The Unknown Black Book

The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories

edited by Joshua Rubenstein and Ilya Altman

Published by Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Jewish Studies Program at Trinity College is pleased to present Joshua Rubenstein, the Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA, for a look at first-hand accounts of WWII atrocities in Soviet territories.

The Unknown Black Book provides, for the first time in English, a revelatory compilation of testimonies from Jews who survived open-air massacres and other atrocities carried out by the Germans and their allies in the occupied Soviet territories during World War II. Collected under the direction of two renowned Soviet Jewish journalists, Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman, these documents are first-hand accounts by survivors of work camps, ghettos, forced marches, beatings, starvation, and disease.

Thursday, March 27 8:00 p.m.

Trinity College

Reese Room, Smith House

For further information call (860) 297 2472

The Unknown Black Book invites the reader to enter an almost unimaginable world where atrocity became a way of life and survival a miracle...Killing on the Eastern front was raw and unmediated violence. The Unknown Black Book captures that grim reality of race murder and at the same time disarms denial.

                                                                        Richard Overy, author of The Dictators:                                                                             Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia

Joshua Rubenstein is Northeast Regional Director of Amnesty International USA and a longtime associate at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

Ilya Altman is director of the Center for Holocaust Research and Education in Moscow.