"Book Description --ForeWord Magazine "Book of the Year" Bronze Medal winner in History-- "This translation . . . makes available an invaluable resource for English-language readers. . . . The book is handsomely produced and, in addition to 141 original documents (in translation), an extraordinarily detailed index, and period photographs, contains informative essays by translator-editor Shapiro and two renowned Holocaust scholars, ..."
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 Yad Vashem [And The] Anti Defamation League ISBN-13: 978-0-87068-754-9, ISBN: 0-87068-754-9
"This was a secret diary, written in encoded Polish in 1944 when Basia Berman, and her husband Adolf-Abraham Berman, lived on the Aryan side of Warsaw-the part designated by the Nazis as being for Polish Christians only-and led a secret network helping thousands of Jews to hide and survive.
"I would like to describe this state within a state, or rather, a city within a city, this most underground of all underground communities, whose me ..."
"In his comprehensive examination of the Lodz Ghetto, originally published in Yiddish in 1962, historian Isaiah Trunk sought to describe and explain the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans after they invaded Poland in 1939. Lodz had been home to nearly a quarter million Jews. When the Soviet military arrived in January 1945, they found 877 living Jews and the remains of a vast industri ..."
"In the darkest days of World War II, the Nazi German regime reigned supreme over virtually all of Europe. Within these occupied lands, Jews were being rounded up and sent off to extermination camps for execution. Helping them escape was punishable by death. In this dark and seemingly hopeless situation, hundreds of ordinary people risked all to shelter and smuggle Jews to safety. These were generally not organized efforts, simply moral ..."
"Smuggled out of the ghetto and carefully preserved in a kerosene can on a farm outside Warsaw, Chaim Kaplan's diary, originally recorded in beautiful, disciplined Hebrew script, is a detailed eyewitness report of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and a unique account of the destruction of the Jewish communities of Poland. Scroll of Agony begins on September 1, 1939, as the author, a respected educator, describes the Nazi blitzkrieg that stu ..."
"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 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 ..."
"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."
"Una colección exhaustiva de documentos esenciales para los estudiantes y legos interesados en la historia del Holocausto. Estos documentos reflejan tendencias y desarrollos de suma importancia en la ideología nazi y en su política respecto de los judíos; y sobre la actitud y las reacciones de los judíos en los siguientes países: Alemania, Austria, Polonia, los países Bálticos y en la Unión Soviética."