Bitter Legacy

"... a chronicle of man's bestiality to man, and therefore the few exceptional instances of courage and humanity shine forth with particular brightness." -- The Russian Review"Essential reading for any holocaust course." -- Religious Studies ReviewBitter Legacy collects scholarship from America, Israel, Russia, Germany, and the Ukraine on the perpetration of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and its lasting consequences from the postwar period through post-Soviet times. Newly accessible wartime archives in the former Soviet Union provide chilling details of what happened, of collaboration with the Nazis, and of rescue efforts, too.

ZVI GITELMAN is Professor of Political Science and Director of Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is author of A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Present and Jewish Nationality and Soviet Politics: The Jewish Sections of the CPSU, 1917-1930.

Preface

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One: Soviet Jewry before the Holocaust

1

(13)

Zvi Gitelman

Two: Politics and the Historiography of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

14

(29)

Zvi Gitelman

Three: The Holocaust of Ukrainian Jews

43

(8)

Shmuel Spector

Four: The Nazi Genocide of the Jews and the Ukrainian Population (1941-1944)

51

(10)

M. I. Koval

Five: Metropolitan Andrii Sheptyts'kyi and the Complexities of Ukrainian-Jewish Relations

61

(16)

Shimon Redlich

Six: Antisemitism in Ukraine toward the End of World War II

77

(14)

Mordechai Altshuler

Seven: Nazi Policy toward the Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ostland, June-December 1941: From White Terror to Holocaust in Lithuania

91

(13)

Michael MacQueen

Eight: "Inventing" the Holocaust for Latvia: New Research

104

(19)

Hans-Heinrich Wilhelm

Nine: Jewish Refugees from Poland in the USSR, 1939-1946

123

(28)

Yosef Litvak

Ten: Jewish Warfare and the Participation of Jews in Combat in the Soviet Union as Reflected in Soviet and Western Historiography

151

(16)

Mordechai Altshuler

Eleven: Jewish-Lithuanian Relations during World War II: History and Rhetoric

167

(18)

Sara Shner-Neshamit

Twelve: Lithuanian-Jewish Relations in the Shadow of the Holocaust

185

(29)

Sima Ycikas

Thirteen: The Holocaust and the Armed Struggle in Belorussia as Reflected in Soviet Literature and Works by Emigres in the West

214

(16)

Shalom Cholawski

Fourteen: Soviet Jews under Nazi Occupation in Northeastern Belarus and Western Russia

230

(25)

Daniel Romanovsky

Documents

255

(68)

Fifteen: Nazi Directives

255

(9)

Sixteen: Nazi Actions

264

(11)

Seventeen: Eyewitness Accounts

275

(11)

Eighteen: Collaboration and Resistance

286

(7)

Nineteen: Rescue

293

(7)

Twenty: Bitter Legacy

300

(23)

Contributors

323

(2)

Index

325

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