the Holocaust. Now, more than fifty years after Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman compiled the documents--diaries, letters, reports, and eyewitness testimonies--that fill the devastating pages of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, David Patterson's awesome translation makes this entire testimony available in English for the first time and drives home his contention that "one cannot claim to know something about the Holocaust and know nothing about The Black Book." Thanks to Ehrenburg, Grossman, and Patterson, their dedicated translator, English-speaking readers will see more clearly how the Nazis intended the annihilation of Jewish life to signify the destruction of the very idea of a common humanity that all people share."
--John K. Roth, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
"This heart breaking and detailed account of Jewish life, resistance, and death in Eastern Europe is crucial for anyone wishing to study, reflect on, and be informed about the Holocaust. Victims, both those who survived and those who perished, tell their stories; deprivation, torture, the cruelty and deception of the Nazis and their many helpers, it is all here for the reader to take into her/his mind and soul. Some of these testimonies were introduced as evidence at the Nurenberg Trials. This expanded edition of the book, initially published by Ilya Ehrenberg and Vasily Grossman, was compiled by Ehrenberg's daughter, Irina. Progessor David Patterson's lucid translation and editing brings the nightmare world of the Shoah to our consciousness. For the first time, in English translation, we have detailed access to the fate of Lithuanian Jewry. This is a vital addition to those books about the Holocaust which must be read."
--Alan L. Berger, Raddock Eminent Scholar of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University "Outstanding Title! Originally scheduled for publication in 1947 by the Soviet government, the Jewish authors of this volume became victims of Stalin's antisemitic purge following the end of WW II, and the book was forbidden publication... Based on eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, and other documentary evidence, the book describes in detail the Nazi massacres at Babi Yar, Minsk, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Vilnius, and other areas of German-occupied Russia and Poland. This new and definitive English translation is a major literary and intellectual event and will remain the indispensable account of the Nazi genocide against the Jews in the Soviet Union, where about one-third of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust were annihilated by the Germans. Of particular use to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust, this book should be included in all library collections. All levels."
--J. Fischel, Choice
"Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents
"Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered at least one million Russian Jews during the Holocaust. Now, more than fifty years after Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman compiled the documents--diaries, letters, reports, and eyewitness testimonies--that fill the devastating pages of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, David Patterson's awesome translation makes this entire testimony available in English for the first time and drives home his contention that "one cannot claim to know something about the Holocaust and know nothing about The Black Book." Thanks to Ehrenburg, Grossman, and Patterson, their dedicated translator, English-speaking readers will see more clearly how the Nazis intended the annihilation of Jewish life to signify the destruction of the very idea of a common humanity that all people share."
--John K. Roth, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
"This heart breaking and detailed account of Jewish life, resistance, and death in Eastern Europe is crucial for anyone wishing to study, reflect on, and be informed about the Holocaust. Victims, both those who survived and those who perished, tell their stories; deprivation, torture, the cruelty and deception of the Nazis and their many helpers, it is all here for the reader to take into her/his mind and soul. Some of these testimonies were introduced as evidence at the Nurenberg Trials. This expanded edition of the book, initially published by Ilya Ehrenberg and Vasily Grossman, was compiled by Ehrenberg's daughter, Irina. Progessor David Patterson's lucid translation and editing brings the nightmare world of the Shoah to our consciousness. For the first time, in English translation, we have detailed access to the fate of Lithuanian Jewry. This is a vital addition to those books about the Holocaust which must be read."
--Alan L. Berger, Raddock Eminent Scholar of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University "Outstanding Title! Originally scheduled for publication in 1947 by the Soviet government, the Jewish authors of this volume became victims of Stalin's antisemitic purge following the end of WW II, and the book was forbidden publication... Based on eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, and other documentary evidence, the book describes in detail the Nazi massacres at Babi Yar, Minsk, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Vilnius, and other areas of German-occupied Russia and Poland. This new and definitive English translation is a major literary and intellectual event and will remain the indispensable account of the Nazi genocide against the Jews in the Soviet Union, where about one-third of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust were annihilated by the Germans. Of particular use to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust, this book should be included in all library collections. All levels."
