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 Lódz and 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
