Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust
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Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust by John-Paul Himka
One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived on the territory that now forms Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. This book delineates the participation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed force, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska povstanska armiia--UPA), in the destruction of the Jewish population of Ukraine under German occupation in 1941-44. The extent of OUN and UPA's culpability in the Holocaust has been a controversial issue in Ukraine and within the Ukrainian diaspora as well as in Jewish communities and Israel. Occasionally, the controversy has broken into the press of North America, the EU, and Israel. Triangulating sources from Jewish survivors, Soviet investigations, German documentation, documents produced by OUN itself, and memoirs of OUN activists, it has been possible to establish that: OUN militias were key actors in the anti-Jewish violence of summer 1941; OUN recruited for and infiltrated police formations that provided indispensable manpower for the Germans' mobile killing units; and in 1943, thousands of these policemen deserted from German service to join the OUN-led nationalist insurgency, during which UPA killed Jews who had managed to survive the major liquidations of 1942.
"This outstanding book is the first comprehensive study of the involvement of the OUN-UPA in the HolocaustClearly written, forcefully argued, based on deep knowledge of the existing literature in all relevant languages and on a mass of archival documentation, and admirably balanced,Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaustwill remain the definitive book on the topic for years to come." -Omer Bartov, John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History, Department of History, Brown University
"This is the most meticulously researched and definitive history of the Ukrainian nationalist movement's collaboration in the Holocaust. Himka's precise account illuminates the virulent antisemitism that pervaded this movement like other fascist campaigns during the Second World War. In painstaking detail and drawing from multilingual testimonies, Himka pinpoints the units, places, and individual perpetrators and recounts the suffering of Jews, Poles, and Ukrainian embroiled in the devastation of western Ukraine." -Wendy Lower, John K. Roth Professor of History & George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College
"This is the most meticulously researched and definitive history of the Ukrainian nationalist movement's collaboration in the Holocaust. Himka's precise account illuminates the virulent antisemitism that pervaded this movement like other fascist campaigns during the Second World War. In painstaking detail and drawing from multilingual testimonies, Himka pinpoints the units, places, and individual perpetrators and recounts the suffering of Jews, Poles, and Ukrainian embroiled in the devastation of western Ukraine." -Wendy Lower, John K. Roth Professor of History & George R. Roberts Fellow, Claremont McKenna College
Himka, John-Paul: - John-Paul Himka is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783838215488 |
| ISBN 10 | 3838215486 |
| Title | Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust |
| Author | John Paul Himka |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon |
| Year published | 2023-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 540 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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