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Pioneers and Partisans - An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia (Hardcover)
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Pioneers and Partisans - An Oral History of Nazi Genocide in Belorussia (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Oral History Series
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Thousands of young Jews were orphaned by the Nazi genocide in the
German-occupied Soviet Union and struggled for survival on their
own. This 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 in a
context of social change following the dissolution of the USSR in
1991. The 1930s, a period when the notion interethnic solidarity
and social equality were promoted and a partly lived reality, were
formative for a cohort of young Jews. Soviet policies of the time
established a powerful framework for the ways in which survivors of
the genocide understood, survived, and represent their experience
of violence and displacement. The book demonstrates that the young
Soviet Jews' struggle for survival, and its memory, was shaped by
interethnic relationships within the occupied society, German
annihilation policy, and Soviet efforts to construct a patriotic
unity of the Soviet population. Age and gender were crucial factors
for experiencing, surviving, and remembering the Nazi genocide in
Soviet territories, an element that Anika Walke emphasizes by
investigating the individual and collective efforts to save
peoples' lives, in hiding places and partisan formations, and how
these efforts were subsequently erased in the construction of the
Soviet war portrayal. Pioneers and Partisans demonstrates how the
Holocaust unfolded in the German-occupied Soviet territories and
how Soviet citizens responded to it. The book does this work
through oral histories of atrocities and survival during the German
occupation in Minsk and a number of small towns in Eastern
Belorussia such as Shchedrin, Slavnoe, Zhlobin, and Shklov.
Following particular individuals' stories, framed within the
broader historical and cultural context, this book tells of
repeated transformations of identity, from Soviet citizen in the
prewar years, to a target of genocidal violence during the war, to
barely accepted national minority in the postwar Soviet Union.
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