The complete black book of Russian Jewry : [prepared by] Ilya Ehrenburg, Vasily Grossman

The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is 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 comparison 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 . Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Translator's Preface Foreword Introduction Introduction to the Russian Edition From the Editors of The Black Book Preface Part 1: The Ukraine Kiev: Babi Yar, an article based on documentary materials and depositions from the people of Kiev The Murder of the Jews of Berdichev Talnoe Resistance in Yarmolitsy (Kamenets, Podolsk District) How the Woman Dr. Langman Perished (Sorochitsy) In the Town of Chmelnik (Vinnitsa District) In the Village of Yaryshev In the Settlement of Tsybulevo In the Village of Yaltushkov In My Hometown (Brailov) What I Survived in Kharkov Pyotr Chepurenko, Witness to the Piryatin Massacre The Death of the Jewish Collective Farm Workers in Zelenopol Letters from Dnepropetrovsk, Letters from the Indikt couple The Day of 13 October 1941 The Story of A. M . Burtseva The Story of I. A. Revenskaya The Story of B. I. Tartakovskaya A Letter from Military Officer Granovsky (Ekaterinopol) The Diary of Sarra Gleikh (Mariupol) Odessa Chernovitsy under the German-Romanian Occupation The Story of Rakhil Fradis-Milner (Chernovitsy) The Extermination of the Jews of Lvov Thirteen Days in Hiding: The Story of Lily Herts (Lvov) My Comrade the Partisan Yakov Barer (A Letter from Boris Khandros) In the Penyatsky Forests: A Letter from an Intelligence Officer (Lvov District) The Germans in Radzivillov (Krasnoarmeisk) A Letter from Syunya Deresh (Izyaslav) Letters from Orphans German-Romanian Brutality in Kishinev (Moldavia) Part 2: Belorussia The Minsk Ghetto Leaders of the Underground Fighters in the Minsk Ghetto The Young Women from Minsk The Story of an Old Man In the Village of Gory The Murder of the Jews of Glubokoe and Other Villages The Story of Engineer Pikman from Mozyr The Story of Dr. Olga Goldfain Brest, Depositions and Documentary Testimony of the Residents of Brest The Tragedy of M yLife A Letter from Red Army Soldier Gofman (Krasnopole, Mogilev District) In the Pit The Story of a Little Girl from Bialystok Liozno Letters from Belorussian Children (From the Starye Zhuravli Settlement, Gomel District) A Letter Written by Zlata Vishnyatskaya Prior to Her Death The Temchin Family from Slutsk (Passages from Letters Received by the Pilot Efim Temchin) 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 In Bialystok The "Brenners" of Bialystok: The Story of Two Workers in the City of Bialystok, Shimon Amiel and Zalman Edelman Part 3: The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic The Smolensk Area Shamovo Krasny The Fate of Isaak Rozenberg Rostov on the Don Doctor Kremenchuzhsky "Where Are They Taking Us?" In Stavropol The Germans in Kislovodsk Essentuki The Story of Iosif Vaingertner, a Fisherman from Kerch Yalta Fishgoit's Report Murder in Dzhankoy How Dr. Fidelev Was Murdered The Painter Zhivotvorsky Part 4: Lithuania The Vilna Ghetto The First Days The "Hunters" In the Lukishki Prison Schweinberger Ponary Three Stories of People Saved from Death 1. The Story of Motel Gdud 2. The Story of Khiena Katz 3. The Story of Solomon Garbel Murer Schweinberger's Successor Martin Weiss The Fate of the Elderly Degner Grounds for the Arrest of Jews Weiss's Inoculations against Typhus The Story of Fruma-Riva Burshtein of Novogrudok Golda Krizhevskaya The Extermination of the Children in the HKP Camp Shmulik Kotlyar Leibl Finkelshtein The Fate of the Children Who Were Taken Away Clothing Kittel In Alfred Rosenberg's Office Martyrs of the Ghetto Tiktin Levitskaya A Mathematician The United Partisan Organization of the Vilna Ghetto (UPO) The First Proclamation Weapons The Struggle Has Begun Sabotage Ties with Other Cities The Underground Printing Press Close Friendships Aid to Prisoners of War and the Families of Soviet Soldiers How We Celebrated May Day 