""A precious record of Jewish life under Nazi rule." -- New York Review of Books"Not only the material for history; it is history itself, agonizingly, triumphantly alive." -- Saturday ReviewWarsaw resident Chaim Kaplan's journal begins on September 1, 1939, the day the Nazi blitzkrieg stunned the world -- the Jews of Poland most of all. It ends in August ..."
"Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp, edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum, is probably the most comprehensive volume on Auschwitz in print. Essays by leading scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States document the history of the camp, the technology and magnitude of the genocide that occurred there, profiles of the inmates and the Nazis who ran the camp (such as Joseph Mengele), the underground resistance that arose, ..."
"The concept of "Righteous Among the Nations" is based on the Talmudic saying, "He who saves one human being is as if he saves an entire world." Over the past five decades, some 20,000 Righteous Among the Nations have been recognized by Yad Vashem. They came from all nationalities, religious denominations, and social groups. Each has a deeply human story that represents the preservation of human values in the midst of absolute moral coll ..."
"Jews have long seen the interwar years as a “golden age” for Polish Jewry and hold it in special reverence because of the community’s heroic struggle against the encroaching darkness of antisemitism. During the years 1918 to 1939, Polish Jews constituted the largest Jewish community in noncommunist Europe and were the leading cultural and political force in the Jewish Diaspora. In this volume distinguished American, West European, Israe ..."
"These 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews date from the 1920s through the closing days of World War II and focus on the experience of eastern Europe. The crystallization of the principles of Nazi anti-Semitism, the policies of the Third Reich toward the Jews, the period of segregation and enclosed ghettos, and the stages through which the 'f ..."
"Israel Gutman. Preface. Introduction xvn Acknowledgments We would like to
thank Martin Gilbert. The decades since the end of World War II have witnessed a
growing awareness throughout the world of the significance of the Holocaust as a
central event in the history of the Jewish people and of Western civilization. The
purpose of this encyclopedia is to put at the disposal of teachers, students, and
all those interested in the subjec ..."
The Union Kommando in Auschwitz The Auschwitz Munition Factory through the Eyes of Its Former Slave Laborers (Studies in the Shoah Series) by Lore Shelley, Dori Laub, IsraelGutman Hardcover, 442 Pages, Published 1996 by Upa ISBN-13: 978-0-7618-0194-8, ISBN: 0-7618-0194-4
"This book describes the "Union" munition factory in Auschwitz through the eyes of 36 former prisoners. Unlike arbitrarily collected testimony, these stories are actual eyewitness accounts of persons who worked in the same factory. The accounts are especially beneficial because they look at many events from different angles. The book sheds light on the women's resistance movement in the camp and recounts how the gun-powder was smuggled t ..."
"These 213 documents on the theory, planning, and execution of, and reaction and resistance to, the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews date from the 1920s through the closing days of World War II and focus on the experience of eastern Europe. The crystallization of the principles of Nazi anti-Semitism, the policies of the Third Reich toward the Jews, the period of segregation and enclosed ghettos, and the stages through which the ‘fi ..."
"In recent years scholars and researchers have turned their attention to the attitudes of ordinary men [and women]A" during the period of the persecution of the Jews in occupied Europe. This comprehensive work addresses the disturbing question of how people reacted when their neighbours were ostracized, humiliated, deported and later murdered. On the basis of new archival material the authors also discuss the attitudes and actions--or l ..."
"One of the most important and sensitive issues in Holocaust research is the topic of rescue attempts during the period of the rise of Nazism and the Hitler period. Articles include the rescue attempts, the missed opportunities, and the deeds of the rescuers, rescued, bystanders, and those who hindered the attempts"
"... Theophil xl DIRECTORY OF CONTRIBUTORS YITZHAK ARAD DAVID
BANKIER Hebrew University of Jerusalem Baum Gruppe Chamberlain, Houston
Stewart Deutscher Vortrupp, Gefolgschaft Deutscher J uden Documentation
Centers: Wiener Library Four-Year Plan Freemasons Fuhrerprinzip Horst Wessel
Song Lebensraum Mischlinge Nazi Party Nuremberg Laws Reichsbund
Judischer Frontsoldaten Weltsch, Robert AVRAHAM BARKAI Tel-Aviv University;
Leo Baeck In ..."
Resistance(Reprint) The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by IsraelGutman, Yisrael Gutman Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 1998 by Mariner Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-395-90130-4, ISBN: 0-395-90130-8
"One of the few survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising, Holocaust scholar Gutman draws on dairies, personal letters, and underground press reports in this compelling, authoratative account of a landmark event in Jewish history. Here, too, is a portrait of the vibrant culture that shaped the young fightersm whose inspired defiance would have far reaching implications for the Jewish people and the State of Isreal, founded exactly fif ..."
Resistance The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by IsraelGutman Published 1995 ISBN-13: 978-0-7366-3107-5, ISBN: 0-7366-3107-0
"A Michel AbITbol Hebrew University of Jerusalem Algeria Libya Morocco Tunisia
Samuel Abrahamsen Brooklyn College Norway IrIT Abramski-BLIgh Yad Vashem
, Jerusalem Husseini, Hajj Amin al- Iraq Libya: Forced-Labor and Internment
Camps Syria and Lebanon Uwe Adam Frankfurt am Main (deceased) Anti-
Jewish Legislation Daluege, Kurt Darre, Richard Walther Frick, Wilhelm Gas
Chambers Lammers, Hans Hcinrich Ley, Robert Jacques Adler Universit ..."