Translated by Clayton Simon

Preface 7   Author's Foreword 21   Chapter 1 Features of the Holocaust in Belarus   1. A Demographic Profile of the Jews in Belorussia, 1939-1959 27 2. The quest for rescue in occupied territory   Life in the ghetto, trial by hunger 46   Demoralization of the prisoners 48   The quest for rescue 50   Organized escapes 55   Aid and rescue of Jews by German servicemen 58   The rescue of Jews by Christians 62 3. The fate of children during the years of occupation 67   The beginning of the war 68   Children in the ghetto 69   The saviours of children 73   Antisemitism and children 77   Children of mixed marriages 80   The behavior of non-Jewish spouses 82   The difference in status between Jewish and non-Jewish children 84   The number of victims among children 86   The influence of the Holocaust on the fate of children 88 4. Confiscation of Jewish Property 94   Chapter 2 Resistance to the Policy of Genocide   1. The battle in the ghetto of Minsk 102 2. Family camps and partisan units 119 3. Jews and Poles among the Belarusian partisans 129 4. Anti-Semitism in the Partisan Movement of Belorussia, 1941-1944 147   Chapter 3 The Ghettos of Belarus-examples of genocide   1. From materials of the Extraordinary Commission (Ch.G.K. USSR)   Baranovichi 160   Bol'shaya Berestovitsa 161   Borisov 162   Byten 163   Vasilishki 164   Vileika 164   Vitebsk 167   Vishnievo 168   Volkovysk 168   Volozhin 169   Vorob'evichi 171   Voronovo 171   Gorodishche 172   Gorodeya 173   Grodno 174   Derechin 175   Drogichin 176   Dyatlavo 176   Zembin 177   Ivye 178   Ilya 179   Kletsk 181   Kozlovshchina 182   Kokhanovo 183   Kurenets 183   Lida 185   Lyakhovichi 186   Molchad' 187   Myadel 188   Nesvizh 189   Orsha 190   Peski 191   Slavnoe 191   Surazh 192   Tolochin 193   Cherikov 194   Yanovichi 194 2. Witnesses to the Holocaust   Berezino 197   Glusk 198   Gorki 200   Zheludok 203   Klimovichi 204   Lyady 207   Minsk 209   Mozhyr 212   Novogrudok 215   Village of Ordat' 216   Plissa 218   Pogost-Zagorodski 220   Smilovichi 223   Smorgon' 225   Stolin 227   Turov 228   Uzda 230   Khotenchitsy 232 3. Ilya Ehrenburg on the crimes of Nazism in Belarus 234   Chapter 4 Encroachments on Memory   1. Cherven' 247 2. Rechitsa 259 3. Eternal monuments to the victims of genocide 278   Chapter 5 Historiography of the Holocaust   1. Jews in Borisov 288 2. Novogrudok: A Missing Chapter in the History of the Holocaust in Belarus 295 3. New approaches to the study of the Holocaust 303 Dictionary of basic terms and names used 314   Bibliography 329 The Series “Pamyat'” [Memory] 339   Books and Articles in Hebrew 340-341   Appendix   Demographic and social composition of the Jewish population in the Soviet Union up to 1941. 342   From an order of Field Marshal General Walter von Reichenau, Commander of the 6th Army; “On the behavior of troops in the East”. 343   Letter of P.K Ponomarenko, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, to Comrade Stalin 344   Address by the German Command 346   From an order of 4 November 1941 by the Field Command of Minsk on the re-naming of city streets 348   A Reminder to the Belorussian Policeman 349   Identifying signs for Jews 350   Report on the interrogation of prisoner-of-war Phillip Keffer, 1st company, 118th rifle regiment, 36th infantry division 352   From a list of names of Ch.G.K. of the USSR regarding the town of Rechitsa 353   Victims among the civilian population and prisoners of war in Belarus between 1941 and 1944. 355   Participation of Jews in the leadership of the Resistance in occupied territory of Belarus from 1941-1944. 356   Memorial complexes, monuments, and memorial markers to the victims of the Holocaust in Belarus established between 1945 and 1999 366   From the archives of the newspaper Ainikait 377   Table of the dynamics of the change in the Jewish population of Belarus from the 18th to the 20th century 382   “Nine Aspen Stakes” poem by Yanka Kupala 384   To the USSR Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee by M.G. Kel'man 386   About the book by L. Smilovitsky “The Holocaust of the Jews of Belarus” 387 Addresses of Jewish societies in Belarus 389 Addresses of Jewish societies in Israel 393 Index of names 394 Geographic index 409 Photographic documents 417   Russian Table of Contents

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