The Mystery of the Black Book

In the autumn of 1947, plans were underway in Moscow to release The Black Book, a compilation of eyewitness accounts and investigative essays documenting the systematic killing of approximately 2.7 million Jews in Nazi-occupied Soviet territories. The publication was abruptly halted by the Soviet authorities, and the material was locked away. It was as though the destruction of Soviet Jewry had been erased from public memory. What led Stalin’s regime to suppress this extensive and carefully documented record of the Holocaust within the USSR?