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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Translator’s Preface, David Patterson
Foreword, Irving Louis Horowitz
Introduction, Helen Segall
Introduction to the Russian Edition, Irina Ehrenburg
From the Editors of The Black Book
Preface, Vasily Grossman
Part 1: The Ukraine
Kiev: Babi Yar, an article based on documentary materials and depositions from the people of Kiev, prepared for publication by Lev Ozerov
The Murder of the Jews of Berdichev, by Vasily Grossman
Talnoe, by Vladimir Lidin
Resistance in Yarmolitsy (Kamenets, Podolsk District), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
How the Woman Dr. Langman Perished (Sorochitsy), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
In the Town of Chmelnik (Vinnitsa District), reported by A. L Bekker; prepared for publication by R. Kovnator
In the Village of Yaryshev, reported by O. Yakhot and M. Brekhman; prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
In the Settlement of Tsybulevo, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
In the Village of Yaltushkov, from a letter written by Soviet War Hero Second-Lieutenant Kravtsov; prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
In My Hometown (Brailov), by Efim Gekhman 29
What I Survived in Kharkov, reported by Maria Markovna Sokol; prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Pyotr Chepurenko, Witness to the Piryatin Massacre, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Death of the Jewish Collective Farm Workers in Zelenopol, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Letters from Dnepropetrovsk, Letters from the Indikt couple, prepared for publication by G. Munblit
The Day of 13 October 1941, prepared for publication by G. Munblit
The Story of A. M. Burtseva 46
The Story of I. A. Revenskaya 47
The Story of B. I. Tartakovskaya 48
A Letter from Military Officer Granovsky (Ekaterinopol), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Diary of Sarra Gleikh (Mariupol), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Odessa, by Vera Inber
Chernovitsy under the German-Romanian Occupation, reported by E. Grosberg; prepared for publication by L. Goldberg
The Story of Rakhil Fradis-Milner (Chernovitsy), prepared for publication by R. Kovnator and I. Ehrenburg
The Extermination of the Jews of Lvov, reported by I. Herts and Naftali Nakht; prepared for publication by R. Fraerman and R. Kovnator
Thirteen Days in Hiding: The Story of Lily Herts (Lvov), prepared for publication by R. Fraerman and R. Kovnator
My Comrade the Partisan Yakov Barer (A Letter from Boris Khandros), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
In the Penyatsky Forests: A Letter from an Intelligence Officer (Lvov District), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Germans in Radzivillov (Krasnoarmeisk), reported by Lyusya Gekhman; prepared for publication by Maria Shkapskaya
A Letter from Syunya Deresh (Izyaslav), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Letters from Orphans, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
German-Romanian Brutality in Kishinev (Moldavia), by L. Bazarov
Part 2: Belorussia
The Minsk Ghetto, materials provided by A. Machiz, Grechanik, L. Gleizer, and P. Shapiro; prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman
Leaders of the Underground Fighters in the Minsk Ghetto, by G Smolyar
The Young Women from Minsk, reported by Semyon Bank; prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman
The Story of an Old Man, prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman
In the Village of Gory, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Murder of the Jews of Glubokoe and Other Villages, from materials provided by the brothers M. and G Rayak; prepared for publication by R. Kovnator
The Story of Engineer Pikman from Mozyr, Basya Pikman; prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Story of Dr. Olga Goldfain, prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman
Brest, Depositions and Documentary Testimony of the Residents of Brest; prepared for publication by Margarita Aliger
The Tragedy of My Life, a letter from Red Army soldier Kiselev; prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
