Борис Танис. Автобиография, письма, дневники.

С. 82–108.

Tanis K.

The publication includes an autobiography, a diary and letters from a young man from a former Pale of Settlement. Boris Tanis was born in 1923 into a Jewish family in Western Ukraine. After the partition of Poland, he took Soviet citizenship and, as a soldier of the Red Army, went through World War II. Boris Tanis’ diary, written in the wake of his return home to the Rivne region in 1945–1946, reflects the thoughts and feelings of a Soviet soldier who lost his family during the Holocaust. Having enthusiastically adopted the ideals of the Soviet regime, after the end of the war Boris Tanis goes to Central Asia, where he manages to make a career as an official in the construction sector. Published ego-documents may be of interest to historians of the Second World War, researchers of Jewish and Soviet history, and specialists in the history of emotions. Documents are provided with an introduction and comments.

Keywords: Вторая мировая война, холокост, Holocaust, Евреи в Красной Армии, WWII, Polish Jews, Soviet Jews, советские евреи

In book

Архив еврейской истории

Т. 11. , Еврейский музей и центр толерантности, 2020.