Recommended Reading

In this clearly written, cogently argued and researched book, eminent historian Peter Hayes challenged the widely held assertion that the Holocaust is unfathomable and inexplicable.

Divided into five thematic sections, this handbook draws on the work of forty-seven Holocaust scholars.

In 2015, the JFR in conjunction with the University of Nebraska Press and Professor Peter Hayes, published How Was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader. How Was It Possible? is the cornerstone text for the JFR’s national Holocaust teacher education program and is the primary text for our annual Summer Institute for Teachers.

Utilizes testimony, Nazi documentation, and memoirs to expose the ways in which Jewish women became victims of sexual violence during the Holocaust.