The Kiev Killings

Author : G. K. George
Publisher : New Acdemia+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1955835284
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kiev Killings written by G. K. George and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2011-08-10 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two Russian police detectives work hard to solve a daunting murder case in this historical thriller set during the Kiev pogrom of 1881. This is the sequel to To Kill a Tsar. Another thrilling adventure of eccentric Inspector Vasiliev, who this time takes the readers to Kiev, a city gripped in the horror of the 1881 pogroms against the Jews. “In this second, marvelous installment of their adventures, Alfred Rieber takes the remarkable Russian detective duo of Vasiliev and Serov to Kiev, a city gripped in the horror of the 1881 pogroms against the Jews. There they struggle to solve a murder that is shrouded in the fog of ethnic violence, government corruption, terrorist plots of revolutionaries, and the strivings of Polish and Ukrainian nationalists. In glorious, vibrant detail, Rieber brings to life the world of Kiev: from its distinctive neighborhoods to the outlying Jewish shtetls, from the fancy balls of the high officials to the sweaty taverns of smugglers, from the bucolic escapes of city parks to the bustling, hardscrabble world of Russia’s burgeoning industrialization and railway building. This is historical fiction at its best.” —Nicholas Breyfogle, Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University “In The Kiev Killings, Alfred Rieber intermingles multiple subcultures, from ex-convicts embittered by Siberian exile to Jewish radicals avenging pogrom victims to officials eager only for gain and glory. The city of Kiev in 1881, populated by these types and many more, comes alive in this book with remarkable detail and density. Rieber’s skillful plotting keeps us in suspense as we follow Inspector Vasiliev following leads that take him to unexpected corners of a cultural crossroads tense with upheaval.” —Carol Avins, Associate Professor, Department of Germanic, Russian and East European Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University “The Kiev Killings, which deals with the “Pogrom Year” of 1881, is a great thriller, a real page turner written with zest and panache. Its many and diverse characters engage the readers’ interest because they are three-dimensional human beings, trying (some of them, at least) to do the right thing in impossible circumstances. Moreover, the novel is informed by the author’s profound knowledge of the historical context in which the events of 1881 take place—the failed policies of the declining imperial regime, the tragic position of the Jews (here recounted with great empathy and insight), and the conflicting claims of Russians, Jews, and Ukrainians to one of Russia’s greatest Imperial centers in a period of economic growth and bitter internal strife.” —Ezra Mendelsohn, Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry and in Russian and East European Studies, Hebrew University

Author : А Анатолий
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374107610
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Babi Yar written by А Анатолий and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1970 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in censored form in Yunost 1966, under the title 'Babi Yar'"--T.p. verso.

Author : Ernst Klee
Publisher : Konecky Konecky
ISBN 13 : 9781568521336
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "The Good Old Days" written by Ernst Klee and published by Konecky Konecky. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most painfully riveting books of our time. A first hand account of the greatest mass murder in history as told by the active and passive participants in genocide. What is different about this book is that it contains carefully compiled letters, journal entries and voluminous correspondence that prove beyond doubt that more members of the German population than ever before admitted to, knew about the Holocaust while it was happening.

