"Moving first-hand accounts of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust are supported by photographs, ritual objects, and art produced clandestinely by Jews in ghettos and camps. Several entries are from well-known resistance figures such as Abba Kovner, the first to raise a cry for armed Jewish resistance; Rabbi Leo Baeck, who spearheaded attempts to save German Jewry; and Dr. Janusz Korczak, who protected 200 orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto ..."
Memory and Legacy The Shoah Narrative of the Illinois Holocaust Museum by Michael Berenbaum, YitzchakMais Hardcover, 239 Pages, Published 2008 by Illinois Holocaust Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-9816334-0-4, ISBN: 0-9816334-0-4
"Richly illustrated and amply documented, Memories and Legacy is a compelling presentation of the epoch-making events of the Holocaust that will intrigue and inform students and seasoned readers alike. Beginning before the rise of Nazism, the narrative progresses through Kristallnacht and ghettoization, through mass executions and the Final Solution, and finally to liberation and the re-creation of shattered lives.
Particular attention ..."
"Thirty-six historical artifacts from the Museum of Jewish Heritage and their remarkable stories--ranging from a child's Torah scroll and a false passport to a dress worn at the time of the liberation of Auschwitz--provide a poignant, personal perspective on the Holocaust and the survival of the human spirit, even under the harshest conditions. 15,000 first printing."
"A textbook style approach to the events of the Holocaust beginning with the major events occuring in Europe between the two world wars. examines the difference between traditional anti-Semitism and racial anti-Semitism."