"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"
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
Documents on the Holocaust Selected sources on the destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union by Yitzchak Arad, Abraham Margaliot, IsraelGutman 504 Pages, Published 1982 by Ktav Pub. House In Association With YadVashem [And The] Anti Defamation League ISBN-13: 978-0-87068-754-9, ISBN: 0-87068-754-9
"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 ..."
"A two-volume set. Seventy years after the outbreak of World War II, most of the European ghettos have still not been systematically researched. This pioneering two-volume encyclopedia gathers data from historical studies, testimonies, and documents dealing with more than 1,100 ghettos throughout Eastern Europe. This encyclopedia offers detailed entries on the various ghettos into which the Jews of Eastern Europe were confined during the ..."
"The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations contains the personal stories of each of the men and women who risked their own and their families' lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust, divided by countries. Each entry includes descriptions of the original contact; aid extended; dangers and risks faced by rescuers at the time; availability of evidence from the rescued persons; and other relevant data authenticating each unique ..."
"Die Geschichte eines TransportsGebundenes BuchDas Auschwitz-Album ist ein einzigartiges Dokument. Es zeigt aus der Perspektive der Täter einen einzigen Tag eines im Mai 1944 in Auschwitz angekommenen Transports ungarischer Juden.Systematisch fotografiert ein SS-Mann die Menschen und hält alle Stationen dieses Tages von der Ankunft über die Selektion bis hin zum Warten vor den Gaskammern emotionslos fest. Diese Aufnahmen stellt er dann z ..."
"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 col ..."
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 ..."
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 ..."
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 ..."
Resistance(1st Edition) The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by IsraelGutman Hardcover, 277 Pages, Published 1994 by Houghton Mifflin ISBN-13: 978-0-395-60199-0, ISBN: 0-395-60199-1
"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 f ..."
"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 ..."
"It took the Nazis longer to quell the Warsaw ghetto uprising than it had taken them to defeat entire countries. How could the Jews of Warsaw―starved and persecuted, their numbers decimated by mass deportations to concentration camps, with few weapons and no aid from outside the ghetto walls―stand up to the might of the Third Reich? To address this question, the author of The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943 looks beyond the ghetto uprising its ..."
"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, ..."
Fighters Among the Ruins The Story of Jewish Heroism During World War II by IsraelGutman, Yisrael Gutman Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 1988 by Bnai Brith Books ISBN-13: 978-0-910250-14-6, ISBN: 0-910250-14-6