Ilya Ehrenburg (with Vasilii Grosman, Lew Ozerow and Vladimir Lidin). Cartea Neagra.

(HOLOCAUST)

Editura Institulul Roman de documentare, circa

Bucharest

(1946)

Asupra uciderilo miselesti ale evreilor de catre facistii germani in timpul razboiului dela 1941-1945, in regiunile ocupate in Uniunea Sovietica si in lagarele de exterminare de pe teritoriul Poloniei [“Black Book. The Murder of Jews by the German Factions during the 1941-1945 war in the Soviet Union and in the extermination camps in Poland.”] Volume I [All published]. First edition in Rumanian. Translated from the Russian by R. Donici. Eighteen photographic plates at end.

This historic Russian work was compiled in late 1944 by the prolific Soviet author Ilya Ehrenburg. It was a result of the efforts by members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee to document the crimes of the Holocaust. However permission for publication was refused as the Russian government Central Committee deemed that a focus upon war-time Jewish suffering was anti-Soviet. Subsequently copies of Ehrenburg’s manuscript were surreptitiously sent abroad and a portion of it was published in Romania in 1946. See www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Black_Book.