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Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR
Contributor(s): Gitelman, Zvi (Editor)
ISBN: 0253333598     ISBN-13: 9780253333599
Publisher: Indiana University Press
OUR PRICE:   $36.05  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: November 1997
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..". a chronicle of man's bestiality to man, and therefore the few exceptional instances of courage and humanity shine forth with particular brightness." -- The Russian Review

"Essential reading for any holocaust course." -- Religious Studies Review

Bitter Legacy collects scholarship from America, Israel, Russia, Germany, and the Ukraine on the perpetration of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and its lasting consequences from the postwar period through post-Soviet times. Newly accessible wartime archives in the former Soviet Union provide chilling details of what happened, of collaboration with the Nazis, and of rescue efforts, too.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Holocaust
- History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union
- Religion | Judaism - General
Dewey: 940.531
LCCN: 97025138
Physical Information: 1.12" H x 6.41" W x 9.55" (1.65 lbs) 344 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Russia
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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Publisher Description:

. . . a chronicle of man's bestiality to man, and therefore the few exceptional instances of courage and humanity shine forth with particular brightness. --The Russian Review

Essential reading for any holocaust course. --Religious Studies Review

Bitter Legacy collects scholarship from America, Israel, Russia, Germany, and the Ukraine on the perpetration of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and its lasting consequences from the postwar period through post-Soviet times. Newly accessible wartime archives in the former Soviet Union provide chilling details of what happened, of collaboration with the Nazis, and of rescue efforts, too.