The Black Book of Soviet Jewry
The Black Book of Soviet Jewry or simply The Black Book, also known as The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry, is a 500-page document compiled for publication by Ilya Ehrenburg and Vasily Grossman originally in late 1944 in the Russian language. It was a result of the collaborative effort by the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) and members of the American Jewish community to document the anti-Jewish crimes of the Holocaust and the participation of Jews in the resistance movement against the Nazis during World War II. The 1991 Kyiv edition of The Black Book was subtitled The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout the Temporarily-Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the German Nazi Death Camps established on occupied Polish soil during the War 1941–1945.
Image: Ilya Erenburg's Black book
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg was a Soviet writer, revolutionary, journalist and historian.
Ehrenburg in 1959
Ehrenburg, early 20th century
Sketch by Marie Vorobieff featuring Diego Rivera, Amedeo Modigliani and Ehrenburg at Rivera's atelier, 1916. It is titled "When will the war end?"
Ehrenburg (left) with Ernest Hemingway and Gustav Regler in Spain, 1937.