Holocaust in the Soviet Union

Preface Part One: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union Prior to World War Two 1. Jews in Czarist Russia; 2. Jews in the USSR and in the Annexed Territories between the Two World Wars Part Two: The Impact of Political and Military Developments on the Jews of Eastern Europe; September 1, 1939 - June 22, 1941 3. German - Soviet Relations and Geo-Political Changes in eastern Europe; 4. The Jews in the Soviet Annexed Territories; 5. Preparations in Germany for the Attack on the Soviet Union and the Annihilation of the Jews Part Three: German Attack on the Soviet Union 6. Invasion under the Slogan "War on Judeo-Bolshevism"; 7. Evacuation of Soviet Population - Jews in Organized and Individual Evacuation; 8. Anti-Jewish Pogroms During the Early Days of the Occupation; 9. The German Administration in the Occupied Territories and its Anti-Jewish Policy Part Four: Mass Murder - First Stage: June 22, 1941 - Winter 1941/42 10. Einsatzgruppen Routes of Advance and Method of Extermination; 11. Reichskommissariat Ostland - Ghettos and Extermination; 12. Reichskommissariat Ukraine - Ghettos and Extermination; 13. Military Administration Areas - Ghettos and Extermination; 14. Extermination of the Jews of Crimea; 15. The German Army from "Freedom of Action" for the Einsatzgruppen to Active Collaboration in the Murders; 16. Persecution of the Jews in District Galicia; 17. Romania and Transnistria - Expulsion and Mass Murder Part Five: Mass Murder - Second Stage: From Spring to Late 1942 18. The Annihilation in Ostland and in Grodno-Volkovysk Region (Generalbezirk Bialystok); 19. Annihilation in Reichskommissariat Ukraine; 20. Mass Murder in District Galicia - Operation Reinhard; 21. Annihilation in Area under Military Administration; 22. Transnistria - Life in the Shadow of Death Part Six: Mass Murder - Third Stage: From Early 1943 until the End of German Occupation 23. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in Reichskommissariat Ostland; 24. Liquidation of the Last Ghettos in

Yitzhak Arad served as the director of Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Authority, from 1972 to 1993. He is now retired but continues to research and write about the Holocaust. He is the author or editor of several books, including "Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union," 8th edition (Nebraska 1999); "Ponary Diary, 1941-1943: A Bystander's Account of a Mass Murder"; and "Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps."

"Yitzhak Arad has produced a notable work that is particularly valuable for its comprehensive documentation of Nazi crimes over a large geographic area." Waitman W. Beorn, Holocaust and Genocide Studies "[The Holocaust in the Soviet Union] is a magisterial work of great significance. Particularly for readers more familiar with the Holocaust in western Europe and occupied Poland, there is a great deal to learn from it." Maarten Pereboom, Shofar "This book is a supreme achievement and an essential work for all Holocaust libraries." Hallie Cantor, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter "A masterful synthesis... This study provides a much-needed panoramic view in a field that has produced mostly regional and microstudies in the past two decades... Arad's remarkable tome has both an encyclopedic as well as broad-brush quality to it that makes it required reading in Holocaust Studies." Bradley D. Woodworth, Russian Review "Arad's book constitutes a welcome and valuable contribution to Holocaust scholarship." earunas Liekis, Journal of Baltic Studies