Shot by Shot: The Holocaust in German-Occupied Soviet Territory

Publisher: Facing History and Ourselves

Shot by Shot: The Holocaust in German-Occupied Soviet Territory,an ebook by Joshua Rubenstein, author and associate at Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian studies, contains personal survivor testimony and archival video footage as well as primary source documents that provide detailed perspectives of the events unfolding during the Holocaust in Soviet territories.

In the months following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Nazis murdered nearly a million Jews in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, Belorussia, and Russia. It was here, before the Nazis killed a single person in the gas chambers of Treblinka, or took the Jews of Western Europe by train to killing centers in Poland, that they first embarked on their murderous intentions.

Discover primary source documents, including reports from German officers, print and video interviews with Jewish survivors, articles from the Soviet and American press about the killings and the liberation of concentration camps by Red Army units, and first-hand accounts of the open air massacres that targeted the Jews throughout German-occupied Soviet territories.

Joshua Rubenstein wrote and compiled Shot by Shot: The Holocaust in German-Occupied Soviet Territory while serving as Scholar-in-Residence at Facing History and Ourselves.  He is an associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and has written and edited several books about Soviet and Soviet Jewish history, including biographies of the writer and journalist Ilya Ehrenburg as well as Leon Trotsky.  He was the American editor of Stalin’s Secret Pogrom: The Postwar Inquisition of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee which received a National Jewish Book Award.  Rubenstein was also a longtime staff member of Amnesty International USA, serving as New England Coordinator and Northeast Regional Director from 1975 to 2012. www.joshuarubenstein.com