Author : Ippolit Iosifovich Lyutostansky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781675836057
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jews and Ritual Murders of Christian Babies written by Ippolit Iosifovich Lyutostansky and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the universally held and politically correct opinion, Jewish ritual murders are not an "anti-Semitic prejudice" or an "evil blood libel" which originated in the dark Middle Ages, but are quite real and have existed for about 1,000 years. Nor is it true that confessions to such murders were always extorted under torture. The fact is that the reality of Jewish ritual murders, perpetrated by religious fanatics from the sect of the Hasidim, has been repeatedly proven in modern trials using modern rules of evidence, as it happened so many times in the Russian Empire in the 19th and early 20th century, before this country succumbed to Judeo-Bolshevik tyranny in 1917. Quite a rich literature on this subject, dating back to the pre-Bolshevik period, exists in the Russian language. Two very important studies, The Murder of Andrei Yushchinsky by G.G. Zamyslovsky (1917) and A Memorandum on Ritual Murders by V.I. Dal (1844), were recently translated into English by JRBooksOnline and are available through Lulu.com. The present short book was written by I.I. Lyutostansky in 1911 following the ritual murder of Andrei Yushchinsky, a 13-year old boy, in Kiev. Brief information on this and other ritual murder cases - which occurred both in Russia and abroad - is presented here. Ippolit Iosifovich Lyutostansky (1835-1915) was an authoritative expert on the Jewish question, who gained fame due to his two major studies, On the Use of Christian Blood by the Jews and The Talmud and the Jews, which consisted of many volumes and went through numerous editions. He was highly praised for his works and received many commendations from high-ranking persons in Russia, including Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna, a brave woman later murdered by the vindictive Jewish Bolsheviks, together with her husband, Emperor Nicholas II, and all their children. Nicholas II was particularly hated by the Jews for his role in the famous Beilis trial. Mendel Beilis was a Jew accused of murdering Andrei Yushchinsky, a 13-year-old boy, in March 1911 in Kiev. His trial took place in the autumn of 1913 and attracted wide attention both in the Russian Empire and abroad. Eventually, Beilis was acquitted by the jury, but the same verdict also said that the murder was a ritual one and was committed at a Jewish brick factory. Now, it is quite obvious that this trial could not have happened without Nicholas II's will and involvement. Furthermore, the same Tsar, who wanted the evidence about Yushchinsky's murder to be preserved, reportedly commissioned G.G. Zamyslovsky to write the above-mentioned book. In 1918, Nicolas II would die a martyr's death, together with his entire family. Many decades later, they would be canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church, and since then they have been revered as martyrs. After the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they destroyed all the copies of Lyutostansky's books they could lay their hands on, as well as those written by other authors, including Dal and Zamyslovsky. Also, they reportedly hunted down and shot not only those who had read Lyutostansky's books, but even those who had merely heard of them. This brochure will become a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in the Jewish question in general and Jewish ritual murders in particular. It is hoped by the editors that more books by this author will be published in English in the foreseeable future. Carlos Whitlock PorterDecember 2016

Author : Elias Heifetz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine in 1919 written by Elias Heifetz and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arkady Babchenko
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555848354
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Soldier's War written by Arkady Babchenko and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars. In 1995, Arkady Babchenko was an eighteen-year-old law student in Moscow when he was drafted into the Russian army and sent to Chechnya. It was the beginning of a torturous journey from naïve conscript to hardened soldier that took Babchenko from the front lines of the first Chechen War in 1995 to the second in 1999. He fought in major cities and tiny hamlets, from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages. Babchenko takes the raw and mundane realities of war the constant cold, hunger, exhaustion, filth, and terror and twists it into compelling, haunting, and eerily elegant prose. Acclaimed by reviewers around the world, this is a devastating first-person account of war that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. An excerpt of One Soldier’s War was hailed by Tibor Fisher in The Guardian as “right up there with Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and Michael Herr’s Dispatches.” Mark Bowden, bestselling author of Black Hawk Down, hailed it as “hypnotic and terrifying” and the book won Russia’s inaugural Debut Prize, which recognizes authors who write despite, not because of, their life circumstances. “If you haven’t yet learned that war is hell, this memoir by a young Russian recruit in his country’s battle with the breakaway republic of Chechnya, should easily convince you.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Ziama Trubakov
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781501020063
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of Babi Yar written by Ziama Trubakov and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His name was Ziama – a beautiful Jewish name which he had to change to the Russian 'Zakhar' in order to conceal his origins. When all Jews were ordered to appear at a gathering point, he didn't go and persuaded others not to go either. Pretending to be a collaborator for the occupation authorities, he kept on saving lives. He rode his bike to nearby villages to barter goods for his family, at the same time trying to get in touch with partisan units. Like a real 'superhero', he always had a narrow escape until denounced by a traitor. Even then, in the concentration camp, forced to exhume and burn the corpses of those massacred in the first months of the occupation, he didn't think of death – he thought of freedom. And he led others with him - out from the camp, towards life and a happy future – just a day before their scheduled execution. In the night-time streets of Kiev, hiding from patrols, they made their way home, to reunite with their families. A dreamlike story, but a true one.Some say, Ziama never existed and the story is fiction. To contradict this statement and to prove the authenticity of the described events, I found transcripts of interrogations by the KGB of the witnesses and of those guilty of the crimes committed in Babi Yar, Kiev, in 1941-1943. This is the truth the world needs to know. The further away in time we are from the Holocaust, the more denial and the more lies we encounter. So that no Jew should ever have to hide under a Gentile name, so that no Jew should ever have his life threatened for the mere fact that he is a Jew – read and spread Ziama's message throughout the world. And if the worst happens and History repeats itself – let Ziama's heroism be an example to all of us on how to fight back and not allow anything to destroy us.Here at last, after 70 years, is the final truth about Babi Yar.

