Holocaust Memory and Censorship in the Soviet Union
Dublin Core
Title
Holocaust Memory and Censorship in the Soviet Union
Subject
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Soviet Union
Holocaust survivors' writings
Jews--Soviet Union--History
Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union
Censorship--Soviet Union
Soviet Union--Ethnic relations
Description
This collection brings together rare and endangered materials documenting the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Soviet territories and the fraught history of Jewish memory under the Soviet Union. Centred on the 1946 English-language edition of The Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People, the collection includes a wartime photograph of its editors, Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman, and a Yiddish poem and audio recording by Itsik Fefer. These objects—texts, images, and sounds—reflect a brief moment of affirmation for Jewish identity and anti-fascist resistance, later swept away by state repression, censorship, and historical erasure. The collection aims to support research, education, and remembrance, offering a window into the struggles of preserving memory in the face of both destruction and censorship.
Creator
Lila Whitehead
Date
August 2025
Rights
In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted (InC‑EDU); see https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ for details.
Language
English, Yiddish
Coverage
Soviet Union; 1939-1945
Collection Items
The Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People
A compilation of testimonies and documentation detailing the Nazi genocide of Jews in the Soviet Union, authored by Soviet Jewish writers and war journalists Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman for the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. Although…
Photograph of Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman
Black-and-white photograph showing Soviet Jewish writers and war journalists Ilya Ehrenburg (front left) and Vasily Grossman (front right) in uniform during World War II. The image documents their wartime collaboration and role in collecting…
