The Complete Black Book of Russian Jewry

"By 1943 Grossman was already one of the best known writer-journalists in the Soviet Union, alongside Ilya Ehrenburg, the principal architect of popular resistance to the Nazis. In the summer of 1943, the Soviet troops began a liberation of previously occupied Soviet territories along a broad swathe of land, particularly in Ukraine. It’s also the area where much of the Shoah by bullet had been conducted, and it was soaked in blood. This was when Grossman began to feel that his imperative was not just to cover the war, but also to cover the Shoah. He wrote a short story called “The Old Teacher,” a fictional account of the murder of the entire Jewish population of a small town in Ukraine or Southern Russia. It was published in 1943. What is amazing is that he wrote it before personally witnessing the aftermath of the Shoah. In 1944 he joined Ilya Ehrenburg as the second editor of The Black Book , a project which was put together under the aegis of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. The full title is The Black Book: The Ruthless Murder of Jews by German-Fascist Invaders Throughout Temporary Occupied Regions of the Soviet Union and in the Death Camps of Poland During the War of 1941-1945 . When Ehrenburg resigned in April 1944, Grossman remained as the editor and he also contributed original materials, but by 1947 the book had been derailed and it was never published in the Soviet Union."