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Daily Life During the Holocaust
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Eve Nussbaum Soumerai, Carol D. Schulz
Book Code: DCDL0202
344 pages, glossary,
GEM Online
Publication: 11/30/1998
Media Type: Database
Trim Size: 6 1/8 X 9 1/4
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Description: The Holocaust was a complex and horrifying experience that affected millions of people in Europe. The nearly 13 years of Nazi rule had an enormous influence on the day-to-day existence of people in every walk of life: Jews and non-Jews, perpetrators and rescuers, collaborators and resisters, officials and ordinary citizens. Nearly all of Europe's Jews were victims. Students, teachers, and interested readers can explore how the daily lives of these victims, despite their heroic efforts to survive and maintain a normal existence, became increasingly untenable and for most eventually ended in death. Along with the often harrowing details of life under the Nazis, emphasis is placed on uplifting accounts of resistance and the role of rescuers. Accounts from survivors whose testimonies have never been
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Timeline
  • Man's Inhumanity to Man: A Short Historical Background
  • Setting the National Socialist (Nazi) Stage
  • The Total Nazification of Germany
  • The Changing Lives of Jews
  • Prologue to World War II
  • World War II Begins
  • Moving into the Ghettos
  • Life in the Ghettos of Poland
  • Coping with Life in a Concentration World
  • Einsatzgruppen in the East
  • The Wannsee Conference
  • Planning the Final Solution
  • The Final Solution: The Plan
  • Deportation and the Behavior of Jewish Leadership
  • The Round-ups
  • Deportations: Country by Country
  • The Terrifying Journey to the East
  • Auschwitz
  • Life in the Lunatic World of the Concentration Camps
  • The Cover-up
  • The Death Marches
  • Resistance
  • The Lives of the Rescuers and the Rescued
  • Liberation
  • The Nuremberg Trials
  • Aftermath
  • Epilogue
  • Index
LC Card Number: 98-5272
LCC Class: D804
Dewey Class: 940
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