Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem The Holocaust in the Soviet Union is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during the World War II and the Holocaust (1941–45). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews. Arad's examination of the differences between the Holocaust in the Soviet Union compared to other European nations reveals how Nazi ideological attacks on the Soviet Union, which included war on "Judeo-Bolshevism," led to harsher treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union than in most other occupied territories. This historical narrative presents a wealth of information from German, Russian, and Jewish archival sources that will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, and the general public for years to come.

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Contents List of Tables Preface Part 1. The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union before World War II 1. Jews in Czarist Russia 2. Jews in the USSR and in the Annexed Territories between the Two World Wars Part 2. The Impact of Political and Military Developments on the Jews of Eastern Europe, September 1, 1939, to June 22, 1941 3. German-Soviet Relations and Geopolitical Changes in Eastern Europe 4. The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories 5. Preparations in Germany for the Attack on the Soviet Union and the Annihilation of the Jews Part 3. The German Attack on the Soviet Union 6. Invasion under the Slogan "War on Judeo-Bolshevism" 7. Evacuation of the Soviet Population: Jews in Organized and Individual Evacuation 8. Anti-Jewish Pogroms during the Early Days of Occupation 9. The German Administration in the Occupied Territories and Its Anti-Jewish Policy Part 4. Mass Murder, First Stage: June 22, 1941, to Winter 194142 10. Einsatzgruppen Routes of Advance and Method of Extermination 11. Reichskommissariat Ostland: Ghettos and Extermination 12. Reichskommissariat Ukraine: Ghettos and Extermination 13. Military Administration Areas: Ghettos and Extermination 14. Extermination of the Jews of Crimea 15. The German Army from "Freedom of Action" for the Einsatzgruppen to Active Collaboration in the Murders 16. Persecution of the Jews in District Galicia 17. Romania and Transnistria: Expulsion and Mass Murder Part 5. Mass Murder, Second Stage: From Spring to Late 1942 18. The Killing Actions in Ostland and the Grodno-Volkovysk Region (Generalbezirk Bialystok) 19. Annihilation in Reichskommissariat Ukraine 20. Mass Murder in District Galicia: Operation Reinhard 21. Annihilation in Areas under Military Administration 22. Transnistria: Life in the Shadow of Death Part 6. Mass Murder, Third Stage: From Early 1943 until the End of German Occupation 23. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ostland 24. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ukraine 25. Survival in Transnistria 26. Action 1005 Part 7. The Murder of Specific Jewish Groups 27. The Murder of Mixed Marriages, Their Offspring, and Jewish Children in Boardinghouses 28. The Murder of Jewish Prisoners of War 29. Extermination in Ostland of Jews from the Third Reich Part 8. The Robbery of Jewish Property and Cultural Values 30. Confiscation and Plunder 31. The Pillage of Cultural Assets Part 9. Non-Jewish Society and Its Reaction to the Genocide of the Jews 32. The Local Population 33. The Righteous among the Nations 34. Attitudes of the Churches and Clergy toward the German Administration and Its Anti-Jewish Policy Part 10. The Jews in Their Struggle for Life and in Armed Resistance 35. The Individual, the Public, and Jewish Councils in a Battle for Survival 36. The Jewish Armed Underground in the Ghettos 37. The Jews in Forests and the Partisan Movement 38. Blood Account: Casualties and Survivors Conclusion Epilogue: The Holocaust and Soviet Governing Authorities Notes Bibliography Index