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Title

The Kishinev ghetto, 1941-1942 : a documentary history of the Holocaust in Romania's contested borderlands / Paul A. Shapiro ; with chronology by Radu Ioanid and Brewster Chamberlin ; document translations by Angela Jianu.

Author

Shapiro, Paul A.

Publication

Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2015]

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Additional Authors

• Ioanid, Radu
• Chamberlin, Brewster S.
• Jianu, Angela

Description

xiii, 262 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 sheds new light on the little-known historical events surrounding the creation, administration, and liquidation of the Kishinev (Chisinau) ghetto during the first months following the Axis attack on the Soviet Union (Operation Barbarossa) in late June 1941. Mass killings during the combined Romanian-German drive toward Kishinev in Bessarabia, after a year of Soviet rule in this Romanian border province, were followed by the shooting of thousands of Jews on the streets of the city during the first days of reestablished Romanian administration. Survivors were driven into a ghetto, persecuted, and liquidated by year's end. The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 is the first major study of these events. Often overshadowed by events in Germany and Poland, the history of the Holocaust in Romania, including what took place in Bessarabia (corresponding in large part with the territory of the modern Republic of Moldova), was obscured during decades of communist rule, denial, and policies that blocked access to wartime documentation. This book is the result of a lengthy research project that began with Paul A. Shapiro's travels to Romania for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to negotiate access to these documents."--
• "The Kishinev Ghetto, 1941-1942 offers a wealth of primary sources and insightful commentary about the little-known slaughter of Jewish residents of Kishinev (Chisinau) under the military occupation of Romania by Marshal Ion Antonescu, a Hitler ally"--

Subject

• Jews > History > Chișinău > 20th century
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Chișinău
• Chișinău (Moldova) > Ethnic relations

Note

• "Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9780817318642
• 081731864X
• 9780817388126
• 0817388125

LCCN

2014046405

OCLC

• ocn896602589
• SCSB-14424316

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library