New virtual exhibit spotlights ‚forgotten‘ Holocaust history in former Soviet Union – The collection includes a miniature Hebrew bible printed in Warsaw in the late 19th century that was found by a Soviet Jewish officer during the liberation of a concentration camp in Poland in 1945. | JNS.org

(August 25, 2022 / JNS) The Illinois Holocaust Museum has launched a new virtual exhibition about the history of the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union told through the testimonies of Chicago-area Holocaust survivors and their families.
“The history of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union has largely been ignored and forgotten, and in some cases, purposefully erased,” said Leah Rauch, director of education at the Illinois Holocaust Museum. “But more than 2.5 million of the Holocaust’s victims were Soviet Jews. The time is long overdue to address what happened in the German-occupied Soviet territories in our classrooms and online.”