Holocaust

by Dwork, Deborah; Van Pelt, Robert Jan

• ISBN13: 9780393051889
• ISBN10: 0393051889
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: W W NORTON & CO INC

Summary

Unrivaled in reach and scope, this volume illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. The book uses oral histories, archival documents, letters, diaries, 75 illustrations and 16 maps.

Author Biography

The American-born Deborah Dwork and the Dutch-born Robert Jan Van Pelt met in London in 1981. Dwork is an internationally renowned social historian of the Holocaust, whose classic Children With A Star gave voice to the silenced youngsters caught in the net of Nazism. She is the founding director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Rose Professor of Holocaust History, at Clark University. Van Pelt is professor of cultural history in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo. He acted as an expert witness to defend history against Holocaust-denier David Irving. His definitive book, The Case for Auschwitz, presents the courtroom drama of his testimony -- which served to win the case and defeat Irving

Table of Contents

List of Maps	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction Death's Great Carnival	xvii
Jews, Gentiles, and Germans	3	(26)
The Great War and Its Terrible Outcome	29	(34)
National Socialist Promise and Practice	63	(19)
The Third Reich	82	(21)
Refugees	103	(30)
Gentile Life Under German Occupation	133	(33)
The Assault of Total War	166	(36)
Jewish Life Under German Occupation	202	(37)
In the Shadow of Death	239	(20)
Toward the ``Final Solution''	259	(26)
Holocaust	285	(31)
From Whence Would Help Come?	316	(21)
Rescue	337	(19)
The Concentration Camp World	356	(19)
Epilogue	375	(12)
Table of Equivalent Ranks between the SS and the U.S. Army	387	(2)
Notes	389	(40)
Index	429