This publishing project was born as a crowdfunding project. In just three months, 537 people on the Planeta.ru website collected 1,3 million rubles, thanks to which the Black Book was finally published — almost 70 years after its creation.
Vasily Grossman and Ilya Ehrenburg have been collecting documents and living testimonies about the genocide of Jews on the territory of the USSR for several years and handed over the «Black Book» to the set in 1947. But the ready-made set was scattered for political reasons. The second volume has been added to the original edition of the Black Book today. In it, the historian Ilya Altman additionally included the most valuable materials from 27 volumes of documents collected in the past.
The past century has gone down in history as a century of catastrophes. His lesson is that any discrimination is monstrous, and everyone can turn out to be a “Jew”, “objectionable”, “unworthy of life” for one reason or another. It’s time to get used to it.
Corpus, 768 lbs., 416 lbs.