German Reich 1938–August 1939

German Reich 1938–August 1939
Author: Susanne Heim
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1222
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110523906

Executive editor: Susanne Heim; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce and Dorothy Mas This volume documents the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich between January 1938 and the end of August 1939. In the months between the Anschluss of Austria and the start of the Second World War, the Nazi leadership plunged Jewish life further into crisis. ‘Aryanization’, bureaucratically organized expulsions, and ultimately the pogrom in November 1938 meant that for more and more Jews, life was untenable. At the same time, it became increasingly difficult to emigrate. In the aftermath of the pogrom of 9 November 1938, Morris Troper from the Jewish aid organization JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) recorded: ‘What is to become of the Jews in the next few weeks is altogether uncertain. Even if the disorders and arrests come to an end, the basis of the existence of German Jewry has been wiped out.’ Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/

German Reich 1933–1937

German Reich 1933–1937
Author: Wolf Gruner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 884
Release: 2019-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110435195

Executive editor: Wolf Gruner; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce and Dorothy Mas This volume documents the persecution of the Jews in the German Reich between 1933 and 1937. The documents illustrate the ways in which the Jews in Germany were thrown out of their jobs and excluded from public institutions and public life, and how the Nuremberg Laws reduced the status of German Jews to second-class citizens and set out to sever the ties between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans. It documents the political calculations and strategy of the Nazi ruling elite in relation to antisemitic measures, and the local outbreaks of violence and terror against the Jewish population. It also illustrates the widespread indifference of non-Jewish Germans. In 1935 the Berlin rabbi Joachim Prinz described how the circumstances for the Jewish population had changed: ‘The Jew’s lot is to be neighbourless. We would not find it all so painful if we did not have the feeling that we once did have neighbours.’ Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/

Western and Northern Europe June 1942–1945

Western and Northern Europe June 1942–1945
Author: Katja Happe
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1416
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110687879

Executive editors: Katja Happe, Barbara Lambauer, and Clemens Maier-Wolthausen, with Maja Peers; English-language edition prepared by: Elizabeth Harvey, Johannes Gamm, Georg Felix Harsch, Dorothy Mas, and Caroline Pearce In summer 1942 the Germans escalated the systematic deportations of Jews from Western and Northern Europe to the extermination camps. In most of the countries under German control, the occupying forces initially focused on arresting foreign and stateless Jews, thereby securing the cooperation of local authorities. However, before long the entire Jewish population was targeted for deportation. This volume documents the parallels and differences in the persecution of Jews in occupied Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France in the period from summer 1942 to liberation; it records the implementation of the systematic deportation and murder of Jews from Western and Northern Europe, and it also records the rescue of more than 5,000 Danish Jews. In letters and diary entries the persecuted Jews describe their attempts to flee, life in hiding, the transit camps, and deportation transports that often took several days. In Westerbork camp in the occupied Netherlands, Bob Cahen, himself an inmate, recorded in his diary the arrival in the camp of 17,000 Jews from across the Netherlands in October 1942: ‘People arrived here herded like livestock. Some were buried beneath their luggage, others without any possessions at all, not even properly dressed. Women in poor health who had been hauled out of bed in thin nightgowns, children in undergarments and barefoot, the elderly, the ill, the infirm – more and more new people came to the camp.’ The sources in the volume show how the perpetrators attempted to dupe their victims regarding the destination of the transports, and how Jewish organizations attempted to alleviate the suffering of the deportees. The documents additionally illustrate how the resistance movement gained momentum during this period. Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/

The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945: German Reich and protectorate, September 1939-September 1941

The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945: German Reich and protectorate, September 1939-September 1941
Author: Andrea Löw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN:

"This source edition on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents in 16 volumes a thematically comprehensive selection of documents on the Holocaust. Volume 1 addresses the persecution of the German Jews between 1933 and 1937, revealing how the disenfranchisement and social isolation of the Jews was driven forward, and which role terror, state calculations, and the indifference of very many Germans played"--

German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939–September 1941

German Reich and Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia September 1939–September 1941
Author: Andrea Löw
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 1194
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110523892

