Pioneers and Partisans

The book weaves together oral histories, video testimonies, and memoirs produced in the former Soviet Union to show how the first generation of Soviet Jews, born after the foundation of the USSR, experienced the Nazi genocide and how they remember it after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.

Anika Walke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis.

Preface
Note on transliteration
Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1: On Methodology: Oral History and the Nazi Genocide
Chapter 2: Between Tradition and Transformation: Soviet Jews in the 1930s
Chapter 3: The End of Childhood: Young Soviet Jews in the Minsk Ghetto
Chapter 4: Suffering and Survival: The Destruction of Jewish Communities in Eastern Belorussia
Chapter 5: Fighting for Life and Victory: Refugees from the Ghettos and the Soviet Partisan Movement
Chapter 6: Of Refuge and Resistance: Labor for Survival in the "Zorin Family Unit"
Conclusion: Soviet Internationalism, Judaism, and the Nazi Genocide in Oral Histories
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