Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
מדעי היהדות
Angaben zur Quelle:
32 (תשנב) 18-24
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Abstract:
Although ca. one-quarter of the Holocaust victims were murdered in the Soviet Union, the events have been dealt with scantily by historians due to lack of primary source material. Between 1948-89 the Soviet government did not allow Jews to engage in Holocaust research. In 1989 the archives were opened, and scholars discovered the vast amount of material (millions of documents) housed throughout the USSR. The most important archive, that of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission for the Investigation of the German-Fascist Crimes on the Temporarily Occupied Soviet Territories, was established in 1943. The Committee collected documents and testimonies in each town and village as it was liberated. Gives examples from the 40,000 files of this archive, now housed in the Central Archives in Moscow, and from the archive of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, and mentions other types of archives found in the USSR: those of the Red Army, of the Nazi authorities in the occupied USSR, and Nazi documents confiscated in East Germany and Austria during the Russian occupation, an archive whose existence was unknown before 1989.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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