--J. Fischel, Choice
"Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents "Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents "Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents
--J. Fischel, Choice
-Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest.-
- TLS
-You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English.-
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
-[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full -official- text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets.-
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
-This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience.-
- Jewish Currents
-Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered at least one million Russian Jews during the Holocaust. Now, more than fifty years after Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman compiled the documents--diaries, letters, reports, and eyewitness testimonies--that fill the devastating pages of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, David Patterson's awesome translation makes this entire testimony available in English for the first time and drives home his contention that -one cannot claim to know something about the Holocaust and know nothing about The Black Book.- Thanks to Ehrenburg, Grossman, and Patterson, their dedicated translator, English-speaking readers will see more clearly how the Nazis intended the annihilation of Jewish life to signify the destruction of the very idea of a common humanity that all people share.-
--John K. Roth, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
-This heart breaking and detailed account of Jewish life, resistance, and death in Eastern Europe is crucial for anyone wishing to study, reflect on, and be informed about the Holocaust. Victims, both those who survived and those who perished, tell their stories; deprivation, torture, the cruelty and deception of the Nazis and their many helpers, it is all here for the reader to take into her/his mind and soul. Some of these testimonies were introduced as evidence at the Nurenberg Trials. This expanded edition of the book, initially published by Ilya Ehrenberg and Vasily Grossman, was compiled by Ehrenberg's daughter, Irina. Progessor David Patterson's lucid translation and editing brings the nightmare world of the Shoah to our consciousness. For the first time, in English translation, we have detailed access to the fate of Lithuanian Jewry. This is a vital addition to those books about the Holocaust which must be read.-
--Alan L. Berger, Raddock Eminent Scholar of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University "Outstanding Title! Originally scheduled for publication in 1947 by the Soviet government, the Jewish authors of this volume became victims of Stalin's antisemitic purge following the end of WW II, and the book was forbidden publication... Based on eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, and other documentary evidence, the book describes in detail the Nazi massacres at Babi Yar, Minsk, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Vilnius, and other areas of German-occupied Russia and Poland. This new and definitive English translation is a major literary and intellectual event and will remain the indispensable account of the Nazi genocide against the Jews in the Soviet Union, where about one-third of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust were annihilated by the Germans. Of particular use to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust, this book should be included in all library collections. All levels."
--J. Fischel, Choice
"Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents
"Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered at least one million Russian Jews during the Holocaust. Now, more than fifty years after Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman compiled the documents--diaries, letters, reports, and eyewitness testimonies--that fill the devastating pages of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, David Patterson's awesome translation makes this entire testimony available in English for the first time and drives home his contention that "one cannot claim to know something about the Holocaust and know nothing about The Black Book." Thanks to Ehrenburg, Grossman, and Patterson, their dedicated translator, English-speaking readers will see more clearly how the Nazis intended the annihilation of Jewish life to signify the destruction of the very idea of a common humanity that all people share."
--John K. Roth, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
"This heart breaking and detailed account of Jewish life, resistance, and death in Eastern Europe is crucial for anyone wishing to study, reflect on, and be informed about the Holocaust. Victims, both those who survived and those who perished, tell their stories; deprivation, torture, the cruelty and deception of the Nazis and their many helpers, it is all here for the reader to take into her/his mind and soul. Some of these testimonies were introduced as evidence at the Nurenberg Trials. This expanded edition of the book, initially published by Ilya Ehrenberg and Vasily Grossman, was compiled by Ehrenberg's daughter, Irina. Progessor David Patterson's lucid translation and editing brings the nightmare world of the Shoah to our consciousness. For the first time, in English translation, we have detailed access to the fate of Lithuanian Jewry. This is a vital addition to those books about the Holocaust which must be read."
--Alan L. Berger, Raddock Eminent Scholar of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University "Outstanding Title! Originally scheduled for publication in 1947 by the Soviet government, the Jewish authors of this volume became victims of Stalin's antisemitic purge following the end of WW II, and the book was forbidden publication... Based on eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, and other documentary evidence, the book describes in detail the Nazi massacres at Babi Yar, Minsk, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Vilnius, and other areas of German-occupied Russia and Poland. This new and definitive English translation is a major literary and intellectual event and will remain the indispensable account of the Nazi genocide against the Jews in the Soviet Union, where about one-third of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust were annihilated by the Germans. Of particular use to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust, this book should be included in all library collections. All levels."
