Anika Walke

Pioneers and Partisans: An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book weaves together oral histories, video testimonies, and memoirs produced in the former Soviet Union to show how the first generation of Soviet Jews, born after the foundation of the USSR, experienced the Nazi genocide and how they remember it after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 159mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199335534
• ISBN-10: 0199335532
• Artikelnr.: 47865096

Autorenporträt

Anika Walke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Note on transliteration
* Maps
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: On Methodology: Oral History and the Nazi Genocide
* Chapter 2: Between Tradition and Transformation: Soviet Jews in the
1930s
* Chapter 3: The End of Childhood: Young Soviet Jews in the Minsk
Ghetto
* Chapter 4: Suffering and Survival: The Destruction of Jewish
Communities in Eastern Belorussia
* Chapter 5: Fighting for Life and Victory: Refugees from the Ghettos
and the Soviet Partisan Movement
* Chapter 6: Of Refuge and Resistance: Labor for Survival in the "Zorin
Family Unit"
* Conclusion: Soviet Internationalism, Judaism, and the Nazi Genocide
in Oral Histories
* Sources