Unknown Black Book

<p><i>The Unknown Black Book </i>provides a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II--Ukraine Belorussia Lithuania Latvia Estonia and Crimea. These documents are first-hand accounts by survivors of work camps ghettos forced marches beatings starvation and disease. Collected under the direction of two renowned Soviet Jewish journalists Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman they tell of Jews who lived in pits walled-off corners of apartments attics and basement dugouts unable to emerge due to fear that their neighbors would betray them as often happened.</p>