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Zusatztext Pioneers and Partisans draws on the life histories of now-elderly child survivors to show how the Nazi occupation and genocide in Belorussia disrupted and ultimately reconfigured Jewish and Soviet identities and communities. With remarkable sensitivity and methodological sophistication, Walke attends to hesitations and inconsistencies in interviews and oral testimonies, tracing the effects of age and gender on women's and men's memories of their prewar childhoods, their wartime struggles to survive and resist, and their postwar lives. Informationen zum Autor Anika Walke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis. Klappentext Pioneers and Partisans weaves together oral histories, video testimonies, and memoirs produced in the former Soviet Union to show how the first generation of Soviet Jews, born after the foundation of the USSR, experienced the Nazi genocide and how it is remembered after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Zusammenfassung Pioneers and Partisans weaves together oral histories, video testimonies, and memoirs produced in the former Soviet Union to show how the first generation of Soviet Jews, born after the foundation of the USSR, experienced the Nazi genocide and how it is remembered after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Geopolitical Terminology Maps Introduction 1. On Methodology: Oral History and the Nazi Genocide 2. Between Tradition and Transformation: Soviet Jews in the 1930s 3. The End of Childhood: Young Soviet Jews in the Minsk Ghetto 4: Suffering and Survival: The Destruction of Jewish Communities in Eastern Belorussia 5. Fighting for Life and Victory: Refugees from the Ghettos and the Soviet Partisan Movement 6. Of Refuge and Resistance: Labor for Survival in the "Zorin Family Unit" Conclusion: Soviet Internationalism, Judaism, and the Nazi Genocide in Oral Histories Notes Sources Index ...
