Daily Life During the Holocaust

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Daily Life During the Holocaust Second Edition

Eve Nussbaum Soumerai, Carol D. Schulz

Book Code: GR5308

ISBN: 0-313-35308-5

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35308-6

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Greenwood Press

Publication: 4/30/2009

List Price: $49.95 (UK Sterling Price: £27.95)

Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 4/30/2009)

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series

Description: The Holocaust--one of the most horrific examples of man's inhumanity to man in recorded history--resulted in the genocide of millions of people, most of them Jews. Readers will explore the daily lives of the victims and their heroic efforts to maintain a normal existence under inhumane conditions. Along with the harrowing details of life under the Nazis, coverage includes accounts of resistance and the role of rescuers. Primary source testimonies from survivors provide powerful insight into the devastating effects of Nazi rule on people's lives. Soumerai, a survivor herself, offers a unique perspective on the events and insight into the persecution of non-Jews: Gypsies, gays, clergy who protested or protected victims, Communists, Jehovah's Witnesses, the mentally ill and handicapped. Readers will explore the effects of pogroms, Jewish ghettoes, Nazi rule, and deportation on everyday tasks like going to school, practicing religion, or eating dinner. Chapters on life in the concentration camps describe the incomprehensible conditions within the camps, including the ways in which inmates managed to survive: avoiding the infirmary, rationing food, utilizing the "market" system to trade for goods and clothing. Four new chapters shed a modern light on the events of the Holocaust, exploring human rights abuses that continue even today, including Holocaust Denials; genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda, and Sudan; and child slavery and human trafficking. The new material allows readers to compare and contrast present and past human rights abuses, exploring what lessons we have learned, if any, from the Holocaust. An expanded bibliography and resource center guides readers toward related web sites, organizations, films and books related to the Holocaust, modern-day slavery and genocide, child soldiers, and related human rights topics. Illustrations, a timeline of events and a glossary of terms are also included, making this a comprehensive resource for student researchers.

Table of Contents:

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
Co-Author's Note
Timeline
Prologue
1. Man's Inhumanity to Man: A Short Historical Background
2. Setting the National Socialist (Nazi) Stage
3. The Total Nazification of Germany
4. The Changing Lives of Jews
5. Prologue to World War II
6. World War II Begins
7. Moving into the Ghettos
8. Life in the Ghettos of Poland
9. Coping with Life in a "Concentration" World
10. Einsatzgruppen in the East
11. The Wannsee Conference: Planning the Final Solution
12. The "Final Solution": The Plan
13. Deportation and the Behavior of Jewish Leadership
14. The Roundups
15. Deportations: Country by Country
16. The Terrifying Journey to the East
17. Auschwitz
18. Life in the Lunatic World of the Concentration Camps
19. The Cover-up
20. The Death Marches
21. Resistance
22. The Lives of the Rescuers and the Rescued
23. Liberation
24. The Nuremberg Trials
25. Aftermath
26. Denying History
27. Genocide Continues: Cambodia, Rawanda, Sudan
28. The Twenty-first Century: Modern Slavery in a Global Economy
29. Child Soldiers in the Modern Army
Epilogue
Appendix: Searching for Answers through Tribute Celebrations
Glossary
Selected Bibliography and Resource Center


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