Bitter Legacy

by Gitelman, Zvi Y.

• ISBN13: 9780253333599
• ISBN10: 0253333598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"... 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
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