The Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People

The Black Book: The Nazi Crime Against the Jewish People

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Soviet Union

Holocaust survivors' writings

Jews--Soviet Union--History

Censorship--Soviet Union

Jews--Persecutions--Soviet Union

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 publication was blocked in the Soviet Union, an English-language edition was released in the United States in 1946. The book’s suppression and survival illustrate both the scale of Nazi crimes and the postwar politics of memory under Soviet rule.

Ilya Ehrenburg; Vasily Grossman

Duell, Sloan and Pearce

1946

Jewish Black Book Committee

In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted (InC-EDU); see https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/

Photograph of Ehrenburg and Grossman; “Ikh bin a Yid” by Itsik Fefer

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Soviet Union; Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe (1939–1945)