The Holocaust: 70 Years Later. Proceedings from the International Forum and the Ninth International Conference “Holocaust Lessons and Contemporary Russia”, eds. Ilya Altman, Igor Kotler and Jürgen Tsaruski (Moscow: The Russian Holocaust Center and Foundation, 2015), 71-79, 2015
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Finally, by focusing not only on the events in Russia, but also, quite frequently, on those within the borders of the former Soviet Union, contemporary Russian Holocaust scholarship seems to reflect, to a certain extent, the larger dilemmas of the country’s split identity.
Soviet media can be credited in no small measure with disseminating awareness of true German intentions towards Jews that ultimately reverberated with the Ginsburgs and moved some of them to evacuate while others considered leaving. However, the critical information on the proximity of the German forces was frequently unavailable or distorted.
The impact of the messages emanating from Soviet media depended on whether they accorded with the mindset of their consumers such the Ginsburgs and whether these consumers were able and willing to verify media content from other sources, mainly from rumors coming from refugees. In cognizance of the family’s fear of Soviet censors and their desire not to upset each other overall, the penetration of Soviet media notions is noticeable in 1941.
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Finally, by focusing not only on the events in Russia, but also, quite frequently, on those within the borders of the former Soviet Union, contemporary Russian Holocaust scholarship seems to reflect, to a certain extent, the larger dilemmas of the country’s split identity.
Soviet media can be credited in no small measure with disseminating awareness of true German intentions towards Jews that ultimately reverberated with the Ginsburgs and moved some of them to evacuate while others considered leaving. However, the critical information on the proximity of the German forces was frequently unavailable or distorted.
The impact of the messages emanating from Soviet media depended on whether they accorded with the mindset of their consumers such the Ginsburgs and whether these consumers were able and willing to verify media content from other sources, mainly from rumors coming from refugees. In cognizance of the family’s fear of Soviet censors and their desire not to upset each other overall, the penetration of Soviet media notions is noticeable in 1941.
While scholars have focused on local collaboration during the German occupation and on the subsequent Soviet deportations of entire North Caucasian ethnic groups, the region has largely escaped the attention of Holocaust researchers. This volume, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to the Holocaust in the North Caucasus, addresses that gap. Contributors present richly documented essays on such topics as German killing operations, decision-making by Jewish refugees, local collaboration, rescue, and memory, taking care to integrate their findings into the broader contexts of Holocaust, North Caucasian, Russian, and Soviet history.
CRISPIN BROOKS is the curator at the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive. KIRIL FEFERMAN is a senior lecturer and the head of the Holocaust History Center at Ariel University.
This work offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It also examines Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus. Drawing on a collection of family letters, the author provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and are eventually swept away by the Soviet-German War, the German invasion of Soviet Russia, and the Holocaust. The book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Holocaust and Second World War in the Soviet Union, presenting one Soviet region as an illustration of wartime social and media politics.
В книге рассматриваются вопросы эвакуации советских евреев на уровне макро, а также через призму «его-документов», семейной корреспонденции одной отдельно взятой советской еврейской семьи, проживавшей в период в ойны в г. Ростов-на-Дону. В книге прослеживается история семьи в 1941-42 гг., ее размышления на тему «бежать или не бежать» на фоне войны и Холокоста. Данная работа вносит свой вклад в историю Холокоста, Второй Мировой Войны и СССР, а также микро-историю северокавказского региона с упором на социальную и информационную политику советских властей.
Objective factors, such as the availability of German manpower and food, weather and geographic conditions, in addition to subjective factors, such as the attitudes of Wehrmacht commanders, left their imprint on the implementation of the “Final Solution” policy in these areas. By the time the Germans occupied the Crimea in November 1941, it was absolutely clear to them that the Jews had to be eliminated. All the more so when they came to dominate the North Caucasus in the summer of 1942. Yet, the Nazi decision-makers were vexed by the need to clarify who was a Jew. The case of the Ashkenazi Jews was clear-cut, and their fate was similar to that of their brethren elsewhere in Europe. However, the Germans faced a formidable difficulty in categorizing the non-Ashkenazi Karaites and Krymchaks in the Crimea, and Mountain Jews in the North Caucasus, who, according to the Nazi world-view, shared some but not all racial and religious characteristics of Jews. Subsequently, German investigation involved a thorough pseudo-scientific analysis of racial and religious features by the Nazi academy, as well as SS “researchers.”
Set against the background of the ongoing murder of Ashkenazi Jews in these regions and local politics with geo-political implications, this research title also focuses on the support – or lack thereof – lent to Karaites, Krymchaks and Mountain Jews by local Muslims. These interwoven histories cover a hitherto unexplored terrain in Holocaust history, and offer a fascinating window into the history of the Crimea and North Caucasus and the fate of their Jewish inhabitants during WWII.
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