The book by historian Mikhail Ryvkin and journalist Arkady Shulman “Chronicle of terrible days. The Tragedy of the Vitebsk Ghetto" is a documented story about the bloody days of the summer and autumn of 1941, when the Jewish population of Vitebsk, a city that has always occupied a special place in Jewish history, was destroyed by fascists and collaborators. The book was the result of many years of work. It contains unique documents and numerous testimonies...

“By the beginning of the war, 180,000 people lived in Vitebsk, of which more than 37,000 were Jews... In June 1944, when Soviet troops liberated Vitebsk, they were met by survivors townspeople - just over 100 people. There was not a single Jew among them...”