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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Goldenshteyn, Maksim Grigoriyevich (1988-....)
Titre(s) : So they remember [Texte imprimé] : a Jewish family's story of surviving the Holocaust in Soviet Ukraine / Maksim Goldenshteyn
Publication : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, copyright [2022]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-218) and index
"When we think of Nazi camps, names such as Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and Dachau come
instantly to mind. Yet the history of the Holocaust extends beyond those notorious
sites. In the former territory of Transnistria, located in occupied Soviet Ukraine
and governed by Nazi Germany's Romanian allies, many Jews perished due to disease,
starvation, and other horrific conditions. Through an intimate blending of memoir,
history, and reportage, So They Remember illuminates this oft-overlooked chapter of
the Holocaust. In December 1941, with the German-led invasion of the Soviet Union
in its sixth month, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy named Motl Braverman, along with
family members, was uprooted from his Ukrainian hometown and herded to the remote
village of Pechera, the site of a Romanian death camp. Author Maksim Goldenshteyn,
the grandson of Motl, first learned of his family's wartime experiences in 2012. Through
tireless research, Goldenshteyn spent years unraveling the story of Motl, his family
members, and their fellow prisoners. The author here renders their story through the
eyes of Motl and other children, who decades later would bear witness to the traumas
they suffered. Until now, Romanian historians and survivors have served as almost
the only chroniclers of the Holocaust in Transnistria. Goldenshteyn's account, based
on interviews with Soviet-born relatives and other survivors, archival documents,
and memoirs, is among the first full-length books to spotlight the Pechera camp, ominously
known by its prisoners as Mertvaya Petlya, or the "Death Noose." Unfortunately, as
the author explains, the Pechera camp was only one of some two hundred concentration
sites spread across Transnistria, where local Ukrainian policemen often conspired
with Romanian guards to brutalize the prisoners. In March 1944, the Red Army liberated
Motl's family and fellow captives. Yet for decades, according to the author, they
were silenced by Soviet policies enacted to erase all memory of Jewish wartime suffering.
So They Remember gives voice to this long-repressed history and documents how the
events at Pechera and other surrounding camps and ghettos would continue to shape
remaining survivors and their descendants."--Amazon.com
Sujet(s) : Braverman, Motl (1929-2015) -- Famille
Shoah -- Transnistrie (Ukraine ; territoire sous occupation allemande et roumaine, 1941-1944)
Konzentrationslager Pechera (Pechera, Ukraine)
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.530 89924 (23e éd.) = Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Étude en relation avec les Juifs
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780806176062. - ISBN 0806176067
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47293460b
Notice n° :
FRBNF47293460
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 1.. Beyond the Dnister -- ; 2.. The Death Noose -- ; 3.. Tulchyn -- ; 4.. The Road
to Pechera -- ; 5.. Into the Night -- ; 6.. Life on the Run -- ; 7.. Dzhuryn -- ;
8.. Silence -- ; 9.. America.
