This important collection of eyewitness accounts of Nazi crimes in occupied Soviet territories (Russia, The Ukraine, Byelorussia, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) was compiled during the war by Ehrenburg, a correspondent for the Red Army newspaper, and Grossman, a novelist. It was suppressed by the Soviet government because it brought too much attention to Jews and to Soviet antisemitism. In 1946 an abridged edition of the manuscript, combined with some additional material, was published in the United States. This edition is based on a more complete version smuggled out of the Soviet Union in the 1960s.