Voices and Views
A History of the Holocaust
Will be published approx. on 30. April 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
687 pages
978-0-9700602-1-1 (ISBN)
Description
Voices & Views presents a historical overview of a dark time in world history, that of the Holocaust. Intended as an introduction to the key historical events and central issues of the time period, Voices & Views presents the unique perspectives of numerous scholars in addition to first person accounts and original speeches and propoganda materials. The title focuses on the sacrifices and virtue of the rescuers, also known as the Righteous, those non-Jewish bystanders who risked their lives and their security to help Jews in need.
Reviews / Votes
Events happen because they are possible. If they are possible once they are possible again. In that sense the Holocaust is not unprecedented, but a warning for the future. - Yehuda BauerMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
173 b/w photographs, 9 illustrations, 8 tables, 6 maps
Dimensions
Height: 263 mm
Width: 209 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
1798 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9700602-1-1 (9780970060211)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Deborah Dwork is the Rose Professor of Holocaust History at Clark University. She is the author of Children with a Star: Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe and co-author with Robert Jan van Pelt of Auschwitz: 1270 to the Present.
Content
Maps and Charts; Preface - Paul Goldberger; Dedication - Rabbi Harold Schulweis; Acknowledgements - Deborah Dwork and Stanlee J. Stahl; Introduction - Deborah Dwork; Chapter I: Jews, Gentiles, and Germans; Christian Anti-Semitism and Secular Anti-Semitism - William Nicholls; Antisemitism - Robert S. Wistrich; Judaism in Music - Richard Wagner; What is German? - Richard Wagner; Chapter II: World War I and the Inter-War Period; A Wilderness Called Peace - Eugen Weber; Germany's Turn to the East - Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt; The Old Order - Eugen Diesel; The Trauma of Military Defeat and Economic Ruin 1919-23 - Klaus P. Fischer; Poland - Ezra Mendelsohn; Jewish Life Between the Wars - Ezra Mendelsohn; Believe, Obey, Fight - Tracy H. Koon; Chapter III: The National Socialist Regime; On the History of the Concentration Camps - Wolfgang Sofsky; Nazi Policy Against the Jews - William Carr; The November Pogrom and Its Aftermath - Marion A. Kaplan; The Third Reich - Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt; Chapter IV: Refugee Policy; Roosevelt's New Deal Humanitarianism - Henry L. Feingold; The Abandonment of the Jews - David S. Wyman; Sealing the Escape Routes - Bernard Wasserstein; Rescue Efforts - Michael R. Marrus; Chapter V: Gentile Life Under German Occupation; The Black Book of Poland - The Polish Ministry of Information; France Under German Occupation - Margaret Collins Weitz; Under State Protection - Leni Yahil; Chapter VI: Jewish Life Under German Occupation; At Home and In Secret - Deborah Dwork; The Jewish Councils - Isaiah Trunk; Scroll of Agony - Chaim A. Kaplan; Behind the Walls - Janina Bauman; Days of Battle - Yisrael Gutman; Chapter VII: The Machinery of Death and the Murderers; Der Untermensch - Reichsfuhrer-SS, SS-Hauptamt; The Einsatzgruppen Reports - Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, eds.; Initiation to Mass Murder: The Jozefow Massacre - Christopher R. Browning; Origins of the Killing Centers - Raul Hilberg; Belzec and Treblinka - Saul Friedlander; The Holocaust at Auschwitz - Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt; Gypsies - (Yehuda Bauer); On the Bottom - (Primo Levi); Chapter VIII: Rescue; Into Hiding - Deborah Dwork; Wallenberg's Last Acts, His Unique Achievement - Per Anger; The Rescue of Jews in the Italian Zone of Occupied Croatia - Daniel Carpi; The Jewish Question - Guenter Lewy; Consenting Elites, Threatened Elites - Saul Friedlander; Help--1940-1944 - Philip P. Hallie; Chapter IX: The Rescuers; Rescue Attempts Out of Lithuania - Yehuda Bauer; From Self-Preservation to Rescue - Nechama Tec; Becoming a Rescuer: Overcoming Social Psychological and Physical Barriers - Nechama Tec; Helpers, Gainers, and Onlookers - Raul Hilberg; Refugees - Miep Gies; Magda Trocme - Carol Rittner and R.S.M. Sondra Myers; Chapter X: After the Holocaust; Jews of the Surviving Remnant - Mark Wyman; The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi; The Netherlands - Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt; On the Place of the Holocaust in History - Yehuda Bauer.