This book is the most complete account to date of the Soviet Jews during World War II and the Holocaust (1941-1945). Reports, records, documents, and research previously unavailable in English enable Yitzhak Arad to trace the Holocaust in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union through three separate periods in which German political and military goals in the occupied territories dictated the treatment of the Jews. Arad’s examination of the differences between the Holocaust in the Soviet Union compared to other European nations reveals how Nazi ideological attacks on the Soviet Union led to harsher treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union than in most other occupied territories. This historical narrative presets a wealth of information from German, Russian, and Jewish archival sources that will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, and the general public.
