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Combining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series
on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully
curated selection of primary sources together with basic background
information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish life during the
Holocaust. Many available for the first time in English
translation, these letters, reports, and testimonies, as well as
photographs and other visual documents, provide an array of
first-hand contemporaneous accounts by victims. With its focus on
highlighting the diversity of Jewish experiences, perceptions and
actions, the book calls into question prevailing perceptions of
Jews as a homogenous, faceless, or passive group and helps
complicate students' understanding of the Holocaust. While no
source reader can comprehensively cover this vast subject, this
volume addresses key aspects of victim experiences in terms of
gender, age, location, chronology, and social and political
background. Selected from vast archival collections by a team of
expert scholars, this book provides a wealth of material for
discussion, reflection, and further study on issues of mass
atrocities in their historical and current manifestations. The
book's cover photograph depicts the 1942 wedding of Salomon
Schrijver and Flora Mendels in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam.
Salomon and Flora Schrijver were deported via Westerbork to Sobibor
where they were murdered on July 9, 1943. USHMMPA (courtesy of
Samuel Schryver).
Combining rich documentation selected from the five-volume series
on Jewish Responses to Persecution, this text combines a carefully
curated selection of primary sources together with basic background
information to illuminate key aspects of Jewish life during the
Holocaust. Many available for the first time in English
translation, these letters, reports, and testimonies, as well as
photographs and other visual documents, provide an array of
first-hand contemporaneous accounts by victims. With its focus on
highlighting the diversity of Jewish experiences, perceptions and
actions, the book calls into question prevailing perceptions of
Jews as a homogenous, faceless, or passive group and helps
complicate students' understanding of the Holocaust. While no
source reader can comprehensively cover this vast subject, this
volume addresses key aspects of victim experiences in terms of
gender, age, location, chronology, and social and political
background. Selected from vast archival collections by a team of
expert scholars, this book provides a wealth of material for
discussion, reflection, and further study on issues of mass
atrocities in their historical and current manifestations. The
book's cover photograph depicts the 1942 wedding of Salomon
Schrijver and Flora Mendels in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam.
Salomon and Flora Schrijver were deported via Westerbork to Sobibor
where they were murdered on July 9, 1943. USHMMPA (courtesy of
Samuel Schryver).
With its unique combination of primary sources and historical
narrative, this volume provides an important new perspective on
Holocaust history. Covering the peak years of the Nazi Final
Solution, it traces the Jewish struggle for survival, which became
increasingly urgent in this period, including armed resistance and
organized escape attempts. Shedding lighton personal and public
lives of Jews, the book provides compelling insights into a wide
range of Jewish experiences during the Holocaust. Jewish
individuals and communities suffered through this devastating
period and reflected on the Holocaust differently, depending on
their nationality, personal and communal histories and traditions,
political beliefs, economic situation, and other circumstances.The
rich spectrum of primary source material collected, including
letters, diary entries, photographs, transcripts of speeches and
radio addresses, newspaper articles, drawings, and official
government and institutional memos and reports, makes this volume
an essential research tool and curriculum companion."
Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1941-1942 is the third volume in a
five-volume set published in association with the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum that offers a new perspective on
Holocaust history. Incorporating historical documents and
accessible narrative, this volume sheds light on the personal and
public lives of Jews during a period when Hitler's triumph in
Europe seemed assured, and the mass murder of millions had begun in
earnest. The primary source material presented here, including
letters, diary entries, photographs, transcripts of speeches,
newspaper articles, and official memos and reports, makes this
volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion.
Jewish Responses to Persecution: Volume II, 1938-1940 is the second
volume of the five-volume set within the series "Documenting Life
and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context." This volume brings
together in an accessible historical narrative a broad range of
documents-including diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles,
reports, Jewish identity cards, and personal photographs-from Jews
in Nazi-dominated Europe and beyond Europe's borders. The volume
skillfully illuminates the daily lives of a diverse range of Jews
who suffered under Nazism, their coping strategies, and their
efforts to assess the implications for the present and future of
the persecution they faced during this period. Volume II begins
with Kristallnacht in 1938 and continues through the Jewish flight
out of Germany, the onset of World War II, the forced relocation of
the Jews of Europe to the East, and the formation of Jewish
ghettos, particularly in Poland. The twelve chapters, divided into
four parts, track the trajectory of German expansion and
anti-Jewish policies chronologically, attesting to a clear
progression of persecution over time and space. At the same time,
they reflect the vast differences in the responses of Jewish
communities, groups, and individuals within and beyond the Germans'
grasp, differences that resulted both from the unevenness of the
Reich's policy toward Jews as well as the varied backgrounds,
traditions, expectations, and life histories of Jews affected by
German policy. This volume raises essential questions, such as:
What was the spectrum of Jewish perceptions and actions under Nazi
domination? How did Jews affected directly, or others standing on
the outside, view the situation? In what ways were Jews able to
influence their own fate under persecution? What role did Jewish
tradition play in how the present and future were interpreted? The
answers inherent in the documents are often varied or inconclusive;
nonetheless these sources add considerably to our understanding of
the Holocaust.
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