Alexander Trachtenberg and his book „Saved to save“
15 2011 On May 15th, the book by professor Alexander Trachtenberg „Saved to save“ was presented in the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Holocaust Memorial Synagogue on the Poklonnaya Hill. Alexander Trachtenberg is a renowned scholar and one of the leading surgeons in this country and abroad, as well as the leading speacialist in thoracic surgery. Introducing the book, the author talked about his childhood, the deportation of his family from the city Hawtin, hard months spent in the ghettos of Transnistria and the way of surviving. Of the 20,000 deported Jews, only 800 survived Khotina. The author said that there are several memoirs, articles, published books and created films on the Holocaust, but as an eyewitness and ghetto prisoner he thinks that the data is incomplete, as they do not reflect the horror of those terrible years of the inscrutable ways of survival and the lucky ones like himself.
His memoirs not only tell the reader about his experiences but they have also a lot of facts and opinions about the development of national clinical surgery. At the presentation, which was conducted by Ilya Altman, participated also the playwright Alexander Gelman, director of Mosfilm, Alexander Shein, a member of the Scriptwriters Union Tatyana Kalecki and People’s Artist of Russia Grigory Martyniuk."
12. May / Presentation of a new book about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance
12 2011
On 12 May, a new
book about the Jewish
resistance was presented in Moscow (Jack Kagan,
Dov Cohen: The
Holocaust and the resistance of
the fatherland by
Adam Mickiewicz /
Translated from English
into Russian by Tamara Vershitskaya,
2011). Scientists from Jerusalem,
authors and the co-chairman of the Holocaust
Center Ilya Altman
attended the presentation of a son of one of the authors. The book deals with the
memories of Holocaust
survivors and has
been translated into
several languages. The first part of
the book contains the memoirs of Dov Cohen in Israel. In the second part, the
memories of J. Kagan are told. His
memoirs reflect the
history of the ghetto, everyday
life, the resistance and the destruction of the Jews in Novogrudok, Dyatlova,
Korelichi, Slonim, Baranavichy and other places
in western Belarus.
The heart of the
book is a detailed
description of the flight of several
hundred prisoners from the labor
camp in Novogrudok in autumn 1943. In
the region Novogrudok
about 10% of the Jews
survived, making it the largest
number of survivors in Nazi-occupied
Soviet territory. Ilya Altman mentioned
that this publication
is not only of interest for
researchers but also for teachers.
4. May / Conference of the Moscow University on aspects of Russian history
04 2011
On 4 May, the
head of the Archives
of the Holocaust Center
L. Terushkin participated
in a scientific-practical conference of
the Moscow State Institute
"Problems of Russian history" and
spoke at a plenary
session about the Nuremberg trials. The topic of his speech
was "letters, diaries, and testimonies on the
Holocaust by Nazi
war criminals after 1945".
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