Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union Mark Edele, Sheila Fitzpatrick, and Atina Grossmann
The largest contingent of Eastern European Jews alive at the end of the Second World War survived because they had been evacuated or deported into the hinterland of the Soviet Union. They faced harsh conditions, and an estimated ten percent died from hunger, disease, and mistreatment, but wartime re...
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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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2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 2, Pages: 265-266 |
| Review of: | Shelter from the Holocaust (Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2017) (Eaton, Nicole)
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Book review
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| Summary: | The largest contingent of Eastern European Jews alive at the end of the Second World War survived because they had been evacuated or deported into the hinterland of the Soviet Union. They faced harsh conditions, and an estimated ten percent died from hunger, disease, and mistreatment, but wartime refuge in the USSR ultimately offered them—the majority from Poland—their best chance at surviving the Holocaust. This tale rarely appears in Holocaust narratives or the historiographies of the USSR and Poland, however. The Polish Jews have not been considered “survivors” but instead “indirect” or “flight” survivors—or their stories have been folded into the collective history of the Holocaust without attention to their specific wartime experiences. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz028 |
