The Kishinev ghetto, 1941-1942 : a documentary history of the Holocaust in Romania's contested borderlands

Author/Creator:

Shapiro, Paul A., author

Publication/Creation:

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]

Format:

Book

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Full Title:

The Kishinev ghetto, 1941-1942 : a documentary history of the Holocaust in Romania's contested borderlands / Paul A. Shapiro ; with chronology by Radu Ioanid and Brewster Chamberlin ; document translations by Angela Jianu

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Additional Author/Creators:

Ioanid, Radu, contributor
Chamberlin, Brewster S., contributor
Jianu, Angela, translator

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Jews--Persecutions--Moldova--Chișinău--History--20th century
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moldova--Chișinău
Chișinău (Moldova)--Ethnic relations

Description/Summary

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

"The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 sheds new light on the little-known historical events surrounding the creation, administration, and liquidation of the Kishinev (Chisinau) ghetto during the first months following the Axis attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in late June 1941. Mass killings during the combined Romanian-German drive toward Kishinev in Bessarabia, after a year of Soviet rule in this Romanian border province, were followed by the shooting of thousands of Jews on the streets of the city during the first days of reestablished Romanian administration. Survivors were driven into a ghetto, persecuted, and liquidated by year's end. The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 is the first major study of these events. Often overshadowed by events in Germany and Poland, the history of the Holocaust in Romania, including what took place in Bessarabia (corresponding in large part with the territory of the modern Republic of Moldova), was obscured during decades of communist rule, denial, and policies that blocked access to wartime documentation. This book is the result of a lengthy research project that began with Paul A. Shapiro's travels to Romania for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to negotiate access to these documents."--
"The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation of Romania by Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

General Note:

"Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum".

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990036311670302486

ISBN:

9780817318642
081731864X
9780817388126
0817388125

OCLC Number:

896602589

Barcode:

010002800780