“Writing the history of the Holocaust in Ukraine has been and probably will continue to be a very complicated, politically perilous endeavor.” — Historian Wendy Lower
The fates of Ukrainians during the Holocaust, both Jews and non-Jews, remain a subject of debate, with political rhetoric relating that history to present-day conflict. The publications featured below shed light on that country’s complex history.
The Holocaust in Ukraine
This special edition of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies journal, originally published by Oxford University in 2014, represents more than a decade of research and writing on Ukraine by the Museum. In 2022, the editors selected additional articles produced over the past nine years that represent new developments and explorations in the field.
Contents:
Introduction (PDF) by Wendy Lower
Operation Reinhard in District Galicia: Three Levels of Narrative about the Holocaust, by Anna Wylegała (2020)
Last Stop in Lwów: Janowska as a Hybrid Camp, by Waitman Wade Beorn (2018)
One Day in Israylovka: A Case Study of the Holocaust in Southeastern Ukraine, by Krzysztof Lada, Peter Monteath (2017)
Next to Babi Yar: The Syrets Concentration Camp and the Evolution of Nazi Terror in Kiev, by Stanislav Aristov (2015)
“The Corpses in the Ravine Were Women, Men, and Children”: Written Testimonies from 1941 on the Babi Yar Massacre, by Karel C. Berkhoff (2015)
Death Sentence Despite the Law: A Secret 1962 Crimes-against-Humanity Trial in Kiev, by Lev Simkin (2013)
Accomplices to Extermination: Municipal Government and the Holocaust in Kharkiv, 1941–1942, by Yuri Radchenko (2013)
A Community of Violence: The SiPo/SD and Its Role in the Nazi Terror System in Generalbezirk Kiew, by Alexander V. Prusin (2007)
Holocaust Sites in Ukraine: Pechora and the Politics of Memorialization, by Rebecca L. Golbert (2004)
‘Anticipatory Obedience’ and the Nazi Implementation of the Holocaust in the Ukraine: A Case Study of Central and Peripheral Forces in the Generalbezirk Zhytomyr, 1941–1944, by Wendy Lower (2002)
Publications
Bergen, Doris. Viina ta henotsyd: korotka istoriya Holokostu. - Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2021 [Доріс Берґен, Війна та геноцид. Коротка історія Голокосту. - Київ: Дух і Літера, 2021]: Museum-supported Ukrainian translation of War and Genocide, by Doris Bergen.
Brandon, Ray and Wendy Lower, eds. The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony, Memorialization. Bloomington: Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008. Also published in Ukrainian as: Shoah v Ukrajini: istoriya, svidchennya, uvichnennya / za red. Reya Brandona ta Vendi Lauer. - Kyiv, Dukh i Litera, 2015 [Шоа в Україні: історія, свідчення, увічнення / за ред. Рея Брандона та Венді Лауер. - Київ : Дух і Літера, 2015].
Dean, Martin. Collaboration in the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941–44. New York: St. Martin's Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1999. Also published in Russian as: Martin Din, Posobniki Kholokosta: Prestupleniya mestnoi politsii Belorussii i Ukrainy 1941–1944. Sankt-Peterburg: Academicheskij Proekt in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008.
Dean, Martin. Robbing the Jews: The Confiscation of Jewish Property in the Holocaust, 1933–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008.
Dean, Martin, Constantin Goschler, and Phillip Ther, eds. Robbery and Restitution: The Conflict over Jewish Property in Europe. New York: Berghahn Books, 2007.
Ioanid, Radu. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the Antonescu Regime, 1940–1944. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2000.
Lower, Wendy. Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust in Ukraine. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005.
Lower, Wendy, ed. The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia. Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2011.
Rubenstein, Joshua and Ilya Altman, eds. The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories. Translated by Christopher Morris and Joshua Rubenstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2008.
Wells, Leon Weliczker. The Janowska Road. Washington, D.C.: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1999.
Occasional Papers
Bartov, Omer. From The Holocaust in Galicia to Contemporary Genocide: Common Ground–Historical Differences. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2003, 2007.
Berkhoff, Karel C. Babi Yar: Site of Mass Murder, Ravine of Oblivion. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012.
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Symposium Presentations. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005.
The Holocaust in Ukraine: New Sources and Perspectives: Conference Presentations. Washington, DC: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2013.
