Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
support for war. Committee Einkeit, culture, identity. After war, awful conditions.
Depression, famines, 46-47, millions of people w/o place to live. Receives govt $ to
establish edu in Yiddish. Pre-war, no reason for parents to send to Yiddish schools,
like Belarussians to send to Belarussian schools. Committee's project doomed from
beginning. Nothing to do with, hard to find teacher. Places in former Pale, destroyed,
communities destroyed if houses still there. Golkom, municipality, didn't help. No
one to write to except for J anti-fascist committee, tens of thousands of petitions.
High clerks, should be able to help, and they did help some. Vasily Groisman,
Ehrenburg, big party members. Groisman from Berdichev, destroyed. Began to
collect stories, testimonies, for black book 46. Gathering from 44. Govt didn't allow
because of collaboration, friendship of peoples. Staloin began to rein in. 46-47, war
w partisans in Ukraine