"With its ... over thousand] detailed and expansive footnotes
drawing on twenty-four different archive collections in eight
countries and three continents and an enormous secondary
literature, this is one of the best researched regional studies of
the Holocaust ever to appear. It is helped by the fact that the
authors are also always so cognizant of what was happening
elsewhere in Europe at the same time and thus frequently draw out
the relationship between seemingly haphazard local decisions and
trends across Europe...Indeed, the way in which the book 'makes
sense' of complex institutional behavior is at times
breathtaking...The precision in the detail and the scope of the
contextualization make this one of the more important works to
appear on the Holocaust in recent years." . English Historical
Review
"This very readable and well documented study fills an important
gap in the Holocaust literature: it offers insight into the
microcosm reflecting the entire terrifying and murderous scenario
of the SS State." . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
" This] excellent study of the Riga ghetto, informed by Eastern
European sources and available now in English translation, provides
a precise and ghastly description of what the liquidation] meant
for the local Jews. With laudable thoroughness, they describe the
organized shooting of Jews, the first form of industrial-scale mass
murder." . The New York Review of Books
Ghetto, forced labor camp, concentration camp: All of the
elements of the National Socialists' policies of annihilation were
to be found in Riga. This first analysis of the Riga ghetto and the
nearby camps of Salaspils and Jungfernhof addresses all aspects of
German occupation policy during the Second World War. Drawing upon
a broad array of sources that includes previously inaccessible
Soviet archives, postwar criminal investigations, and trial records
of alleged perpetrators, and the records of the Society of
Survivors of the Riga Ghetto, the authors have produced an in-depth
study of the Riga ghetto that never loses sight of the Latvian
capital's place within the overall design of Nazi policy and the
all-of-Europe dimension of the Holocaust.
Andrej Angrick, a native of Berlin, is a historian, consultant,
and researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the
Promotion of Science and Culture. He has published numerous
articles about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and co-edited "Der
Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42" (1999) and "Die Gestapo
nach 1945: Karrieren, Konflikte, Konstruktionen" (with
Klaus-Michael Mallmann, 2009), as well as "Besatzungspolitik und
Massenmord: Die Einsatzgruppe D in der sudlichen Sowjetunion
1941-1943" (2003).
Peter Klein, a Berlin-based historian, consultant, and
researcher affiliated with the Hamburg Foundation for the Promotion
of Science and Culture, has published widely on the Holocaust and
German occupation in various parts of central and eastern Europe
during the Second World War. Klein was the editor of "Die
Einsatzgruppen in der besetzten Sowjetunion 1941/1942" (1997) and a
co-editor of "Der Dienstkalender Heinrich Himmlers 1941/42" (1999).
He is the author of "Gettoverwaltung Litzmannstadt" (2009).
Ray Brandon is a freelance translator, historian, and
researcher based in Berlin. A former editor at the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, English Edition, he is co-editor, with Wendy
Lower, of "The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony,
Memorialization."
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