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Witness to the Holocaust

Author: Michael Berenbaum
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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This book "is an illustrated documentary history of the Nazis' largely successful effort to eradicate the Jews and other 'undesirables' of Europe, told in the words of its victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Drawing on the most current research in the field of Holocaust Studies, and including Michael Berenbaum's insightful commentary, the book covers: The Boycott, The First Regulatory Assault against Jews, Early  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Sources
Personal narratives
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Berenbaum
ISBN: 0062701088 9780062701084
OCLC Number: 34691100
Description: xxxiii, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: The Boycott --
The first regulatory assault against Jews --
Early efforts at spiritual resistance --
The Nuremberg laws --
The conference at Evian --
The November pograms: Kristallnacht and its aftermath --
The beginning of ghettoization --
The Judenrat --
A mosaic of victims: non-Jewish victims of Nazism --
The Einsatzgruppen --
Babi Yar --
The call to arms --
Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews --
The killers: a speech, a memoir, and an interview --
Choiceless choices --
The end of a ghetto: deportation from Warsaw --
The Warsaw ghetto uprising --
What was known in the West --
Why Auschwitz was not bombed --
Liberation and its aftermath --
The Nuremberg trials.
Responsibility: Michael Berenbaum, [editor].

Abstract:

This book "is an illustrated documentary history of the Nazis' largely successful effort to eradicate the Jews and other 'undesirables' of Europe, told in the words of its victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Drawing on the most current research in the field of Holocaust Studies, and including Michael Berenbaum's insightful commentary, the book covers: The Boycott, The First Regulatory Assault against Jews, Early Efforts at Spiritual Resistance, The Nuremberg Laws, The Conference at Evian, The November Pogroms, The Beginning of Ghettoization, The Judenrat, A Mosaic of Victims, The Einsatzgruppen, Babi Yar, The Call to Arms, Hitler's Plan to Exterminate the Jews, The Killers, Choiceless Choices, The End of a Ghetto, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, What was Known in the West, Why Auschwitz Was Not Bombed, Liberation and Its Aftermath, and the Nuremberg Trials."

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