Pioneers and partisans : an oral history of Nazi genocide in Belorussia /

"Thousands of young Jews were orphaned by the Nazi genocide in the German-occupied Soviet Union and struggled for survival on their own. This book weaves together oral histories, video testimonies, and memoirs produced in the former Soviet Union to show how the first generation of Soviet Jews,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Walke, Anika (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Series:	Oxford oral history series.
Subjects:	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 1939-1945 Jews > Belarus > Biography. Jews > Belarus > Biography > History and criticism. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Belarus > Biography > History and criticism. Jews, Soviet > Biography. Oral history > Belarus. HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union. HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. Biography. Ethnic relations. Jews. Jews, Soviet. Oral history. Belarus > Ethnic relations. Belarus. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

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On Methodology : Oral History and the Nazi Genocide
Between Tradition and Transformation : Soviet Jews in the 1930s
The End of Childhood : Young Soviet Jews in the Minsk Ghetto
Suffering and Survival : The Destruction of Jewish Communities in Eastern Belorussia
Fighting for Life and Victory : Refugees from the Ghettos and the Soviet Partisan Movement
Of Refuge and Resistance : Labor for Survival in the "Zorin Family Unit"
Conclusion: Soviet Internationalism, Judaism, and the Nazi Genocide in Oral Histories.