Estimating the Number of Jewish Refugees, Deportees, and Draftees from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina in the Non-Occupied Soviet Territories
Previous estimates of the number of Jews from Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina (annexed by the USSR in summer 1940) who fled the 1941 Axis invasion are based on the estimated total number of Romanian Jews as of June 1941, itself based on the Romanian census of 1930; on the estimated number of Jews the returning Romanians murdered or deported to newly occupied Transnistria; on estimates of the number who died there from starvation and disease; and on estimates of the number who survived in Transnistria. This work, by contrast, draws upon heretofore unexplored Soviet documentation. Though these materials, too, give an incomplete picture, they and other non-archival sources allow the author to improve upon previous guesses, as well as to reflect on the experience of the refugees in the unoccupied Soviet territories.
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Accomplices to Extermination: Municipal Government and the Holocaust in Kharkiv, 1941-1942
During the Germans' census of December 1941, local officials in Kharkiv played a crucial role in identifying Jews, evicting them from their apartments, and forcing them into a temporary ghetto in the barracks of the Kharkiv Machine-Tool Factory and the Kharkiv Tractor Factory. The tenth district council was particularly closely involved in ghettoization, and formed a security team to help German soldiers prevent escapes. Employees of that council, along with former ghetto guards, looted the possessions of the Jews after the Germans and, with other indigenous accomplices, helped murder them and dispose of the bodies. The behavior of these local actors sheds new light on the "Ordinary Men" debate.
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