The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Part 1. The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union before World War II......Page 20
1. Jews in Czarist Russia......Page 22
2. Jews in the USSR and in the Annexed Territories betweenthe Two World Wars......Page 35
Part 2. The Impact of Political and Military Developments on the Jews of Eastern Europe, September 1, 1939, to June 22, 1941......Page 52
3. German-Soviet Relations and Geopolitical Changes in Eastern Europe......Page 54
4. The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories......Page 61
5. Preparations in Germany for the Attack on the Soviet Union and the Annihilation of the Jews......Page 70
Part 3. The German Attack on the Soviet Union......Page 82
6. Invasion under the Slogan “War on Judeo-Bolshevism”......Page 84
7. Evacuation of the Soviet Population......Page 91
8. Anti-Jewish Pogroms during the Early Days of Occupation......Page 107
9. The German Administration in the Occupied Territories and Its Anti-Jewish Policy......Page 115
Part 4. Mass Murder, First Stage: June 22, 1941, to Winter 1941–42......Page 142
10. Einsatzgruppen Routes of Advance and Method of Extermination......Page 144
11. Reichskommissariat Ostland: Ghettos and Extermination......Page 160
12. Reichskommissariat Ukraine: Ghettos and Extermination......Page 182
13. Military Administration Areas: Ghettos and Extermination......Page 204
14. Extermination of the Jews of Crimea......Page 221
15. The German Army from “Freedom of Action” for the Einsatzgruppen to Active Collaboration in the Murders......Page 231
16. Persecution of the Jews in District Galicia......Page 242
17. Romania and Transnistria: Expulsion and Mass Murder......Page 248
Part 5. Mass Murder, Second Stage: From Spring to Late 1942......Page 268
18. The Killing Actions in Ostland and the Grodno-Volkovysk Region (Generalbezirk Bialystok)......Page 270
19. Annihilation in Reichskommissariat Ukraine......Page 282
20. Mass Murder in District Galicia: Operation Reinhard......Page 293
21. Annihilation in Areas under Military Administration......Page 305
22. Transnistria: Life in the Shadow of Death......Page 317
Part 6. Mass Murder, Third Stage: From Early 1943 until the End of German Occupation......Page 328
23. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ostland......Page 330
24. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ukraine......Page 353
25. Survival in Transnistria......Page 360
26. Action 1005......Page 366
Part 7. The Murder of Specific Jewish Groups......Page 376
27. The Murder of Mixed Marriages, Their Offspring, and Jewish Children in Boardinghouses......Page 378
28. The Murder of Jewish Prisoners of War......Page 395
29. Extermination in Ostland of Jews from the Third Reich......Page 407
Part 8. The Robbery of Jewish Property and Cultural Values......Page 416
30. Confiscation and Plunder......Page 418
31. The Pillage of Cultural Assets......Page 430
Part 9. Non-Jewish Society and Its Reaction to the Genocide of the Jews......Page 438
32. The Local Population......Page 440
33. The Righteous among the Nations......Page 449
34. Attitudes of the Churches and Clergy toward the German Administration and Its Anti-Jewish Policy......Page 459
Part 10. The Jews in Their Struggle for Life and in Armed Resistance......Page 470
35. The Individual, the Public,and Jewish Councils in a Battle for Survival......Page 472
36. The Jewish Armed Underground in the Ghettos......Page 501
37. The Jews in Forests and the Partisan Movement......Page 524
38. Blood Account: Casualties and Survivors......Page 536
Conclusion......Page 546
Epilogue: The Holocaust and Soviet Governing Authorities......Page 551
Notes......Page 564
Bibliography......Page 638
Index......Page 654