The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253222680 ISBN 13: 9780253222688

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2010

Synopsis

On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941, Ukraine was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, some 1.4 million Jews were killed there, and one of the most important centres of Jewish life was destroyed. Yet, little is known about this chapter of Holocaust history. Drawing on archival sources from the former Soviet Union and bringing together researchers from Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States, The Shoah in Ukraine sheds light on the critical themes of perpetration, collaboration, Jewish-Ukrainian relations, testimony, rescue, and Holocaust remembrance in Ukraine. Contributors are Andrej Angrick, Omer Bartov, Karel C. Berkhoff, Ray Brandon, Martin Dean, Dennis Deletant, Frank Golczewski, Alexander Kruglov, Wendy Lower, Dieter Pohl, and Timothy Snyder.

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"This collection is a worthy enterprise that offers new insights into the Holocaust on the territory of contemporary Ukraine. ...The investigation of the Holocaust in Ukraine, as well as in Belarus to the north where some 900,000 Jews died, is finally under way." --American Historical Review

"Bitter memories and the specter of the Holocaust continue to haunt Jewish-Ukrainian relations... Only a full admission of the disturbing facts of the past and a full respect for the perpetuation of the memory of the former Jewish communities may at least partly exorcise the guilt and open a new page [in their] mutual relations. Perhaps this book may serve as one of the guiding lights in this direction." Jerusalem Post "An excellent volume that approaches the Holocaust in Ukraine from a variety of angles... Highlights the complexity of the 'Final Solution' in Ukraine." Jeff Rutherford "Deserving special note are Timothy Snyder's chapter on Volhynian Jewry for its elegant and diligent use of both general and Jewish sources; and Karel C. Berkhoff 's sensitive analysis of the various testimonies of Dina Pronicheva, who survived the nightmarish Babi Yar massacre. Omer Bar-Tov concludes the book with an overview of how the Jewish facets of Eastern Galicia's history are systematically ignored and erased by Ukrainians in whose historical consciousness there is no room for how Jews lived and were murdered in a region that was a center of Jewish culture and religion." Jewish Book World "A useful introduction to a very complex topic, but it also highlights the work remaining for scholars in Ukraine and elsewhere and the continuing need for further international scholarly collaboration." --Sean Martin, The Russian Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0253222680
• ISBN 13: 9780253222688
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Brandon Ray, Lower Wendy