The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization

Ray Brandon, Wendy Lower

Indiana University Press, May 28, 2008 - History - 392 pages

On the eve of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941, Ukraine was home to the largest Jewish community in Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, some 1.4 million Jews were killed there, and one of the most important centers of Jewish life was destroyed. Yet, little is known about this chapter of Holocaust history. Drawing on archival sources from the former Soviet Union and bringing together researchers from Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States, The Shoah in Ukraine sheds light on the critical themes of perpetration, collaboration, Jewish-Ukrainian relations, testimony, rescue, and Holocaust remembrance in Ukraine.

Contributors are Andrej Angrick, Omer Bartov, Karel C. Berkhoff, Ray Brandon, Martin Dean, Dennis Deletant, Frank Golczewski, Alexander Kruglov, Wendy Lower, Dieter Pohl, and Timothy Snyder.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• I The Murder of Ukraines Jews under German Military Administration and in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine: 23
• II The Life and Death of Western Volhynian Jewry 19211945: 77
• Reflections on JewishUkrainian and GermanUkrainian Relations in Galicia: 114
• IV Transnistria and the Romanian Solution to the Jewish Problem: 156
• Jews and Thoroughfare IV in Central Ukraine: 190
• Nazi Civilian Rulers and the Holocaust in Zhytomyr: 224
• VII Soviet Ethnic Germans and the Holocaust in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine 19411944: 248
• VIII Jewish Losses in Ukraine 19411944: 272
• German Jewish Soviet Russian and Ukrainian Records: 291
• Eastern Galicias Past and Present: 318
• Comparative Table of Ranks: 355
• Map Sources: 357
• Selected Supplemental Bibliography: 359
• Contributors: 363
• Index: 367
• back cover: 381

About the author

Ray Brandon is a freelance editor, translator, and researcher based in Berlin. A former editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, English Edition, he has also lived and worked in Ukraine and Poland.

Wendy Lower is a research fellow and lecturer at Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Author of Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine, she is a past research fellow and Director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization; The Shoah in Ukraine
• Editors: Ray Brandon, Wendy Lower
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2008
• ISBN: 0253001595, 9780253001597
• Length: 392 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / Holocaust; Social Science / Jewish Studies