The Nazi regime and local collaborators killed 800,000 Belorussian
Jews, many of them parents or relatives of young Jews who survived
the war. Thousands of young girls and boys were thus orphaned and
struggled for survival on their own. This book is the first
systematic account of young Soviet Jews' lives under conditions of
Nazi occupation and genocide. These orphans' experiences and
memories are rooted in the 1930s, when Soviet policies promoted and
sometimes actually created interethnic solidarity and social
equality. This experience of interethnic solidarity provided a
powerful framework for the ways in which young Jews survived and,
several decades after the war, represented their experience of
violence and displacement. Through oral histories with several
survivors, video testimonies, and memoirs, Anika Walke reveals the
crucial roles of age and gender in the ways young Jews survived and
remembered the Nazi genocide, and shows how shared experiences of
trauma facilitated community building within and beyond national
groups. Pioneers and Partisans uncovers the repeated
transformations of identity that Soviet Jewish children and
adolescents experienced, from Soviet citizens in the prewar years,
to a target of genocidal violence during the war, to a barely
accepted national minority in the postwar Soviet Union.
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