"The most comprehensive English collection of wartime and early postwar diaries, letters, testimonies, and other documents penned by Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust in the territories of Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia, and the Baltics. Anyone interested in studying and trying to make sense of the cruelty, collective violence, inhumane suffering, and trauma of genocide should read this unfiltered, detailed evidence of the Holocaust's impact on individuals and society."
Richard Overy]]>
The Unknown Black Book invites the reader to enter an almost unimaginable world where atrocity became a way of life and survival a miracle. . . . Killing on the Eastern front was raw and unmediated violence. 'The Unknown Black Book' captures that grim reality of rave murder and at the same time disarms denial.
Wendy Lower]]>
The most comprehensive English collection of wartime and early postwar diaries, letters, testimonies, and other documents penned by Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust in the territories of Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia, and the Baltics. Anyone interested in studying and trying to make sense of the cruelty, collective violence, inhumane suffering, and trauma of genocide should read this unfiltered, detailed evidence of the Holocaust's impact on individuals and society.
Richard Overy
"The Unknown Black Book invites the reader to enter an almost unimaginable world where atrocity became a way of life and survival a miracle . . . Killing on the Eastern front was raw and unmediated violence. The Unknown Black Book captures that grim reality of rave murder and at the same time disarms denial."--(Richard Overy, author of The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia)
editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia - Walter Laqueur
A unique source for a fuller understanding of the tragic events during these dark years.
Walter Laqueur
"A unique source for a fuller understanding of the tragic events during these dark years."--(Walter Laqueur, editor of The Holocaust Encyclopedia)
Timothy Snyder
"The particular historical merit of these collections is that they assemble records collected in the months following the events they describe. The two books together provide one of the most important sources on the Holocaust, and the editors . . . have performed an invaluable service by preparing an English-language edition of "The Unknown Black Book."--(Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University)
Wendy Lower
"The most comprehensive English collection of wartime and early postwar diaries, letters, testimonies, and other documents penned by Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust in the territories of Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia, and the Baltics. Anyone interested in studying and trying to make sense of the cruelty, collective violence, inhumane suffering, and trauma of genocide should read this unfiltered, detailed evidence of the Holocaust's impact on individuals and society."--(Wendy Lower, author of Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine)
author of Nazi Empire Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine - Wendy Lower
The most comprehensive English collection of wartime and early postwar diaries, letters, testimonies, and other documents penned by Jewish victims and survivors of the Holocaust in the territories of Ukraine, Belorussia, Russia, and the Baltics. Anyone interested in studying and trying to make sense of the cruelty, collective violence, inhumane suffering, and trauma of genocide should read this unfiltered, detailed evidence of the Holocaust's impact on individuals and society.
author of The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia - Richard Overy
The Unknown Black Book invites the reader to enter an almost unimaginable world where atrocity became a way of life and survival a miracle. . . . Killing on the Eastern front was raw and unmediated violence. 'The Unknown Black Book' captures that grim reality of rave murder and at the same time disarms denial.
Omer Bartov
"an extraordinary collection of eye-witness reports, diary entries and other accounts of the mass murder of Jews... 'The Unknown Black Book' reveals the sheer barbarity on the individual level -- the tortures and rapes, the looting and destruction, and, not least, the glee and humor, as well as the hatred and contempt, expressed by the killers. It makes for very disturbing reading. But these accounts from those who saw what happened convey what we cannot learn from official documents about the nature of this vast criminal enterprise, in which hundreds of thousands were transformed into monsters -- mostly returning home after the war as "ordinary" men -- and millions of others became helpless, dehumanized, mutilated and finally forgotten victims."--(Reviewed by Prof. Omer Bartov, Brown University)