Author : Patrick Desbois
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0230614515
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Holocaust by Bullets written by Patrick Desbois and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poignant story of how a Catholic priest uncovered the truth behind the murder of one and a half million Ukrainian Jews Father Patrick Desbois documents the daunting task of identifying and examining all the sites where Jews were exterminated by Nazi mobile units in the Ukraine in WWII. Using innovative methodology, interviews, and ballistic evidence, he has determined the location of many mass gravesites with the goal of providing proper burials for the victims of the forgotten Ukrainian Holocaust. Compiling new archival material and many eye-witness accounts, Desbois has put together the first definitive account of one of World War II's bloodiest chapters. Published with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "[T]his modest Roman Catholic priest from Paris, without using much more than his calm voice and Roman collar, has shattered the silence surrounding a largely untold chapter of the Holocaust." --The Chicago Tribune

Author : M a R Unger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781512174984
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Kiev Connection written by M a R Unger and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forensic facial reconstruction artist Matti tries to mend a troubled relationship and learn how highly placed her neighbors are within the Russian mob. Two horrific homicides near Las Vegas teach Matti the hard way that killers don't want victims identified. Worse than that, the female victims are mad as hell they're dead. After Matti completes the two reconstructions, she realizes she'd spoken to both women shortly before they were murdered. Did her questions inadvertently cause these Russian hookers to die- or is something more sinister involved?

Author : Nokhem Shtif
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783747471
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19: Prelude to the Holocaust written by Nokhem Shtif and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1918 and 1921 an estimated 100,000 Jewish people were killed, maimed or tortured in pogroms in Ukraine. Hundreds of Jewish communities were burned to the ground and hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless and destitute, including orphaned children. A number of groups were responsible for these brutal attacks, including the Volunteer Army, a faction of the Russian White Army. The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19: Prelude to the Holocaust is a vivid and horrifying account of the atrocities committed by the Volunteer Army, written by Nokhem Shtif, an eminent Yiddish linguist and social activist who joined the relief efforts on behalf of the pogrom survivors in Kiev. Shtif’s testimony, published in 1923, was born from his encounters there and from the weighty archive of documentation amassed by the relief workers. This was one of the earliest efforts to systematically record human rights atrocities on a mass scale. Originally written in Yiddish and here skillfully translated and introduced by Maurice Wolfthal, The Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-19 brings to light a terrible and historically neglected series of persecutions that foreshadowed the Holocaust by twenty years. It is essential reading for academics and students in the fields of human rights, Jewish studies, Russian and Soviet studies, and Ukraine studies. Maurice Wolfthal has also written the award-winning translation of Bernard Weinstein’s The Jewish Unions in America, also published by Open Book Publishers.