The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewryis a collection of
eyewitness testimonies, letters, diaries, affidavits, and other
documents on the activities of the Nazis against Jews in the camps,
ghettoes, and towns of Eastern Europe. Arguably, the only apt
comparism is to The Gulag Archipelago of Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
This definitive edition of The Black Book, including for the first
time materials omitted from previous editions, is a major addition
to the literature on the Holocaust. It will be of particular
interest to students, teachers, and scholars of the Holocaust and
those interested in the history of Europe.
By the end of 1942, 1.4 million Jews had been killed by the
Einsatzgruppen that followed the German army eastward; by the end
of the war, nearly two million had been murdered in Russia and
Eastern Europe. Of the six million Jews who perished in the
Holocaust, about one-third fell in the territories of the USSR. The
single most important text documenting that slaughter is The Black
Book, compiled by two renowned Russian authors Ilya Ehrenburg and
Vasily Grossman. Until now, The Black Book was only available in
English in truncated editions. Because of its profound
significance, this new and definitive English translation of The
Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry is a major literary and
intellectual event.
From the time of the outbreak of the war, Ehrenburg and Grossman
collected the eyewitness testimonies that went into The Black Book.
As early as 1943 they were planning its publication; the first
edition appeared in 1944. During the years immediately after the
war, Grossman assisted Ehrenburg in compiling additional materials
for a second edition, which appeared in 1946 (in English as well as
Russian).
Since the fall of the Soviet regime, Irina Ehrenburg, the
daughter of Ilya Ehrenburg, has recovered the lost portions of the
manuscript sent to Yad Vashem. The texts recovered by Ms. Ehrenburg
include numerous documents that had been censored from the original
manuscript, as well as items that had been hidden by the Grossman
family. In addition, she verified and, where appropriate, corrected
the accuracy of documents that had already appeared in earlier
editions of The Black Book.
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