A Letter from Red Army Soldier Gofman (Krasnopole, Mogilev District), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
In the Pit, prepared for publication by Valeriya Gerasimova
The Story of a Little Girl from Bialystok, prepared for publication by Valeriya Gerasimova
Liozno, reported by B. Chernyakova; prepared for publication by Vsevolod Ivanov
Letters from Belorussian Children (From the Starye Zhuravli Settlement, Gomel District), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
A Letter Written by Zlata Vishnyatskaya Prior to Her Death
The Temchin Family from Slutsk (Passages from Letters Received by the Pilot Efim Temchin), prepared for publication by O. Savich
From Materials Compiled by the Special State Commission on the Verification and Investigation of Atrocities Committed by the German-Fascist Invaders, Depositions of Soviet Citizens
In Bialystok, prepared for publication by R. Kovnator
The "Brenners" of Bialystok: The Story of Two Workers in the City of Bialystok, Shimon Amiel and Zalman Edelman, reported by Medical Service Major Nokhum Polinovsky; prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman
Part 3: The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republie
The Smolensk Area, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Shamovo
Krasny
The Fate of Isaak Rozenberg, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Rostov on the Don, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Doctor Kremenchuzhsky, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
"Where Are They Taking Us?" prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
In Stavropol, reported by A. Nankin; prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Germans in Kislovodsk, prepared for publication by Viktor Shklovsky
Essentuki, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Story of Iosif Vaingertner, a Fisherman from Kerch, prepared for publication by L. Kvitko
Yalta, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Fishgoit’s Report, prepared for publication by A. Derman
Murder in Dzhankoy, prepared for publication by L. Kvitko
How Dr. Fidelev Was Murdered, reported by A. Morozov; prepared for publication by A. Derman
The Painter Zhivotvorsky, reported by L. Feigin, prepared for publication by A. Derman
Part 4: Lithuania
The Vilna Ghetto by A. Sutskever; translated from the Yiddish by M. Shambadal and B. Chernyak
The First Days
The “Hunters”
In the Lukishki Prison
Schweinberger
Ponary
Three Stories of People Saved from Death
1. The Story of Motel Gdud
2. The Story of Khiena Katz
3. The Story of Solomon Garbel
Murer
Schweinberger’s Successor Martin Weiss
The Fate of the Elderly
Degner
Grounds for the Arrest of Jews
Weiss’s Inoculations against Typhus
The Story of Fruma-Riva Burshtein of Novogrudok
Golda Krizhevskaya
The Extermination of the Children in the H KP Camp
Shmulik Kotlyar
Leibi Finkelshtein
The Fate of the Children Who Were Taken Away
Clothing
Kittel
In Alfred Rosenberg’s Office
Martyrs of the Ghetto
Tiktin
Levitskaya
A Mathematician
The United Partisan Organization of the Vilna Ghetto (UPO)
The First Proclamation
Weapons
The Struggle Has Begun
Sabotage
Ties with Other Cities
The Underground Printing Press
Close Friendships
Aid to Prisoners of War and the Families of Soviet Soldiers
How We Celebrated May Day 1943
Isaak Vitenberg
“Liza Calls”
Fallen Heroes
The Struggle Continues in the Forest
The Last Act of the Tragedy
Digging Out and Escape
The Diary of E. Yerushalmi of Siauliai (Shavli), prepared for publication by O. Savich
From the Editors
A Brief Account of Events that Took Place from 28 June to 23 November 1941
The Ghetto
From the Diary
The Death Forts of Kovno (Kaunas), by Meir Elin
The Seventh Fort
The Fourth Fort
The Sixth Fort
The Ninth Fort
1. The Mass Murder of Kovno Residents in the Fall of 1941
2. The Mass Murder of People Transported from Germany and Other West European Countries
3. The Destruction of Mass Graves
4. The Escape of Prisoners from the Ninth Fort
5. The Ninth Fort After the Prisoners’ Escape
6. The Last Traces of the Crimes
The Kovno Ghetto Fighters, by 1. Iosade
Doctor Elena Buividaite-Kutorgene, reported by G. Osherovich; prepared for publication by R. Kovnator
From the Diary of Doctor Elena Buividaite-Kutorgene (June - December 1941)
