About the Author

Ilya Ehrenburg (1891-1967) was a Soviet novelist and journalist. He is best known for his six volumes of memoirs. Vasily Grossman (1905-1964) was a major Soviet writer. His most important novel is Life and Fate. David Patterson is Bornblum Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Memphis. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the Holocaust, and has won the Koret Jewish Book Award. Irving Louis Horowitz is Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He also serves as the chairman and editorial director of Transaction Publishers. Helen Segall is professor emerita of Russian at Dickenson College. She is currently researching and writing a book on the Holocaust in Poland and the Western Ukraine.

Reviews

"[O]ne of the most important books in the vast literature on the Holocaust..... The extent of cruelty exhibited here and the uncontrolled ways in which it happened are a graphic demonstration of what the human race is capable of when left entirely to its own devices." - William B. Helmreich, Long Island Jewish World; "[P]repared by Ehrenburg and Grossman themselves, with fine literary skill.... Each section of the documents has a useful set of notes compiled by David Patterson, author of this excellent translation, which clarifies factual issues, and presents brief biographies of more significant figures." - Richard Overy, Times Literary Supplement