Was There a Soviet Policy for Evacuating the Jews

The Case of the Annexed Territories

Bibliographic Data

ID8014276
AuthorsBen-Cion Pinchuk (corresponding author)
Year1980
Volume39
Issue1
Pages44-55
Publication date1980-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSlavic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2497301
OpenAlexW2319256788
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited1

As a result of the Soviet annexation of the Baltic States, eastern Poland, Bessarabia, and Northern Bucovina in 1939-40, the Soviet Union was left with the largest Jewish population in Europe. Given this large population, the fact that the Soviet Union had the greatest number of Jews who survived World War II has aroused the interest of researchers and drawn attention to the role of Soviet policy in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. Some of the reasons for the survival of Jews in Soviet-annexed territories seem obvious. In contrast to other European countries, only part of the USSR was occupiéd by German armies. Therefore, Jews could find refuge in the unoccupied regions. This simple and generally sufficient explanation is not the only one which has been offered, however. Some Western scholars have argued that the Soviet government had a specific policy designed to rescue Jews from the danger of annihilation. Soviet propaganda, particularly that aimed at Western audiences, maintained that millions of Jews owed their lives to Soviet rescue operations during the Holocaust

Ancient history · Annexation · Archaeology · Development economics · Economic history · Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union · German · Government (linguistics · Judaism · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Soviet union · The Holocaust · World War II · Demography · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law

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