A history of the Holocaust /
Yehuda Bauer, with the assistance of Nili Keren.
- Revised edition
- New York : Franklin Watts, 2001.
- 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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