Jewish Population in the USSR on the Eve of the Holocaust
Mordechai Altshuler, Soviet Jewry on the Eve of the Holocaust: A Social and Demographic Profile, Jerusalem: The Center for Research of East European Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1998, pp. 9-19, 47-62, 106-132, 148 – 163, 323.
Murder Sites in the Occupied Soviet Union: Personal Voice in Overall Perspective
Web-site: The Untold Stories: The Murder sites of the Jews in the Occupies Territories of the Former USSR
Arkadi Zeltser, ed., To Pour Out My Bitter Soul: Letters of Jews from the USSR 1941 – 1945, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2016.
The Holocaust in the Soviet Union: Minsk as a Case Study.
Barbara Epstein, The Minsk Ghetto, 1941 – 1943: Jewish Resistance and Soviet Internationalism, Berkley: University of California Press, 2008, pp. 77 – 109.
Anika Walke, "Jewish Youth in the Minsk Ghetto – How Age and Gender Mattered", Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 15, 3 (Summer 2014), pp. 535 - 562.
German Military and Police Units and the Holocaust in the USSR
Hannes Heer, "Killing Fields: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941-1942", Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 1(1997), pp. 79–101.
Edward B. Westermann, Hitler's Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (Lawrence, Kan. 2005), pp. 163–199.
Local Collaboration in the Holocaust
Martin Dean, “Local Collaboration in the Holocaust in Eastern Europe,” in Dan Stone. ed., The Historiography of the Holocaust (Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2004), pp. 120-140.
Leonid Rein, “Local Collaboration in the Execution of the 'Final Solution' in Nazi-Occupied Belorussia”, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 20 (3), winter 2006, pp. 381–409.
Righteous Among the Nations
The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. Europe II, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. – Former Soviet Union, pp. XLVII – LXXXVI.
Nazi anti-Communism and the Holocaust in the USSR
Waddington Lorna. Hitler's Crusade: Bolshevism, the Jews and the Myth of Conspiracy. Paperback ed.; revised ed. New York: I. B. Tauris, distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Feferman Kiril. “The Jews’ War’: Attitudes of Soviet Jewish Soldiers and Officers towards the USSR in 1940-41.” The Journal of Slavic Military Studies 27, 4 (2014): 574-590.
Soviet Muslims and the Holocaust
David Motadel, “Islam and Germany’s War in the Soviet Borderlands, 1941–5.” Journal of Contemporary History 48 (October 2013), pp. 784-820.
Mikhail Tyaglyi, “Antisemitic doctrine in the Tatar Newspaper ‘Azat Kirim’ (1942-1944),” Dapim: Studies on the Shoah 25 (2011), pp. 161-182.
The Eastern Groups of Jews in the Framework of Nazi Racial Policy.
Kiril Feferman, “Nazi Germany and the Karaites in 1938-44: Between Racial Theory and Realpolitik.” Nationalities Papers 39, 2 (March 2011), pp. 277-294.
Kiril Feferman, “Nazi Germany and the Mountain Jews: Was There a Policy?” Holocaust and Genocide Studies 21, 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 96-114.
Jews in the Red Army
Yad Vashem's Project "Jews in the Red Army, 1941-1945"
Mordechai Altshuler, “Jewish Combatants of the Red Army Confront the Holocaust,” in Harriet Murav and Gennady Estraikh, eds., Soviet Jews in World War II: Fighting Witnessing, Remembering (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2014), pp. 16-35.
Yitzhak Arad, In the Shadow of the Red Banner: Soviet Jews in War Against Nazi Germany (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2010), pp. 1-24.
Regional Similarities and Unique Features
Leonid Rein, “Local Collaboration in the Execution of the “Final Solution" in Nazi-occupied Belarussia,” Holocaust and Genocide Studies, vol. 20, No. 3, 2006, pp. 381-409
Dieter Pohl, “The murder of Ukraine's Jews under German Military Administration and in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine,” in Ray Brandon, Wendy Lower, eds., The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony Memorialization (Bloomington & Indianapolis, 2008), pp. 23–77.
Dennis Deletant, "Transnistria and the Romanian Solution to the "Jewish Problem" in Ray Brandon, Wendy Lower, eds., The Shoah in Ukraine: History, Testimony Memorialization (Bloomington & Indianapolis: 2008), pp. 156-190.
Jews in the Soviet Interior during World War II
Mordechai Altshuler, “Evacuation and Escape During the Course of the Soviet-German War,” Dapim: Studies on the Holocaust, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2014), pp. 57-73.
Rebecca Manley, “The Perils of Displacement: The Soviet Evacuee between Refugee and Evacuee,” Contemporary European History (2007), pp. 495-509.
Shternshis Anna. “Between Life and Death: Why Some Soviet Jews Decided to Leave and Others to Stay in 1941,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 15, 3 (Summer 2014), pp. 477-504.
Soviet Propaganda and the Holocaust
Ilya Altman, “The History and Fate of the Black Book and the Unknown Black Book,” in Joshua Rubenstein and Ilya Altman, eds., The Unknown Black Book (Bloomington and Indianapolis, 2008), pp. xix–xxxix.
Karel C. Berkhoff, “Total Annihilation of the Jewish population: The Holocaust in the Soviet Media,” Kritika. Vol. 10, No. 1, 2009, pp. 61–105, or in Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist, Alexander M. Martin, eds., The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014), pp. 83 – 117.
Zeltser, “Differing Views among Red Army Personnel about the Nazi Mass Murder of Jews,” Kritika: Exploration in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 15, Number 3, Summer 2014, pp. 563–590.
General overview: Mordechai Altshuler, "The Unique Features of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union," in Yaacov Ro'i, ed., Jews and Jewish Life in Russia and the Soviet Union (Ilford: Frank Cass, 1995), pp. 171–188.
