This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed. Drawing on a collection of family letters, Kiril Feferman provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and are eventually swept away by the Soviet-German War, the German invasion of Soviet Russia, and the Holocaust. The book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Holocaust and Second World War in the Soviet Union, presenting one Soviet region as an illustration of wartime social and media politics.
Зміст
Table of Contents
Timeline
Introduction
Historical Background
Chapter 1.1. The Ginsburg Family in the North Caucasus
Chapter 1.2. Soviet Population Evacuation into the North Caucasus, 1941–42
Chapter 1.3. The Holocaust in the North Caucasus
The Ginsburg Family Correspondence
Chapter 2. 1941
Chapter 3. 1942–43
Conclusion
List of Letters in the Ginsburg collection
Bibliography
Про автора
Kiril Feferman teaches at Ariel University and is the head of Ariel’s Holocaust History Center. He has more than fifteen years of experience researching Holocaust history, contemporary Jewish history in the broader East European region, and the Second World War and has published extensively on these topics.