Shoah in Ukraine

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.