Sohrani moi pis'ma. / Save my letters. Moscow, 2010

In Russian. Short description: Save my letters. Moscow, 2010. The publishing house MIK published the book Save my letters. A collection of letters from Jews during the Great Patriotic War. Issue 2. The book is edited by Ilya Altman, professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and co-chair of the Russian Holocaust Center, who also wrote the foreword for it. The compilers of the collection are, in addition to Ilya Altman, the head of the archive of the Center, Leonid Terushkin and Irina Brodskaya. The book is based primarily on letters and diaries from the archives of the Holocaust Center. This is the second collection in this series. The first was published in 2007 and significantly expanded the documentary base about the war and the Holocaust. In this project of the Holocaust Center, for the first time, the idea of a large-scale collection (not only in Russia, but in the near and far abroad) of documents of personal origin during the war about all aspects of the life of Jews during this period and their introduction into scientific circulation was realized. The collection begins with an introductory article A. Altman Collective memory of the Great Patriotic War and the Holocaust in the letters and diaries of Soviet Jews, which analyzes the correspondence of Jews during the war on the example of the collection. The article provides a systematization of diaries and letters, as well as a comparative analysis of these groups of sources. Of great interest is also the thematic analysis of the main types of diaries and letters. The fundamental difference between this edition and the first edition, which collected mainly documents from ordinary participants and witnesses of the events, is the wider availability of letters and diaries of famous people. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUMS002085