Executive editor: Andrea Löw; English-language edition prepared by: Caroline Pearce, Georg Felix Harsch, and Dorothy Mas This volume chronicles the situation of the Jews in the German Reich and in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia between the start of the Second World War and September 1941. The German authorities used the start of the war on 1 September 1939 as an opportunity to intensify the campaign against the supposed enemies within – primarily the Jews. Thousands of Jews were expelled to Poland and France in initial deportations. Emigration or flight became virtually impossible. In February 1941 a Jewish woman from Vienna feared for her parents: ‘We know now that there is no age limit, everyone is being sent away, little children, the very old, even sick people are taken from the hospital and transported somewhere, into uncertainty, into misery.’ The volume documents the increasing isolation of the German and Czech Jews and the plans and ambitions of their persecutors in the period leading up to the systematic deportations. Learn more about the PMJ on https://pmj-documents.org/

The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933-1945
Author: Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9783110683332

This sixteen-volume series on the persecution and murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany presents a broad selection of contemporary sources recording events and themes from a variety of perspectives. The present volume chronicles the situation of the Jews in Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France from the German invasion in spring 1940 to summer 1942. More than three hundred documents, most published here for the first time in English translation, illustrate how Jews in these countries were excluded from society, stripped of their rights, livelihoods, and property, and ultimately targeted for deportation. They detail daily life under German occupation together with attempts to emigrate and to alleviate the impact of persecution, while German occupiers and local collaborators targeted Jews with increasingly stringent measures and clamped down on any form of resistance. Book jacket.

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933–1945

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933–1945
Author: Saul Friedländer
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2009-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0061971405

Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an abridged edition of Saul Friedländer's definitive Pulitzer Prize-winning two-volume history of the Holocaust: Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939 and The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945. The book's first part, dealing with the National Socialist campaign of oppression, restores the voices of Jews who were engulfed in an increasingly horrifying reality following the Nazi accession to power. Friedländer also provides the accounts of the persecutors themselves—and, perhaps most telling of all, the testimonies of ordinary German citizens who, in general, stood silent and unmoved by the increasing waves of segregation, humiliation, impoverishment, and violence. The second part covers the German extermination policies that resulted in the murder of six million European Jews—an official program that depended upon the cooperation of local authorities and police departments, the passivity of the populations, and the willingness of the victims to submit in desperate hope of surviving long enough to escape the German vise. A monumental, multifaceted study now contained in a single volume, Saul Friedländer's Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1933-1945 is an essential study of a dark and complex history.

Agony in the Pulpit

Agony in the Pulpit
Author: Marc Saperstein
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Total Pages: 1197
Release: 2018-06-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0822983087

Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and 1945--citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and letters--but the sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the ever-growing oppression of European Jews have been largely neglected. Agony in the Pulpit is a response to this neglect, and to the accusations made by respected figures that Jewish leaders remained silent in the wake of catastrophe. The passages from sermons reproduced in this volume--delivered by 135 rabbis in fifteen countries, mainly from the United States and England--provide important evidence of how these rabbis communicated the ever-worsening news to their congregants, especially on important religious occasions when they had peak attendance and peak receptivity. A central theme is how the preachers related the contemporary horrors to ancient examples of persecution. Did they present what was occurring under Hitler as a reenactment of the murderous oppressions by Pharaoh, Amalek, Haman, Ahasuerus, the Crusaders, the Spanish Inquisition, the Russian Pogroms? When did they begin to recognize and articulate from their pulpits an awareness that current events were fundamentally unprecedented? Was the developing cataclysm consistent with traditional beliefs about God's control of what happened on earth? No other book-length study has presented such abundant evidence of rabbis in all streams of Jewish religious life seeking to rouse and inspire their congregants to full awareness of the catastrophic realities that were taking shape in the world beyond their synagogues.

Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe

Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe
Author: Saul Friedlander
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1993-11-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253324832

" --Bulletin of the Arnold and Leora Finkler Institute of the Holocaust ResearchA world-famous scholar analyzes the historiography of the Nazi period, including conflicting interpretations of the Holocaust and the impact of German reunification.