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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960002003321

Autore

Himka John-Paul

Titolo

Ukrainian Nationalists and the Holocaust : OUN and UPA’s Participation in the Destruction of Ukrainian Jewry, 1941–1944 / / John-Paul Himka, Andreas Umland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hannover, : ibidem, 2021

ISBN

9783838275482

3838275489

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (509 pages)

Collana

Ukrainian Voices ; 12

Disciplina

940.531809477

Soggetti

Ukraine

Nationalism

Nationalismus

Holocaust

History

Geschichte

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-485) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Historiography -- 2. Sources -- 3. The Organization of  Ukrainian Nationalists -- 4. The First Soviets, 1939-41 -- 5. Anti-Jewish Violence in the Summer of 1941 -- 6. The Organization of  Ukrainian Nationalists and the  Ukrainian Police in German Service -- 7. The Fate of Jews in the  Ukrainian Nationalist Insurgency -- 8. Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Place and Name Index.

Sommario/riassunto

One quarter of all Holocaust victims lived on the territory that now forms Ukraine, yet the Holocaust there has not received due attention. This book delineates the participation of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and its armed force, the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (Ukrainska povstanska armiia—UPA), in the destruction of the Jewish population of Ukraine under German occupation in 1941–44. The extent of OUN and UPA’s culpability in the Holocaust has been a controversial issue in Ukraine and within the Ukrainian diaspora as well as in Jewish communities and Israel. Occasionally, the controversy has



broken into the press of North America, the EU, and Israel.  Triangulating sources from Jewish survivors, Soviet investigations, German documentation, documents produced by OUN itself, and memoirs of OUN activists, it has been possible to establish that: OUN militias were key actors in the anti-Jewish violence of summer 1941; OUN recruited for and infiltrated police formations that provided indispensable manpower for the Germans' mobile killing units; and in 1943, thousands of these policemen deserted from German service to join the OUN-led nationalist insurgency, during which UPA killed Jews who had managed to survive the major liquidations of 1942.