Pioneers and Partisans - An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia

Zusatztext Anika Walke's book is an important contribution to the study of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and the history of Belarusian Jewry. Informationen zum Autor Anika Walke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis. Klappentext The book 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 they remember it after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Zusammenfassung The book 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 they remember it after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Note on transliteration Maps Introduction Chapter 1: On Methodology: Oral History and the Nazi Genocide Chapter 2: Between Tradition and Transformation: Soviet Jews in the 1930s Chapter 3: The End of Childhood: Young Soviet Jews in the Minsk Ghetto Chapter 4: Suffering and Survival: The Destruction of Jewish Communities in Eastern Belorussia Chapter 5: Fighting for Life and Victory: Refugees from the Ghettos and the Soviet Partisan Movement Chapter 6: Of Refuge and Resistance: Labor for Survival in the "Zorin Family Unit" Conclusion: Soviet Internationalism, Judaism, and the Nazi Genocide in Oral Histories Sources

Product details

• Authors: Anika Walke, Anika (Assistant Professor Walke, Walke Anika
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2015
• EAN: 9780199335534
• ISBN: 978-0-19-933553-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Oxford Oral History Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Oral History, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Belarus, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Belarus (Belorussia), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front