Черная книга

"The Black Book" ia a unique archive of documents and eyewitness accounts of crimes against Jews in the Soviet Union and Poland during the Second World War. The book was created by a large group of Soviet journalists and writers under the direction of Ilia Erenburg and Vasili Grossman in the 1940s. Today, it is known worldwide as one of the largest investigations of Nazi crimes. But neither in the Soviet Union nor Russia, "The Black Book" was be published. The preparatory materials for "The Black Book" are 27 volumes, consisting of original texts, transcripts, photographs and maps, and were in the archives of the Ministry of State Security. The researchers first got access to them only in the early 90s.