Notes, Jews in the USSR, 1917-2000
Dominican Republic the answer, 400-500
in 1940, never goes anywhere. Highest rate of Aliyah from former SU from
Birobidzhan.
Holocaust Erad's book changed the face of research and teaching Holocaust in IL,
Heb, not a whole lot in synthetic way in other langs. 2004, much less conjecture.
Rev in 1960s-70s about Eur, not SU. Everywhere but SU, records about ind Js on
pathways, ghettoization, labor, murder. SU, no Ger records, system fundamentally
diff. Still probs w #s. 2/3 killing in camps, ghettos. 2 mill SU Js. Slave labor complex
not known until recently, extensive throughout Europe. Not a straightforward
subject, several subjects intertwined, SU Holocaust. Js dying en masse certainly at
top. Context of total national mobilization for defeat of fascism. Unthinkable human
suffering. Tens of mill SU citizens died, many more suffered. Yet regime would never
admit, defeat of Germany meant taking up cause of Js. Rise in popular anti-