商品簡介
During the Nazis' ascendency and their subsequent occupation of much of Europe, they plundered the documents and other cultural treasures of Jewish organizations and of other groups and individuals they deemed to be enemies of the Reich. It seems likely that many of these materials were to be sources for an institute to study the "Jewish Question." When the Germans finally were crushed, many of these looted collections, as well as records of Nazi state agencies that persecuted and murdered Jews, were discovered by the Soviet Army. The collections were transferred to Moscow and held for decades in the closed, secret "Special Archive of the USSR," which eventually was absorbed by the Russian State Military Archive. Now accessible in Moscow, and with some of the records more recently available in their countries of origin and in the United States, this catalogue and guide supplies the first comprehensive, collection-by-collection, English-language description of this rich historical and cultural documentation that the Nazis meant to be among the only vestiges of the millions of victims they would purposefully annihilate. Scholars and lay researchers will find this reference a unique and indispensable guide to the invaluable remains of a world that was destroyed.
作者簡介
David E. Fishman is Professor of Jewish History and Director of Project Judaica at the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York).
Mark Kupovetsky is Executive Director of the Center for Biblical and Jewish Studies at the Russian State University for the Humanities.