International Conference
November 16–17, 2008

Probably for every frontovik, the participation in the war remained forever, if not a point of pride, then at least a basis for self-respect . . . . We understood that this was a war where we had to save our country, our people, and this war was for truth, for the victory of the good over evil.

—Boris Rabiner, Red Army veteran, May 2007

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, masses of rich material have become available providing new insights into previously underresearched aspects of the Holocaust and World War II on Soviet territory. This conference looks at those insights, examining the Soviet Jewish experience during World War II and the Holocaust.

The conference focuses on Soviet Jews in armed combat in the struggle against the Nazis and their collaborators; Soviet Jewish life and culture during the war; collaboration as a Soviet and post-Soviet issue; the Holocaust and the evolution of Soviet Jewish consciousness; German, Axis, and Soviet policies and attitudes during the Holocaust; Nazi and Axis camps and ghettos in the Soviet Union; and representations of Jewish soldiers in the press, literature, and films.