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sourced analysis of the trajectory followed by many Jews through Central Asia to Iran on their way to Palestine or back to Europe—along the way making a very persuasive case for a transnational Holocaust history—but provides a compelling explanation for why this history was neglected by those who experienced it and those who came later: among other reasons, because of an undifferentiated story of the Holocaust that left little space for ‘the highly ambiguous role of the Soviet Union as the site where—with critical, if limited, support from American Jewish aid organizations—the great majority of Jewish DPs had survived the war’. This highly engaging book opens up as many, if not more questions than it answers. It delineates a new sub-field in the history of the Holocaust and in other fields besides, and makes for exciting and fresh reading.