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Daily life during the Holocaust /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soumerai, Eve Nussbaum
Other Authors: Schulz, Carol D., 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series.
Subjects:
Jews > Persecutions > Europe > History > 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Personal narratives.
Table of Contents:
  • 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 roundups
  • 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
  • Denying history
  • Genocide continues : Cambodia, Rawanda, Sudan
  • The twenty-first century : modern slavery in a global economy
  • Child soldiers in the modern army
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Searching for answers through tribute celebrations
  • Glossary.