The Shoah in Ukraine

Ray Brandon is a freelance editor, translator, and researcher based in Berlin. A former editor at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, English Edition, he has also lived and worked in Ukraine and Poland. Wendy Lower is a research fellow and lecturer at Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet in Munich. Author of Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine, she is a past research fellow and Director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

List of Maps Acknowledgments Introduction / Ray Brandon and Wendy Lower 1. The Murder of Ukraine's Jews under German Military Administration and in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine / Dieter Pohl 2. The Life and Death of Western Volhynian Jewry, 1921-1945 / Timothy Snyder 3. Shades of Grey: Reflections on Jewish-Ukrainian and German-Ukrainian Relations in Galicia / Frank Golczewski 4. Transnistria and the Romanian Solution to the "Jewish Problem" / Dennis Deletant 5. Annihilation and Labor: Jews and Thoroughfare IV in Central Ukraine / Andrej Angrick 6. "In him lies the weight of the entire administration": Nazi Civilian Rulers and the Holocaust in Zhytomyr / Wendy Lower 7. Soviet Ethnic Germans and the Holocaust in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, 1941-1944 / Martin Dean 8. Jewish Losses in Ukraine, 1941-1944 / Alexander Kruglov 9. Dina Pronicheva's Story of Surviving the Babi Yar Massacre: German, Jewish, Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian Records / Karel C. Berkhoff 10. White Spaces and Black Holes: Eastern Galicia's Past and Present / Omer Bartov Map Sources Selected Supplemental Bibliography Contributors Index

"Bitter memories and the specter of the Holocaust continue to haunt Jewish-Ukrainian relations... Only a full admission of the disturbing facts of the past and a full respect for the perpetuation of the memory of the former Jewish communities may at least partly exorcise the guilt and open a new page [in their] mutual relations. Perhaps this book may serve as one of the guiding lights in this direction." Jerusalem Post "An excellent volume that approaches the Holocaust in Ukraine from a variety of angles... Highlights the complexity of the 'Final Solution' in Ukraine." Jeff Rutherford "Deserving special note are Timothy Snyder's chapter on Volhynian Jewry for its elegant and diligent use of both general and Jewish sources; and Karel C. Berkhoff 's sensitive analysis of the various testimonies of Dina Pronicheva, who survived the nightmarish Babi Yar massacre. Omer Bar-Tov concludes the book with an overview of how the Jewish facets of Eastern Galicia's history are systematically ignored and erased by Ukrainians in whose historical consciousness there is no room for how Jews lived and were murdered in a region that was a center of Jewish culture and religion." Jewish Book World "A useful introduction to a very complex topic, but it also highlights the work remaining for scholars in Ukraine and elsewhere and the continuing need for further international scholarly collaboration." Sean Martin, The Russian Review "This collection is a worthy enterprise that offers new insights into the Holocaust on the territory of contemporary Ukraine. ...The investigation of the Holocaust in Ukraine, as well as in Belarus to the north where some 900,000 Jews died, is finally under way." American Historical Review