The war against the Jews, 1933-1945 / Lucy S. Dawidowicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dawidowicz, Lucy S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Antisemitism--Germany.

Antisemitism.

Germany.

Local Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Physical Description:

xxxx, 466 pages : maps ; 25 cm

Edition:

Tenth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

[Ardmore, Pa.] : Seth Press ; New York : Distributed by Free Press, 1986.

Summary:

Details the origins, growth and implementation of Nazi Germany's plan to annihilate European Jewry and the various responses of individual Jews and organized Jewish communities to the Holocaust in its several stages in ghettos and death camps.

Contents:

The Final Solution. Anti-Semitism in modern Germany. Phase One: Anti-Jewish legislation, 1933-1935. The SS: instrument of the final solution. Foreign policy, race, and war. Phase Two: from internal war to world war. The annihilation camps: kingdom of death. -The Holocaust. Between freedom and ghetto: the Jews in Germany, 1933-1938. Death and life in the East European ghettoes. The official community: from Kehilla to Judenrat. The alternative community. The countercommunity: the political underground. Who shall live, who shall die. Jewish behavior in crisis and extremity.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975. With new introd. and supplementary bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-456) and index.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Nonfiction, Winner, 1976

Local Notes:

Acc.# 200716

Other Format:

Online version: Dawidowicz, Lucy S. War against the Jews, 1933-1945.

ISBN:

0029080304

9780029080306

OCLC:

13361091