Language:
English
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Вестник Еврейского университета
Angaben zur Quelle:
9 (1995) 36-55
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
More than half of the Jews who lived, before the war, in the areas of the USSR which were later occupied by the Nazis failed to leave the area; most of them were murdered by the Nazis. The Soviet authorities managed to organize orderly evacuations between 27 June-5 July 1941, but large areas had already been taken by the Germans. Saving people, except those who were needed for the defense industry, was not a priority for the Soviets. Contends that it was not so much antisemitism of the authorities, rather their indifference to human life, that played a crucial role in the failure to evacuate Jews. Among the Jews who stayed in the occupied areas, there were those who could not and those who did not want to evacuate; dwells on objective and subjective factors which prevented flight. The most striking is the failure of evacuation from Rostov and North Caucasus in 1942, when the facts of the Holocaust were well-known. The authorities, both central (who never stressed that the majority of the Nazis' victims were Jews) and local, did not inform the population of the danger hanging over the Jews.
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