1943 Isaak Vitenberg "Liza Calls" Fallen Heroes The Struggle Continues in the Forest The Last Act of the Tragedy Digging Out and Escape The Diary of E. Yerushalmi of Siauliai (Shavli) From the Editors From the Editors A Brief Account of Events that Took Place from 28 June to 23 November 1941 The Ghetto From the Diary The Death Forts of Kovno (Kaunas) The Seventh Fort The Fourth Fort The Sixth Fort The Ninth Fort 1. The Mass Murder of Kovno Residents in the Fall of 1941 2. The Mass Murder of People Transported from Germany and Other West European Countries 3. The Destruction of Mass Graves 4. The Escape of Prisoners from the Ninth Fort 5. The Ninth Fort After the Prisoners' Escape 6. The Last Traces of the Crimes The Kovno Ghetto Fighters Doctor Elena Buividaite-Kutorgene From the Diary of Doctor Elena Buividaite-Kutorgene (June - December 1941) The Fate of the Jews of Telshiai: The Story of Galina Masyulis and Susanna Kogan Part 5: Latvia Riga 1. The Germans Enter the City 2. Night over Riga 3. The First Days of the Occupation 4. The Ghetto 5. Aktion 6. "Deportation" from the Ghetto 7. The Jews from Germany 8. The Salaspils Concentration Camp From the Notebook of the Sculptor Elik Rivosh (Riga) The Story of Sema Shpungin (Dvinsk) Part 6: The Soviet People are United A Letter from Officers Levchenko, Borisov and Chesnokov (Lopavshi, Rovno District) The Peasant Woman Zinaida Vashchishina (Dombrovitsy, Rovno District) Collective Farmer Yuliya Kukhta Saved Jewish Children I Was Adopted by the Lukinsky Family: A Report by Polina Ausker-Lukinskaya The Teachers Golneva, Terekhova, and Timofeeva The Bookkeeper Zirchenko The Story of F. M . Gontova One Survived: The Story of Evsey Efimovich Gopstein The Orthodox Priest Glagolev The Roman Catholic Priest Bronyus Paukshtis Part 7: The Annihilation Camps Ponary: The Story of Engineer Yu. Farber In the Khorol Concentration Camp The Camp at Klooga (Estonia) From the Editors Zaintraub, a Student from the Vilnius University Anolik E. Yerushalmi Vatsnik Benyamin Anolik, Junior Treblinka The Children from the Black Road The Uprising at Sobibor 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 Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler, Organizer of the Auschwitz Annihilation Camp German Fascist Professors and Physicians: Murderers of the Prisoners in Auschwitz At Auschwitz the German Executioners Murdered Citizens of Every Country in Europe Auschwitz: The Mass Production of Death Murderers of Children The Extermination of the Intelligentsia The Hitlerite Plunderers The Hitlerite Thugs Murdered More than Four Million People in Auschwitz Calling the German-Fascists to a Serious Accounting A Girl from Auschwitz (No. 74233) Twenty-Six Months in Auschwitz: The Story of Mordecai Tsirulnitsky, Former Inmate No. 79414 1. In the Village of Ostrino 2. In the Kelbasino Camp 3. The First Months in Auschwitz 4. At the Factory The Story of Former Prisoner of War M . Scheinman The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Part 8: Executioners The Racial Politics of Hitlerism and Anti-Semitism Himmler's Order (From Freies Deutschland, No. 23, 19 December 1943) Text of a German Dispatch Found in the Region of Rossoshi among Staff Documents of the 15th German Police Regiment, Concluding Report Executioners From the Deposition of Captain Salog, Police Regiment Commander Excerpts from the Diary of Prisoner of War Karl Johannes Drexel, Lance Corporal From the Deposition of Private First Class Christian Farber An Excerpt from the Protocol of the Cross-Examination of the Prisoner of War Lance Corporal Erich Heubaum From the Deposition of the Prisoner of War Corporal Heinrich Michael Wenkriech From the Deposition of Wolfgang Janiko From the Protocol of the Cross-Examination of the Prisoner of War Private First Class Albert Ender Protocol of the Interrogation of Wilhelm Sudbrak

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.

The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is 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 .