--J. Fischel, Choice
"Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents
"Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered at least one million Russian Jews during the Holocaust. Now, more than fifty years after Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman compiled the documents--diaries, letters, reports, and eyewitness testimonies--that fill the devastating pages of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, David Patterson's awesome translation makes this entire testimony available in English for the first time and drives home his contention that "one cannot claim to know something about the Holocaust and know nothing about The Black Book." Thanks to Ehrenburg, Grossman, and Patterson, their dedicated translator, English-speaking readers will see more clearly how the Nazis intended the annihilation of Jewish life to signify the destruction of the very idea of a common humanity that all people share."
--John K. Roth, Russell K. Pitzer Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College
"This heart breaking and detailed account of Jewish life, resistance, and death in Eastern Europe is crucial for anyone wishing to study, reflect on, and be informed about the Holocaust. Victims, both those who survived and those who perished, tell their stories; deprivation, torture, the cruelty and deception of the Nazis and their many helpers, it is all here for the reader to take into her/his mind and soul. Some of these testimonies were introduced as evidence at the Nurenberg Trials. This expanded edition of the book, initially published by Ilya Ehrenberg and Vasily Grossman, was compiled by Ehrenberg's daughter, Irina. Progessor David Patterson's lucid translation and editing brings the nightmare world of the Shoah to our consciousness. For the first time, in English translation, we have detailed access to the fate of Lithuanian Jewry. This is a vital addition to those books about the Holocaust which must be read."
--Alan L. Berger, Raddock Eminent Scholar of Holocaust Studies, Florida Atlantic University "Outstanding Title! Originally scheduled for publication in 1947 by the Soviet government, the Jewish authors of this volume became victims of Stalin's antisemitic purge following the end of WW II, and the book was forbidden publication... Based on eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, and other documentary evidence, the book describes in detail the Nazi massacres at Babi Yar, Minsk, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Vilnius, and other areas of German-occupied Russia and Poland. This new and definitive English translation is a major literary and intellectual event and will remain the indispensable account of the Nazi genocide against the Jews in the Soviet Union, where about one-third of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust were annihilated by the Germans. Of particular use to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust, this book should be included in all library collections. All levels."
--J. Fischel, Choice
"Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents "Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents "Only the most benighted Holocaust denier could read this volume without flinching. For the rest of us this is history almost to raw for us to digest."
- TLS
"You and Transaction are making an enormous contribution to the historical record by publishing the text of The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry in English."
- Professor Joshua Rubenstein, Harvard University, Davis Center for Russian Studies
"[The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry] can claim to be the most complete of all: it contains the full "official" text as well as all the materials that Soviet censorship excised in the main accounts of local collaboration. It is a translation of the Russian text published in Vilnius in 1993 (although without the photo-documentation of that edition). In this edition, materials that were removed by the censor are included in brackets."
- John D. Klier, Journal of Modern History
"This book details the horrors of the atrocities that the Germans inflicted on the Jews--the humiliation and torture and mass murder, and the horror of their plans to commit such acts against humanity....Reading this book is a harrowing experience."
