Jewish responses to persecution

A collection of documents embedded in an explanatory text by the authors. The documents are mainly taken from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives; most of them are translated from the German. The documents - which include private letters and excerpts from diaries, periodicals and newspapers, books, public speeches, documents of Jewish organizations, memos, etc. - elucidate the reactions of German Jews and of those whom the Nazi regime classified as "racial Jews" or "non-Aryans" (and, from March 1938, Austrian Jews), as well as of Jews overseas, to the Nazi anti-Jewish policies from 1933 up to the "Kristallnacht" pogrom and its immediate aftermath. The spectrum of Jewish reactions extends from attempts to accommodate to the Nazi regime through emigration from the Reich. Includes some photographs and facsimiles of documents. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ; A collection of documents embedded in an explanatory text by the authors. The documents are taken mainly from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives; most of them are translated from German, Yiddish, Polish, Romanian, French, etc. This volume covers the period from immediately after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom (November-December 1938) to December 1940. It elucidates Jewish reactions throughout Nazi-dominated Europe (including Romania, "independent" Slovakia, Italy, and Vichy France) and overseas to the German occupation of Poland and Western European countries, to the restrictions of the rights of Jews, to the introduction of forced labor, to the ghettoization, and to the first deportations of Jews. The documents include testimonies, memos, private letters, excerpts from diaries, articles, public speeches, documents of Jewish organizations, etc. The Jewish reactions included emigration or flight across borders, appeals to local authorities, attempts at self-organization (both in the framework of the Jewish Councils and other means), requesting aid from Jewish organizations abroad, and attempts to establish a welfare and relief system. Includes some photographs and facsimiles of documents. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ; A collection of documents embedded in the book's text. The documents are taken mainly from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives; most of them are translated from German, Yiddish, Polish, Romanian, Russian, etc. Covers the period from January 1941 to July 1942 (prior to the onset of the deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka). It elucidates Jewish reactions throughout Nazi-dominated Europe (including states allied with the Nazis), in the USSR, in the Land of Israel, and overseas to the German aggression in the Balkans and against the USSR, to the subsequent German occupation, to the deportations from the Reich to the East and from Romania to Transnistria, to the mass murder and ghettoization of Jews in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, and elsewhere, to the deterioration of the situation of Jews in the ghettos, as well as to the plight of Jewish refugees in internment camps in other countries (in Mauritius, Spain, etc.). The documents include testimonies, radio addresses, private letters, excerpts from diaries, articles, documents of Jewish organizations, etc. The Jewish reactions included flight, appeals to local authorities, establishment of support networks (both "legal" and underground), attempts to maintain Jewish rituals in ghettos and camps, attempts to comprehend the meaning of the tragic events, consolation by way of theology, art, and poetry. Includes some photographs and facsimiles of documents. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ; A collection of documents, taken mainly from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives and translated from German, Yiddish, Polish, Romanian, Czech, French, etc. Covers the period from January 1944 to 1946. The Jewish documents included in the collection - letters, diaries, postwar testimonies, legal documents, etc. - deal with the events at the end of World War II: the last deportations to the Nazi camps, the last days of the camps, and the death marches; the liberation of the camps by the Allies; the problem of the Jewish displaced persons (DPs) in postwar Europe; attempts at the restitution of Jewish property; war crimes trials; and the first attempts to commemorate the victims and to collect survivors' testimonies. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)