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Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony
Trezise, Thomas
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Witnessing Witnessing explores how we receive and use Holocaust testimony.
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Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe Under Nazi Occupation
Trunk, Isaiah
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Trunk examines the role of the Judenrat, or Jewish Councils, in the ghettos. While Jews were forced to live in ghettos during the Holocaust, Nazis appointed Jews living in these ghettos to carry out Nazi directives against other Jews, to supply forced labor, and eventually to cooperate in the Final Solution.
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In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-192 and the Onset of the Holocaust
Veidlinger, Jeffrey
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A chillingly thorough study of how the Nazi extermination of Jews was foretold in Ukrainian pogroms 20 years earlier.
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Volavkova, Hana (ed.)
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Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin concentration camp, less than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism.
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The Order of the Day
Vuillard, Eric, translated by Mark Polizzotti
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A meditation on Austria’s capitulation to the Nazis. The book won the 2017 Prix Goncourt.
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Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War
Weber, Thomas
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An in-depth study of Adolf Hitler's unit during World War I, the List Regiment. Through the stories of Hitler's fellow soldiers, Weber argues that the story of Hitler's experience during the war was a myth propagated by Hitler himself. In doing so, Weber challenges the belief that the First World War led naturally to Nazism.
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