- Jewish Currents
| Translator's Preface | p. i |
| Foreword | p. v |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Introduction to the Russian Edition | p. xvii |
| From the Editors of The Black Book | p. xxi |
| Preface | p. xxiii |
| The Ukraine | |
| Kiev: Babi Yar, an article based on documentary materials and depositions from the people of Kiev | p. 3 |
| The Murder of the Jews of Berdichev | p. 12 |
| Talnoe | p. 20 |
| Resistance in Yarmolitsy (Kamenets, Podolsk District) | p. 21 |
| How the Woman Dr. Langman Perished (Sorochitsy) | p. 21 |
| In the Town of Chmelnik (Vinnitsa District) | p. 22 |
| In the Village of Yaryshev | p. 27 |
| In the Settlement of Tsybulevo | p. 28 |
| In the Village of Yaltushkov | p. 28 |
| In My Hometown (Brailov) | p. 29 |
| What I Survived in Kharkov | p. 37 |
| Pyotr Chepurenko, Witness to the Piryatin Massacre | p. 41 |
| The Death of the Jewish Collective Farm Workers in Zelenopol | p. 41 |
| Letters from Dnepropetrovsk, Letters from the Indikt couple | p. 42 |
| The Day of 13 October 1941 | p. 46 |
| The Story of A. M. Burtseva | p. 46 |
| The Story of I. A. Revenskaya | p. 47 |
| The Story of B. I. Tartakovskaya | p. 48 |
| A Letter from Military Officer Granovsky (Ekaterinopol) | p. 49 |
| The Diary of Sarra Gleikh (Mariupol) | p. 50 |
| Odessa | p. 55 |
| Chernovitsy under the German-Romanian Occupation | p. 65 |
| The Story of Rakhil Fradis-Milner (Chernovitsy) | p. 70 |
| The Extermination of the Jews of Lvov | p. 76 |
| Thirteen Days in Hiding: The Story of Lily Herts (Lvov) | p. 86 |
| My Comrade the Partisan Yakov Barer (A Letter from Boris Khandros) | p. 91 |
| In the Penyatsky Forests: A Letter from an Intelligence Officer (Lvov District) | p. 92 |
| The Germans in Radzivillov (Krasnoarmeisk) | p. 93 |
| A Letter from Syunya Deresh (Izyaslav) | p. 98 |
| Letters from Orphans | p. 99 |
| German-Romanian Brutality in Kishinev (Moldavia) | p. 99 |
| Belorussia | |
| The Minsk Ghetto | p. 109 |
| Leaders of the Underground Fighters in the Minsk Ghetto | p. 138 |
| The Young Women from Minsk | p. 154 |
| The Story of an Old Man | p. 155 |
| In the Village of Gory | p. 158 |
| The Murder of the Jews of Glubokoe and Other Villages | p. 159 |
| The Story of Engineer Pikman from Mozyr | p. 169 |
| The Story of Dr. Olga Goldfain | p. 172 |
| Brest, Depositions and Documentary Testimony of the Residents of Brest | p. 176 |
| The Tragedy of My Life, a letter from Red Army soldier Kiselev | p. 184 |
| A Letter from Red Army Soldier Gofman (Krasnopole, Mogilev District) | p. 185 |
| In the Pit | p. 185 |
| The Story of a Little Girl from Bialystok | p. 187 |
| Liozno | p. 187 |
| Letters from Belorussian Children (From the Starye Zhuravli Settlement, Gomel District) | p. 188 |
| A Letter Written by Zlata Vishnyatskaya Prior to Her Death | p. 189 |
| The Temchin Family from Slutsk (Passages from Letters Received by the Pilot Efim Temchin) | p. 190 |
| From Materials Compiled by the Special State Commission on the Verification and Investigation of Atrocities Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders, Depositions of Soviet Citizens | p. 193 |
| In Bialystok | p. 197 |
| The "Brenners" of Bialystok: The Story of Two Workers in the City of Bialystok, Shimon Amiel and Zalman Edelman | p. 203 |
| The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic | |
| The Smolensk Area | p. 211 |
| Shamovo | p. 211 |
| Krasny | p. 212 |
| The Fate of Isaak Rozenberg | p. 213 |
| Rostov on the Don | p. 214 |
| Doctor Kremenchuzhsky | p. 217 |
| "Where Are They Taking Us?" | p. 217 |
| In Stavropol | p. 218 |
