Soviet Jews in World War II: experience, perception and interpretation

Nearly seventy years after the Holocaust ended, we continue to be perplexed, horrified, pained, worried and fascinated by it. Unfortunately genocides have continued to this day. However none of them occupy as much of the world's attention as does the Holocaust, for 3 reasons. First the scale is unparalleled; second, its deliberate and industrialized design sets it apart; third, it was designed by a nation considered among the most civilized in the world