The Fate of the Jews of Telshiai: The Story of Galina Masyulis and Susanna Kogan, prepared for publication by O. Savich
Part 5: Latvia
1. The Germans Enter the City
2. Night over Riga
3. The First Days of the Occupation
4. The Ghetto
5. Aktion
6. "Deportation" from the Ghetto
7. The Jews from Germany
8. The Salaspils Concentration Camp
From the Notebook of the Sculptor Elik Rivosh (Riga), prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman and R. Kovnator
The Story of Sema Shpungin (Dvinsk), prepared for publication by O.Savich
Part 6: The Soviet People are United
A Letter from Officers Levchenko, Borisov, and Chesnokov (Lopavshi, Rovno District), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Peasant Woman Zinaida Vashchishina (Dombrovitsy, Rovno District), prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
Collective Farmer Yuliya Kukhta Saved Jewish Children, reported by Lieutenant Mayakov; prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman
I Was Adopted by the Lukinsky Family: A Report by Polina Ausker-Lukinskaya; prepared for publication by V Ilenkov
The Teachers Golneva, Terekhova, and Timofeeva, reported by Khana Khaimovna Rhodos; prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Bookkeeper Zirchenko, prepared for publication by llya Ehrenburg
The Story of F. M. Gontova, prepared for publication by G. Munblit
One Survived: The Story of Evsey Efimovich Gopstein, prepared for publication by L. Seifullina
The Orthodox Priest Glagolev, reported by I. Minkina-Egorycheva, prepared for publication by R. Kovnator
The Roman Catholic Priest Bronyus Paukshtis, by Girsh Osherovich, translated from the Yiddish by M. A. Shambadal
Part 7: The Annihilation Camps
Ponary: The Story of Engineer Yu. Färber, prepared for publication by R. Kovnator
In the Khorol Concentration Camp, reported by A. Reznichenko, prepared for publication by Vasily Grossman
The Camp at Klooga (Estonia), prepared for publication by O. Savich
From the Editors
Zaintraub, a Student from the Vilnius University
Anolik
E. Yerushalmi
Vatsnik
Benyamin Anolik, Junior
Treblinka, by Vasily Grossman
The Children from the Black Road, by V Apresyan
The Uprising at Sobibor, by R Antokolsky and V. Kaverin
The Report of the Special State Commission for the Verification and Investigation of Atrocities Committed by the German Fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices in the Monstrous Crimes of the German Government in Auschwitz 500
Reichsführer SS Himmler, Organizer of the Auschwitz Annihilation Camp
German Fascist Professors and Physicians: Murderers of the Prisoners in Auschwitz
At Auschwitz the German Executioners Murdered Citizens of Every Country in Europe
Auschwitz: The Mass Production of Death
Murderers of Children
The Extermination of the Intelligentsia
The Hitlerite Plunderers
The Hitlerite Thugs Murdered More than Four Million People in Auschwitz
Calling the German-Fascists to a Serious Accounting
A Girl from Auschwitz (No. 74233), prepared for publication by Osip Cherny
Twenty-Six Months in Auschwitz: The Story of Mordecai Tsirulnitsky, Former Inmate No. 79414, prepared for publication by L. Goldberg
1. In the Village of Oštrino
2. In the Kelbasino Camp
3. The First Months in Auschwitz
4. At the Factory
The Story of Former Prisoner of War M. Scheinman
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by B. Mark
Part 8: Executioners
The Racial Politics of Hitlerism and Anti-Semitism, by Academician I. P. Trainin
Himmler’s Order (From Freies Deutschland, No. 23, 19 December 1943), by Major Berhhard Bechler
Text of a German Dispatch Found in the Region of Rossoshi among Staff Documents of the 15th German Police Regiment, Concluding Report
Executioners
From the Deposition of Captain Salog, Police Regiment Commander
Excerpts from the Diary of Prisoner of War Karl Johannes Drexel, Lance Corporal
From the Deposition of Private First Class Christian Färber
An Excerpt from the Protocol of the Cross-Examination of the Prisoner of War Lance Corporal Erich Heubaum
From the Deposition of the Prisoner of War Corporal Heinrich Michael Wenkriech
From the Deposition of Wolfgang Janiko
From the Protocol of the Cross-Examination of the Prisoner of War Private First Class Albert Ender
Protocol of the Interrogation of Wilhelm Sudbrak
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