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World Jewish News
Book on Holocaust in Belarus
08.01.2009
A collection of articles, documents and memoirs "Lessons of Holocaust: History and Modern Times" is to be published in Minsk.
The collection consists of several chapters: Holocaust in the context of world history; Genocide of the Jewish population of Belarus during the Nazi occupation; Jews of Belarus in anti-Hitler resistance; Counteraction to Holocaust Denial; Archival materials; Memoirs.
The authors of this edition are historians and political essays writers from Belarus, Israel, Canada and the US. The research on Jewish refugees in Western Belarus and the way they were treated by the Soviet regime in 1939-1941 is of considerable interest, as well as studies on Jewish guerilla movement, tragedy of the Jews in the ghettos of Minsk, Pinsk and other cities, judenrats.
The current situation is represented by a publication on spreading the fraud Protocols of the Elders of Zion in post-Soviet Belarus, and also the documents on creation of the Memorial in the place of Jewish massacre in Minsk. The materials of the book are written in Russian and Belarussian.
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