The Kishinev ghetto, 1941-1942 : a documentary history of the Holocaust in Romania's contested borderlands /
The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 sheds new light on the little-known historical events surrounding the creation, administration and liquidation of the Kishinev (Chisinau) ghetto during the first months following the Axis attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in late June 1941. Mass killing...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 sheds new light on the little-known historical events surrounding the creation, administration and liquidation of the Kishinev (Chisinau) ghetto during the first months following the Axis attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in late June 1941. Mass killings during the combined Romanian-German drive toward Kishinev in Bessarabia, after a year of Soviet rule in this Romanian border province, were followed by the shooting of thousands of Jews on the streets of the city during the first days of reestablished Romanian administration. Survivors were driven into a ghetto, persecuted and liquidated by year's end. The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 is the first major study of these events. Often overshadowed by events in Germany and Poland, the history of the Holocaust in Romania, including what took place in Bessarabia (corresponding in large part with the territory of the modern Republic of Moldova), was obscured during decades of communist rule, denial and policies that blocked access to wartime documentation. This book is the result of a lengthy research project that began with Paul A. Shapiro's travels to Romania for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to negotiate access to these documents. |
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| Item Description: | "Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum." |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817318642 081731864X 9780817388126 0817388125 |