Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-415) and index.

1. Who are the Jews?
Christianity and the developing Jewish civilization
Jewish reactions until modern times
Jewish mysticism and Messianism
Jewish social and economic life in the diaspora
2. Liberalism, emancipation, and antisemitism
Social and political developments in Eastern Europe
The ideological and organizational structure of nineteenth century Jewish society
The results of emancipation
Modern antisemitism
Political antisemitism
Jewish reactions
Zionism and Palestine
The Bund
Anti-Zionist and other reactions
3. World War I and its aftermath
The background : 1914-1918
Genocide on the Armenians
The background : 1918-1933
Soviet Jewry
British and French Jewry
Antisemitism in Britain and France
American Jewry
The new Jewish center in the United States
Jewish reactions
4. The Weimar Republic
The Revolutionary era
Social and economic problems
Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party
Nazi antisemitism
5. The evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, 1933-1938
German foreign policy
Nazi antisemitic policy
6. German Jewry in the prewar era, 1933-1938
Jewish emigration
Christianity and the Nazis. 7. Poland, the siege begins
The German invasion
The Jews in prewar Poland
The Jews in occupied Poland
The German plan for Jewish containment
The ghettoes
The Jewish councils, the Judenräte
Four Jewish councils
The Lódz Judenrat
The Vilna (Vilnius) Judenrat
The Warsaw Judenrat
The Minsk Judenrat
8. Life in the ghettoes
Ghettoes in Poland
The will to survive
Religious life
Education and cultural activity
Youth movements
Historical documentation
Ghettoes in the USSR
Kovno
Terezin (Theresienstadt), the "model" ghetto
The limits of unarmed resistance
9. The "final solution"
The Wannsee Conference
Concentration and death camps
Auschwitz
10. West European Jewry, 1940-1944
France
The southern (Vichy) zone
The northern zone
Algerian Jews under Vichy rule
The Italian-occupied zone of France
Belgium
Holland
11. Resistance
Armed resistance
The attitude toward resistance in the ghetto
Other problems of armed resistance
The Warsaw ghetto rebellion
The Bialystock ghetto rebellion
The resistance in Vilna
Resistance in other ghettoes
Partisans in Eastern Europe
Resistance in camps
Resistance in Western Europe. 12. Rescue?
Summary, 1935-1939
Poland and Lithuania, 1939-1941
Jewish-Gentile relations in Eastern Europe
The avenue of the righteous
The rescue of Bulgarian Jews
Rescue operation in Western Europe
France
Denmark
The attitudes of the major powers
The USSR, 1939-1942
The United States, 1939-1942
Britain, 1939-1942
Public information about the Holocaust, 1942-1944
13. The last years of the Holocaust, 1943-1945
Romania
The rescue negotiations
Slovakia
Hungary
The War Refugee Board
Trucks for lives
The Mayer negotiations
The war ends
Was rescue by negotiation possible?
The Holocaust, summing up
What "caused" the Holocaust?
Holocaust and genocide, is there a difference?
Theodicy, where was god? Where was man?
Consequences of the Holocaust
14. Aftermath and revival
Appendix. Himmler's "Reflections on the treatment of peoples of alien races in the East."

The author traces the roots of anti-Semitism that burgeoned through the ages and provides a comprehensive description of how and why the Holocaust occurred. This history is intensified by moving documentation, including passages from diaries left by concentration camp inmates as their only living testimony to the horrors they endured, plus tales of individual heroism amid unparalleled adversity. The revised edition contains all new art -- maps, charts, tables, graphs. All art elements and text contain updated, more accurate statistics. It's easier to read and navigate. Lastly, there are two 8-page inserts (16 pages total) of black-and-white photographs