Witness to the Holocaust
By: Michael Berenbaum, [editor].
Contributors: Berenbaum, Michael, 1945-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Sources.; Jews -- Government policy -- Germany -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives.
Description: This book "is an illustrated documentary history of the Nazis' largely successful effort to eradicate the Jews and other 'undesirables' of Europe, told in the words of its victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Drawing on the most current research in the field of Holocaust Studies, and including Michael Berenbaum's insightful commentary, the book covers: The Boycott, The First Regulatory Assault against Jews, Early Efforts at Spiritual Resistance, The Nuremberg Laws, The Conference at Evian, The November Pogroms, The Beginning of Ghettoization, The Judenrat, A Mosaic of Victims, The Einsatzgruppen, Babi Yar, The Call to Arms, Hitler's Plan to Exterminate the Jews, The Killers, Choiceless Choices, The End of a Ghetto, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, What was Known in the West, Why Auschwitz Was Not Bombed, Liberation and Its Aftermath, and the Nuremberg Trials."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.