Book Description

An American version of "The Black Book" prepared by the U.S. Executive of the joint Soviet-American Jewish Black Book Committee, based mainly on the materials collected by the American chapter of this organization, as well as on materials sent by the Soviet Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to the USA in 1944. It is structured as a history of the Holocaust, interspersed with documents and excerpts from eyewitness accounts (by perpetrators and victims), from contemporary newspapers, and from essays by Soviet Jewish writers. Dwells on Nazi antisemitism and propaganda, the Nazi anti-Jewish laws, Nazi policies against the Jews (e.g. expulsion, starvation, forced labor), Nazi mass murder of Jews, and Jewish resistance to the genocide. Pp. 469-519 contain photographs of some documents and their English translation.