| The Germans in Kislovodsk | p. 219 |
| Essentuki | p. 222 |
| The Story of Iosif Vaingertner, a Fisherman from Kerch | p. 223 |
| Yalta | p. 227 |
| Fishgoit's Report | p. 227 |
| Murder in Dzhankoy | p. 231 |
| How Dr. Fidelev Was Murdered | p. 233 |
| The Painter Zhivotvorsky | p. 235 |
| Lithuania | |
| The Vilna Ghetto | p. 241 |
| The First Days | p. 241 |
| The "Hunters" | p. 243 |
| In the Lukishki Prison | p. 243 |
| Schweinberger | p. 245 |
| Ponary | p. 246 |
| Three Stories of People Saved from Death | p. 246 |
| The Story of Motel Gdud | p. 246 |
| The Story of Khiena Katz | p. 247 |
| The Story of Solomon Garbel | p. 248 |
| Murer | p. 249 |
| Schweinberger's Successor Martin Weiss | p. 250 |
| The Fate of the Elderly | p. 252 |
| Degner | p. 252 |
| Grounds for the Arrest of Jews | p. 252 |
| Weiss's Inoculations against Typhus | p. 253 |
| The Story of Fruma-Riva Burshtein of Novogrudok | p. 253 |
| Golda Krizhevskaya | p. 254 |
| The Extermination of the Children in the HKP Camp | p. 255 |
| Shmulik Kotlyar | p. 256 |
| Leibl Finkelshtein | p. 257 |
| The Fate of the Children Who Were Taken Away | p. 257 |
| Clothing | p. 257 |
| Kittel | p. 258 |
| In Alfred Rosenberg's Office | p. 262 |
| Martyrs of the Ghetto | p. 265 |
| Tiktin | p. 265 |
| Levitskaya | p. 266 |
| A Mathematician | p. 267 |
| The United Partisan Organization of the Vilna Ghetto (UPO) | p. 268 |
| The First Proclamation | p. 268 |
| Weapons | p. 270 |
| The Struggle Has Begun | p. 272 |
| Sabotage | p. 274 |
| Ties with Other Cities | p. 276 |
| The Underground Printing Press | p. 277 |
| Close Friendships | p. 279 |
| Aid to Prisoners of War and the Families of Soviet Soldiers | p. 281 |
| How We Celebrated May Day 1943 | p. 283 |
| Isaak Vitenberg | p. 283 |
| "Liza Calls" | p. 285 |
| Fallen Heroes | p. 287 |
| The Struggle Continues in the Forest | p. 288 |
| The Last Act of the Tragedy | p. 291 |
| Digging Out and Escape | p. 292 |
| The Diary of E. Yerushalmi of Siauliai (Shavli) | p. 294 |
| From the Editors | p. 294 |
| From the Editors | p. 295 |
| A Brief Account of Events that Took Place from 28 June to 23 November 1941 | p. 296 |
| The Ghetto | p. 296 |
| From the Diary | p. 300 |
| The Death Forts of Kovno (Kaunas) | p. 314 |
| The Seventh Fort | p. 314 |
| The Fourth Fort | p. 315 |
| The Sixth Fort | p. 316 |
| The Ninth Fort | p. 316 |
| The Mass Murder of Kovno Residents in the Fall of 1941 | p. 316 |
| The Mass Murder of People Transported from Germany and Other West European Countries | p. 318 |
| The Destruction of Mass Graves | p. 318 |
| The Escape of Prisoners from the Ninth Fort | p. 322 |
| The Ninth Fort After the Prisoners' Escape | p. 324 |
| The Last Traces of the Crimes | p. 325 |
| The Kovno Ghetto Fighters | p. 326 |
| Doctor Elena Buividaite-Kutorgene | p. 333 |
| From the Diary of Doctor Elena Buividaite-Kutorgene (June - December 1941) | p. 335 |
| The Fate of the Jews of Telshiai: The Story of Galina Masyulis and Susanna Kogan | p. 368 |
| Latvia | |
| Riga | p. 379 |
| The Germans Enter the City | p. 379 |
| Night over Riga | p. 381 |
| The First Days of the Occupation | p. 382 |
| The Ghetto | p. 386 |
| Aktion | p. 387 |
| "Deportation" from the Ghetto | p. 391 |
| The Jews from Germany | p. 392 |
| The Salaspils Concentration Camp | p. 394 |
| From the Notebook of the Sculptor Elik Rivosh (Riga) | p. 396 |
| The Story of Sema Shpungin (Dvinsk) | p. 411 |
| The Soviet People are United | |
| A Letter from Officers Levchenko, Borisov, and Chesnokov (Lopavshi, Rovno District) | p. 419 |
| The Peasant Woman Zinaida Vashchishina (Dombrovitsy, Rovno District) | p. 420 |
