Jürgen Matthäus is the director of the Applied Research Division at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Emil Kerenji is an applied research scholar at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.Jan Lambertz is a historian and served on the research team of the Independent Historians Commission on the Role of the German Foreign Office during National Socialism and after 1945. Leah Wolfson is a senior program officer and applied research scholar at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Volume Introduction: From Persecution to Annihilation
Part I: Jews and the Expansion of the German Empire: January to June 1941
Chapter 1: Facing Increased Pressure
Chapter 2: Struggling in the Lódzand Warsaw Ghettos
Chapter 3: Confronting New Challenges
Part II: Escalating Violence: June 1941 to July 1942
Chapter 4: Mass Murder in the Occupied Soviet Union and Deportations to
"the East"
Chapter 5: Widening Circles of Persecution
Chapter 6: In the Grip of Germany's Allies
Part III: Beyond Compliance and Resistance: Interactions after June1941
Chapter 7: Elites and Ordinary Jews
Chapter 8: Support Networks
Chapter 9: Deference, Evasion, or Revolt?
Part IV: Glimpsing the Abyss: Patterns and Perceptions
Chapter 10: The Role of Religion
Chapter 11: Limits of Language
Chapter 12: Making Sense of the Unthinkable
List of Documents
Bibliography
Glossary
Chronology
