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This book tells the story of Jewish survivors who pioneered Holocaust research in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

Nazi Terror tackles a central aspect of the Nazi dictatorship — terror. The Nazis did not rule by terror, and terror rarely touched the lives of most ordinary Germans. The terror apparatus of Nazi Germany employed a selective terror that concentrated almost exclusively on Jews and other specifically targeted enemies of the Nazi regime.

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist 2023.

Drawing on the memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men, Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany trying to control their everyday lives in a world that was becoming more and more unbalanced.

Kaplan explores the lives of Jewish refugees living in the Dominican Republic during World War II.

Tells the story of Polish historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who established a secret organization called the Oyneg Shabes to record the experiences of the Warsaw ghetto's inhabitants. Prior to the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943, the Oyneg Shabes buried documents from their archive in milk cans and tin boxes.