Returning home after the Holocaust. Jewish-Gentile encounters in the Soviet borderland

Discusses the specific difficulties experienced by Jews in the territories of Bessarabia, Bucovina and Transnistria. Jewish survivors came back to these areas to face an economically disastrous and sometimes personally dangerous situation.The returnees learnt how their neighbours had participated in the despoliation of their property, and in many instances they struggled to get housing and to retrieve the things that were theirs