States News Service, USA
October 30, 2008 Thursday
SCHOLAR OF RUSSIAN JEWRY TO DISCUSS NEW BOOK ON NAZI OCCUPATION OF
SOVIET RUSSIA
Worcester, MA
The following information was released by Clark University:
Clark University’s Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies will present a talk by noted Russian Jewry scholar Joshua
Rubenstein on the topic of his new book, "The Unknown Black Book: The
Holocaust on German-Occupied Soviet Territory and the Response by
Soviet Jewish Intellectuals." This event will take place Wednesday,
November 12, at 4 p.m. in the Rose Library of the Cohen-Lasry House,
11 Hawthorne Street, Worcester.
Rubenstein’s latest book documents the lesser known atrocities
committed by the Nazis in German-occupied Soviet territories during
World War II. Recently translated into English, the book records the
first-hand accounts of survivors of the Final Solution in the
USSR. The descriptions of work camps, starvation, and brutality
dramatically illustrate the extent of Nazi-perpetrated violence in the
Soviet territories of Belorussia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia and
Estonia.
Rubenstein is a long-time fellow of Harvard University’s Davis Center
for Russian and Eurasian Studies and widely known advocate for human
rights. Since 1975 he has been the Northeast Regional Director of
Amnesty International USA, overseeing Amnesty chapters throughout New
England, New York, and New Jersey. A noted author, his past works have
examined the struggle for human rights in Soviet and post-Soviet
Russia.
This event is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact 508-793-8897.
The mission of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide
Studies reaches beyond the boundaries of the University: to educate
professionals of many fields about genocides and the Holocaust; to
provide a lecture series free of charge and open to the public; to use
scholarship to address current problems stemming from the murderous
past; and to participate in the public discussion about a host of
issues ranging from the importance of intervention in genocidal
situations today to the significance of state-sponsored denial of the
Armenian genocide and the well-funded denial of the Holocaust.
Dedicated to teaching, research, and public service, the Center trains
the next cadre of Holocaust historians and genocide studies scholars
of the future, teachers, Holocaust museum directors and curators, and
experts in non-governmental organizations and government agencies. The
establishment of this Ph.D. program has been acclaimed by experts in
the field as the most decisive step to date in furthering scholarship
about the Holocaust and other genocides, particularly the Armenian
Genocide.
For a full listing of Clark events, visit