Soviet Survivors

Soviet Survivors of Nazi Rule: The First Testimonies

Germany’s war of extermination against the Soviet Union (1941-1945) caused extreme suffering for millions of Soviet citizens. To this day, the fate of these people is barely known. Hundreds of interviews with Soviet survivors of the German occupation have now been found in Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian archives. Remarkably, these interviews were conducted by historians before the end of the Second World War. The value of these eyewitness accounts is inestimable: they feature the voices of witnesses to history who have yet remained outside the historical record, and as such they expand our knowledge of the German war of extermination.

The interview transcripts can be read in the original Russian or Ukrainian, as well as some of them in German and English translation.

This edition is aimed at researchers and anyone else interested in the history of the Holocaust and the Second World War.