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Preface |
7 |
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Author's Foreword |
21 |
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Chapter 1 Features of the Holocaust in Belarus |
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1. A Demographic Profile of the Jews in Belorussia, 1939-1959 |
27 |
2. The quest for rescue in occupied territory |
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Life in the ghetto, trial by hunger |
46 |
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Demoralization of the prisoners |
48 |
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The quest for rescue |
50 |
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Organized escapes |
55 |
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Aid and rescue of Jews by German servicemen |
58 |
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The rescue of Jews by Christians |
62 |
3. The fate of children during the years of occupation |
67 |
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The beginning of the war |
68 |
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Children in the ghetto |
69 |
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The saviours of children |
73 |
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Antisemitism and children |
77 |
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Children of mixed marriages |
80 |
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The behavior of non-Jewish spouses |
82 |
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The difference in status between Jewish and non-Jewish children |
84 |
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The number of victims among children |
86 |
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The influence of the Holocaust on the fate of children |
88 |
4. Confiscation of Jewish Property |
94 |
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Chapter 2 Resistance to the Policy of Genocide |
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1. The battle in the ghetto of Minsk |
102 |
2. Family camps and partisan units |
119 |
3. Jews and Poles among the Belarusian partisans |
129 |
4. Anti-Semitism in the Partisan Movement of Belorussia, 1941-1944 |
147 |
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Chapter 3 The Ghettos of Belarus-examples of genocide |
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1. From materials of the Extraordinary Commission (Ch.G.K. USSR) |
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Baranovichi |
160 |
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Bol'shaya Berestovitsa |
161 |
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Borisov |
162 |
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Byten |
163 |
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Vasilishki |
164 |
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Vileika |
164 |
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Vitebsk |
167 |
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Vishnievo |
168 |
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Volkovysk |
168 |
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Volozhin |
169 |
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Vorob'evichi |
171 |
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Voronovo |
171 |
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Gorodishche |
172 |
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Gorodeya |
173 |
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Grodno |
174 |
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Derechin |
175 |
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Drogichin |
176 |
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Dyatlavo |
176 |
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Zembin |
177 |
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Ivye |
178 |
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Ilya |
179 |
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Kletsk |
181 |
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Kozlovshchina |
182 |
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Kokhanovo |
183 |
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Kurenets |
183 |
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Lida |
185 |
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Lyakhovichi |
186 |
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Molchad' |
187 |
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Myadel |
188 |
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Nesvizh |
189 |
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Orsha |
190 |
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Peski |
191 |
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Slavnoe |
191 |
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Surazh |
192 |
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Tolochin |
193 |
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Cherikov |
194 |
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Yanovichi |
194 |
2. Witnesses to the Holocaust |
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Berezino |
197 |
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Glusk |
198 |
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Gorki |
200 |
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Zheludok |
203 |
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Klimovichi |
204 |
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Lyady |
207 |
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Minsk |
209 |
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Mozhyr |
212 |
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Novogrudok |
215 |
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Village of Ordat' |
216 |
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Plissa |
218 |
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Pogost-Zagorodski |
220 |
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Smilovichi |
223 |
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Smorgon' |
225 |
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Stolin |
227 |
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Turov |
228 |
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Uzda |
230 |
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Khotenchitsy |
232 |
3. Ilya Ehrenburg on the crimes of Nazism in Belarus |
234 |
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Chapter 4 Encroachments on Memory |
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1. Cherven' |
247 |
2. Rechitsa |
259 |
3. Eternal monuments to the victims of genocide |
278 |
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Chapter 5 Historiography of the Holocaust |
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1. Jews in Borisov |
288 |
2. Novogrudok: A Missing Chapter in the History of the Holocaust in Belarus
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295 |
3. New approaches to the study of the Holocaust |
303 |
Dictionary of basic terms and names used |
314 |
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Bibliography |
329 |
The Series Pamyat' [Memory] |
339 |
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Books and Articles in Hebrew |
340-341 |
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Appendix |
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Demographic and social composition of the Jewish population in the Soviet Union up to 1941. |
342 |
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From an order of Field Marshal General Walter von Reichenau, Commander of the 6th Army; On the behavior of troops in the East. |
343 |
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Letter of P.K Ponomarenko, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, to Comrade Stalin |
344 |
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Address by the German Command |
346 |
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From an order of 4 November 1941 by the Field Command of Minsk on the re-naming of city streets |
348 |
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A Reminder to the Belorussian Policeman |
349 |
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Identifying signs for Jews |
350 |
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Report on the interrogation of prisoner-of-war Phillip Keffer, 1st company, 118th rifle regiment, 36th infantry division |
352 |
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From a list of names of Ch.G.K. of the USSR regarding the town of Rechitsa |
353 |
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Victims among the civilian population and prisoners of war in Belarus between 1941 and 1944. |
355 |
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Participation of Jews in the leadership of the Resistance in occupied territory of Belarus from 1941-1944. |
356 |
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Memorial complexes, monuments, and memorial markers to the victims of the Holocaust in Belarus established between 1945 and 1999 |
366 |
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From the archives of the newspaper Ainikait |
377 |
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Table of the dynamics of the change in the Jewish population of Belarus from the 18th to the 20th century |
382 |
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Nine Aspen Stakes poem by Yanka Kupala |
384 |
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To the USSR Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee by M.G. Kel'man |
386 |
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About the book by L. Smilovitsky The Holocaust of the Jews of Belarus |
387 |
Addresses of Jewish societies in Belarus |
389 |
Addresses of Jewish societies in Israel |
393 |
Index of names |
394 |
Geographic index |
409 |
Photographic documents |
417 |
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