Abstract:
During World War II, the Soviet government, in order to arouse allies, especially American Jews, in support of the Patriotic War, approved the Jewish AntiFascist Committee in the USSR and foreign Jewish Organizations to compile the information The Black Book with an aim to expose the crime of persecution and slaughter of the Jews by Nazi Germany and its accomplices in Europe, particularly in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. During the codification process, though there were many contradictions and conflic ts within the Committee and between it and the Jewish organizations of the United States in terms of the version and content of the book, The Black Book was successfully published abroad after the war, and played an important role in the Nuremberg Trials. However, the Russian version of The Black Book was eventually banned and destroyed by the Soviet authorities, and subsequently as one of main incriminating evidence for the cleansing of the Jewish AntiFascist Committee, owing to the outbreak of Cold War, Soviet authorities’ dissatisfaction with the content and the resurrection of national antiSemitism in the USSR. The history of The Black Book bears witness to the transformation of Jewish policy from World War II to Cold War in the Soviet Union.K