Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
יד ושם; קובץ מחקרים
Angaben zur Quelle:
לט,2 (תשעב) 107-146
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Mass media and the Holocaust
;
Genocide History 20th century
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Mass media
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews Periodicals
;
Jews Historiography
Abstract:
Examines coverage of the Holocaust in the Soviet wartime press, noting that initially reports on the murders of Jews were dealt with as part of the horrors of any war. The fact that the Jews were being targeted specifically was not at first mentioned, even after the German invasion in June 1941, partly because there had been a rise in antisemitism with the outbreak of war and Soviet authorities did not want their citizens to feel that they were fighting a war to save the Jews. However, by November 1941 Nazi massacres of Jews had become common knowledge, and thereafter there were many press reports on the liquidation of ghettos and the murder of Jews in massacres or in extermination camps. After the liberation of various areas of the Soviet Union, beginning in mid-1943, there was an increase in reports on massacres of Jews that had taken place, as well as many reports on trials of Nazi war criminals. As the Soviet Army advanced and liberated concentration and extermination camps, many reports emphasized the fact that Jews had been specifically targeted. Discusses methods of documentation of the Holocaust used by the Soviet army and by government agencies, and notes that some wartime Soviet newsreels and films also related to the Holocaust.
Note:
עברית ואנגלית.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