| Collective Farmer Yuliya Kukhta Saved Jewish Children | p. 421 |
| I Was Adopted by the Lukinsky Family: A Report by Polina Ausker-Lukinskaya | p. 422 |
| The Teachers Golneva, Terekhova, and Timofeeva | p. 425 |
| The Bookkeeper Zirchenko | p. 426 |
| The Story of F. M. Gontova | p. 426 |
| One Survived: The Story of Evsey Efimovich Gopstein | p. 427 |
| The Orthodox Priest Glagolev | p. 430 |
| The Roman Catholic Priest Bronyus Paukshtis | p. 435 |
| The Annihilation Camps | |
| Ponary: The Story of Engineer Yu. Farber | p. 439 |
| In the Khorol Concentration Camp | p. 453 |
| The Camp at Klooga (Estonia) | p. 457 |
| From the Editors | p. 457 |
| Zaintraub, a Student from the Vilnius University | p. 457 |
| Anolik | p. 459 |
| E. Yerushalmi | p. 460 |
| Vatsnik | p. 461 |
| Benyamin Anolik, Junior | p. 462 |
| Treblinka | p. 462 |
| The Children from the Black Road | p. 483 |
| The Uprising at Sobibor | p. 487 |
| The Report of the Special State Commission for the Verification and Investigation of Atrocities Committed by the German Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices in the Monstrous Crimes of the German Government in Auschwitz | p. 500 |
| Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler, Organizer of the Auschwitz Annihilation Camp | p. 501 |
| German Fascist Professors and Physicians: Murderers of the Prisoners in Auschwitz | p. 503 |
| At Auschwitz the German Executioners Murdered Citizens of Every Country in Europe | p. 506 |
| Auschwitz: The Mass Production of Death | p. 507 |
| Murderers of Children | p. 510 |
| The Extermination of the Intelligentsia | p. 511 |
| The Hitlerite Plunderers | p. 512 |
| The Hitlerite Thugs Murdered More than Four Million People in Auschwitz | p. 513 |
| Calling the German-Fascists to a Serious Accounting | p. 514 |
| A Girl from Auschwitz (No. 74233) | p. 514 |
| Twenty-Six Months in Auschwitz: The Story of Mordecai Tsirulnitsky, Former Inmate No. 79414 | p. 522 |
| In the Village of Ostrino | p. 522 |
| In the Kelbasino Camp | p. 524 |
| The First Months in Auschwitz | p. 524 |
| At the Factory | p. 528 |
| The Story of Former Prisoner of War M. Scheinman | p. 532 |
| The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | p. 542 |
| Executioners | |
| The Racial Politics of Hitlerism and Anti-Semitism | p. 561 |
| Himmler's Order (From Freies Deutschland, No. 23, 19 December 1943) | p. 564 |
| Text of a German Dispatch Found in the Region of Rossoshi among Staff Documents of the 15th German Police Regiment, Concluding Report | p. 564 |
| Executioners | p. 566 |
| From the Deposition of Captain Salog, Police Regiment Commander | p. 567 |
| Excerpts from the Diary of Prisoner of War Karl Johannes Drexel, Lance Corporal | p. 574 |
| From the Deposition of Private First Class Christian Farber | p. 574 |
| An Excerpt from the Protocol of the Cross-Examination of the Prisoner of War Lance Corporal Erich Heubaum | p. 575 |
| From the Deposition of the Prisoner of War Corporal Heinrich Michael Wenkriech | p. 576 |
| From the Deposition of Wolfgang Janiko | p. 577 |
| From the Protocol of the Cross-Examination of the Prisoner of War Private First Class Albert Ender | p. 577 |
| Protocol of the Interrogation of Wilhelm Sudbrak | p. 578 |
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ISBN: 9780765800695
ISBN-10: 0765800691
Published: 31st July 2001
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 628
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Type: New edition
Dimensions (cm): 25.4 x 17.78 x 3.33
Weight (kg): 1.27
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