The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941−1942: A Documentary History of the Holocaust in Romania's Contested Borderlands
This volume treats the history of the Jewish ghetto in Kishinev (Chişinău, capital of today's Republic of Moldova) from July 1941 to April 1942. Established by the Romanian authorities on German advice and following the example of German-created ghettos elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe,...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 358-360 |
| Review of: | The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 (Tuscaloosa, Ala. : The Univ. of Alabama Press, 2015) (Solonari, Vladimir)
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| Summary: | This volume treats the history of the Jewish ghetto in Kishinev (Chişinău, capital of today's Republic of Moldova) from July 1941 to April 1942. Established by the Romanian authorities on German advice and following the example of German-created ghettos elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe, the Kishinev ghetto housed at one time more than ten thousand Jews—more women, children, and elderly people than able-bodied men. Shapiro makes the story part of the Holocaust, since the ghetto was conceived as preliminary to the inmates’ deportation “to the East,” and indeed was emptied in successive deportations between October 1941 and June 1942. Even earlier, the Romanians massacred as many as one thousand inmates during two mass shootings justified as “reprisals” for inmates’ transgressions. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw040 |