Memorialization and Memory: The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Fate of The Black Book in the Postwar Period

• In Event: The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee: What Happened and Why

Abstract

During the war, the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee pursued plans for a joint publication of a collection of testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust in Soviet territories occupied by the Nazis, but prospects for publication dimmed as the tide of war shifted in the favor of the Soviets and the particular suffering of Jews under Nazi occupation was downplayed by the regime, and publication of The Black Book was rejected even as it went to press, with the wartime experience of Soviet Jews thereby silenced.

Author

• Susan Zayer Rupp, Wake Forest U