Jefim Gechtman

Jefim Gechtman ( Russian Ефим Гехтман ; scientific transliteration Efim Gechtman ; born 1914 ; died 1977 ) was a Soviet journalist and publicist . He is an important contemporary witness for the Holocaust and the crimes of the Wehrmacht in Ukraine (his homeland) and in Riga ( Latvia ). During the war he worked as a front-line reporter . He had the rank of captain . He wrote for the army newspaper Red Star ( Krasnaya Zvezda ). He was a contemporary witness of the invasion of the Wehrmacht in Riga on July 1, 1941 . For the black book he contributed: In the homeland ( Brailow , Ukraine) and Riga (Latvia).

See also

• Riga ghetto

literature

• Wassili Grossman / Ilja Ehrenburg (ed.): The Black Book - The Genocide of the Soviet Jews. Rowohlt-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 (editor of the German edition: Arno Lustiger )
• Arno Lustiger : Rotbuch: Stalin and the Jews. Berlin 1998 (TB 2nd A. 2002)
• Polly M. Zavadivker: Blood and Ink: Russian and Soviet Jewish Chroniclers of Catastrophe from World War I to World II. University of California, Santa Cruz 2013 Online
• Antonella Salomoni: L'Unione Sovietica e la Shoah: genocidio, resistenza, rimozione. 2007 ( partial online view )

Web links

• The Black Book, Part 1 (read in Russian)

References and footnotes

1. ↑ life data after Polly M. Zavadivker, p 9 (search: "Efim Gekhman").
2. ↑ Russian Капитан / kapitan
3. ↑ medicamondiale.org (text excerpt)
4. ^ The black book on the criminal mass extermination of the Jews by the fascist German conquerors in the temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet Union and in the fascist extermination camps of Poland during the war of 1941–1945 . Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.). German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger : Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994. ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .
5. ↑ Polly M. Zavadivker points out that Gechtman, who was friends with Grossman, first published the essay Meyn heym shtetl Broilov (about his hometown Brailow in the Ukraine ) in the Ejnikajt newspaper (May 25, 1944) and translated it into Russian for the Black Book ( inside with the heading: Na rodine: Brailow / На Родине (Браилов)).