The End of Jewish Odessa
Friday, March 25th, 2011
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Friday, March 25, 2011 | 12:00PM - 2:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Description
In the fall of 1941, there were around 200,000 Jews in Odessa, a third of the city’s population. By the spring of 1944, an informal Soviet census counted 48 people left in the community. Drawing from his recent book ODESSA: GENIUS AND DEATH IN A CITY OF DREAMS (W. W. Norton, 2011), Charles King examines the fate of one of the Soviet Union’s most vibrant Jewish communities during the Second World War. Based on new research in the State Archives of the Odessa Region, the talk will pay particular attention to the practice of neighborly denunciation in the city and the role of the Romanian occupation forces which controlled the city throughout the war.
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