Voices & views : a history of the Holocaust / edited, with introductions, by Deborah Dwork.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dwork, Deborah.

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Causes.

Jews--Persecutions--Germany.

Jews.

Jews--Persecutions.

Germany.

World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.

World War, 1939-1945.

Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvi, 687 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Voices and views

Place of Publication:

New York : Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, [2002]

Summary:

Voices & Views presents a historical overview of a dark time in world history, that of the Holocaust. Intended as an introduction to the key historical events and central issues of the time period, Voices & Views presents the unique perspectives of numerous scholars in addition to first person accounts and original speeches and propoganda materials. The title focuses on the sacrifices and virtue of the rescuers, also known as the Righteous, those non-Jewish bystanders who risked their lives and their security to help Jews in need.

Contents:

Jews, gentiles, and Germans: Christian antisemitism and secular antisemitism / William Nicholls ; Antisemitism / Robert S. Wistrich ; Judaism in music / Richard Wagner ; What is German? / Richard Wagner

World War I and the interwar period: A wilderness called peace / Eugen Weber ; Germany's turn to the east / Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt ; The old order / Eugen Diesel ; The trauma of military defeat and economic ruin, 1919-23 / Klaus P. Fischer ; Poland / Ezra Mendelsohn ; Jewish life between the wars / Ezra Mendelsohn ; Believe, obey, fight / Tracy H. Koon

The National Socialist regime: On the history of the concentration camps / Wolfgang Sofsky ; Nazi policy against the Jews / William Carr ; The November Pogrom and its aftermath / Marion A. Kaplan ; The Third Reich / Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt

Refugee policy: Roosevelt's new deal humanitarianism / Henry L. Feingold ; The abandonment of the Jews / David S. Wyman ; Sealing the escape routes / Bernard Wasserstein ; Rescue efforts / Michael R. Marrus

Gentile life under German occupation: The black book of Poland / The Polish Ministry of Information ; France under German occupation / Margaret Collins Weitz ; Under State protection / Leni Yahil

Jewish life under German occupation: At home and in secret / Debórah Dwork ; The Jewish councils / Isaiah Trunk ; Scroll of agony / Chaim A. Kaplan ; Behind the walls / Janina Bauman ; Days of

battle / Yisrael Gutman

The machinery of death and the murderers: Der Untermensch / Reichsführer-SS, SS-Hauptamt ; The Einsatzgruppen reports / Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, eds. ; Initiation to mass murder: the Józefów Massacre / Christopher R. Browning ; Origins of the killing centers / Raul Hilberg ; Belzec and Treblinka / Saul Friedläner ; The Holocaust at Auschwitz / Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt ; Gypsies / Yehuda Bauer ; On the bottom / Primo Levi

Rescue: Into hiding / Debórah Dwork ; Wallenberg's last acts, his unique achievement / Per Anger ; The rescue of Jews in the Italian zone of occupide Croatia / Daniel Carpi ; The Jewish question / Guenter Lewy ; Consenting elites, threatened elites / Saul Friedländer ; Help, 1940-1944 / Philip P. Hallie

The rescuers: Rescue attempts out of Lithuania / Yehuda Bauer ; From self-preservation to rescue / Nechama Tec ; Becoming a rescuer: Jews of the surviving remnant / Mark Wyman ; The drowned and the saved / Primo Levi ; The Netherlands ; Debórah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt ; On the place of the Holocaust in history / Yehuda Bauer. overcoming social, psychological, and physical barriers / Nechama Tec ; Helpers, gainers, and onlookers / Raul Hilberg ; Refugees / Miep Gies ; Magda Trocmé / Carol Rittner, R.S.M. and Sondra Myers

After the Holocaust.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0970060211

0970060203

OCLC:

51239471