Holocaust in Rovno: The Massacre at Sosenki Forest, November 1941

by J. Burds

Overview

In November 1941, near the city of Rovno, Ukraine, German death squads murdered over 23,000 Jews in what has been described as "the second Babi Yar." This meticulous and methodologically innovative study reconstructs the events at Rovno, and in the process exemplifies efforts to form a genuinely transnational history of the Holocaust.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137388391
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	12/03/2013
Series:	Palgrave Pivot
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Jeffrey Burds is an Associate Professor of History at Northeastern University and the Co-Director of The Center for the Study of Russia and the Soviet Union.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Intimacy of Violence 1. Holocaust, East versus West: The Political Economy of Genocide 2. Aktion: Holocaust in Rovno 3. Aftermath: The Legacies of the Rovno Massacre

Editorial Reviews

"This shockingly powerful and original book is the most detailed account ever written of the 'Second Babi Yar' in Rovno. Clearly narrating the entangled history of the city and the region of Rovno, it presents an excellent example of transnational history." - Hiroaki Kuromrya, Professor of History, Indiana University, USA, and author of Conscience on Trial: The Fate of Fourteen Pacifists in Stalin's Ukraine, 1952-1953 (2012)

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