Soviet Jews in the war against Nazi Germany

Arad, Yitzhak, 1926-2021
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Title Soviet Jews in the war against Nazi Germany.
Original Library/publisher Yad Vashem Studies. Jerusalem
Яд Вашем
исследования. Иерусалим
Host Item Yad Vashem Studies 23 (1993) 73-125
Description Examines the participation of Jews in the Soviet military efforts during World War II and prior to it (including the Civil War in Spain, 1936-39) in the Army, Air Force, Navy, the engineering and medical corps, and in the war industry. Mentions participation of Jews in the resistance in the POW camps, including the revolt in Sobibor. Contends that Jewish servicemen in the Soviet armed forces were among the most loyal in the crucial early stages of the war, when many other soldiers surrendered or defected to the Germans. Nazi antisemitic propaganda directed at Soviet soldiers is also mentioned. Antisemitism, which was not absent in the ranks of the Soviet Army, caused many Jewish fighters to take non-Jewish names and to conceal their Jewish identity. Notes that Soviet postwar propaganda tended to diminish the Jewish participation in the war effort. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
See also in Hebrew.
Appeared in Russian as "Евреи СССР на фронтах войны с нацистской Германией" in "Яд Вашем
исследования" (2010) 177-224
Language English
Russian
Credits באדיבות יש ושם – רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה Courtesy of Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
National Library system number 990001210700705171
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