The Holocaust: Essays and Documents

by Wolfgang Benz, Randolph Braham, Arthur Hertzberg

Overview

This volume is the twenty-sixth in the Holocaust Studies Series sponsored by the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. It contains ten seminal studies the catastrophe that befell the Jews of Europe during the Nazi era. It also reprints two historically crucial documents relating to the so-called Hungarian Gold Train, a freight train that, in 1944, carried stolen or confiscated Jewish valuables from Hungary.

Essays recount the unfolding of the Holocaust in Hungary and the history of the Jews in Europe. They detail the elimination of Jews in Greece, particularly from the large Sephardic community of Salonika, and describe the rescue of Jews in Albania. Nonhistorical essays concern autobiographical narratives in which survivors and their descendents reflect on the return to former shtetls in East Central Europe and the attitudes of victims toward the perpetrators of Holocaust crimes. Taken altogether, this volume formulates a more complete understanding of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780880336574
Publisher:	East European Monographs
Publication date:	02/12/2010
Series:	East European Monograph , #758
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Randolph L. Braham is director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

1. Talks Followed by Breakfast: The Wannsee Conference of January 20, 1942
2. German Jews and National Socialism: Self-Image and Threat
3. Exclusion and Discrimination of the Jews in Germany, 1933–1939
4. Jewish Emigration, 1933–1941
5. Aryanization and the Jewish Star: German Jews Are Totally Stripped of Their Civil Rights, 1939–1941
6. Ghettos in Occupied Eastern Europe: The Beginning of the Final Solution of the Jewish Question
7. From Antisemitism to Genocide: The Genesis of the Final Solution
8. Massacre in the East: Einsatzgruppen and Other Killing, 1941–1942Units in the Occupied Territories
9. The Deportation of the Jews from Germany
10. Theresienstadt
11. The Other Genocide: The Persecution of the Sinti and Roma
12. Industrialized Mass Murder in the Extermination Camps, by 1942–1944

Editorial Reviews

A good, short history of the Holocaust.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung

An example of superb analysis.

Das Sonntagsblatt

By detailing the events that led Jews to be stripped of their rights, resettled in ghettos and deported to the killing centers, Benz's work provides and indisputable record of the Nazi genocide.

Hadassah Magazine

This will be an essay of choice for anyone wishing a sophisticated description of the major aspects of the genocide of the Jews.

Deborah E. Lipstadt

[T]he book pulls no punches, is well written, and is thorough in its presentation.

Canadian Social Studies Book Review - Samuel Totten

A good, short history of the Holocaust.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung