Dr. Gideon Greif

The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust in Poland

Editor-in-Chief: Israel GutmanYad Vashem, 2005Two volumes, 1018 pages This encyclopedia is a project that documents and honors the noble actions of more than 20,000 non-Jews throughout Europe who endangered themselves in order to save Jews during the Holocaust and who have been granted the title of Righteous Among the Nations from Yad Vashem. This review covers the new volume on Poland and was edited by Sara Bender and Shmuel Krakowski. Sara Bender teaches in the Department of Jewish History at... Read more

The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations – Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust

Editor-in-Chief: Israel GutmanYad Vashem, 2003 through 2007Eight volumes to date "Even in the darkest period of the Nazi occupation, a few lights still flickered in the shape of the Righteous Among the Nations. They represent the best of humankind, brotherhood, justice, and tolerance... In Jerusalem, Yad Vashem commemorates those who risked their lives, who regarded nothing but the dictates of their own heart and conscience, and who saved Jews."–Jacques Chirac, President of the Republic of... Read more

The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews - Michael Good

The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved JewsMichael GoodFordham University Press, 2005272 pages This is the story of a Major in the German army who managed a workshop repairing military vehicles located in Vilna (today: Vilnius, Lithuania). Hundreds of Jews from the ghetto were employed in this workshop, thus saving them from deportation. Alongside skilled vehicle repairmen were many who were not, yet they were still allowed to reside in special barracks outside the ghetto, together... Read more

Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List - David M. Crowe

Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind The ListDavid M. CroweWestview Press, 2004766 pages This book describes Schindler's actions as a rescuer of Jews in Cracow and Brinnlitz, and Schindler's life before the Second World War. In 1938, Schindler was stationed in Czechoslovakia as an agent for the German military intelligence gathering information prior to the planned German invasion. Schindler was arrested by the Czech counter-intelligence... Read more

Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and The Holocaust - Nechama Tec

Resilience and Courage: Women, Men, and The HolocaustNechama TecYale University Press, 2003438 pages Did Jewish men and women experience the Holocaust in different ways? Did female Jewish prisoners suffer more than their male counterparts? These questions have not received adequate scholarly attention over the last thirty or forty years. However, Holocaust researchers have become increasingly involved in answering them, and they now hold great interest among the academies and the general... Read more

Remembering: Voices of the Holocaust  - Lyn Smith

Remembering: Voices of the HolocaustLyn SmithCarroll and Graf, 2006350 pages Lyn Smith has been involved with the creation of the Holocaust Sound Archive at the Imperial War Museum, and has interviewed Holocaust survivors for over twenty-five years. The voices collected in this volume provide a unique insight into the complex human reality behind the abstract statistics of extermination. Susan Sinclair describes the terror and distress her parents suffered when, during the... Read more

Nazi Europe and the Final Solution - David Bankier and Israel Gutman (Eds.)

Nazi Europe and the Final SolutionEdited by David Bankier and Israel GutmanYad Vashem, 2003572 pages International conferences are usually accompanied by a book that is comprised of the papers that were given during the proceedings, together with additional scientific commentary and literature. The volume we have here originated with a conference that took place in Warsaw in 1999, under the initiative of Yad Vashem, the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute, and the Institute of Sociological... Read more

Eine Lebensreise durch Konzentrationslager (A Journey of Life through a Concentration Camp) - Dagmar Ostermann

Eine Lebensreise durch KonzentrationslagerDagmar OstermannEdited by Martin KristVerlag Turia & Kant, 2005222 pages The appearance of every new biography connected with Auschwitz is of huge importance for our ability to understand this extermination center which has become a synonym for the Shoah. Holocaust survivors' memoirs enable those born after the war to identify with the innocent victims of Auschwitz and to gain a deeper insight into the events. The story of Dagmar Ostermann is unique... Read more

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the Holocaust - Livia Rothkirchen

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: Facing the HolocaustLivia RothkirchenUniversity of Nebraska Press and Yad Vashem, 2005447 pages On March 16, 1939, Germany annexed the Czech part of Czechoslovakia. The Protectorate under the control of the Germans until May, 1945, became known as Bohemia and Moravia. Konstantin von Neurath was appointed as the Reich Protector, all major government positions were filled by officials of the Reich, and Jews living in these areas were now under Hitler's rule. On... Read more

Flares of Memory: Survivors Remember – Stories of Childhood during the Holocaust - Anita Brostoff (Ed.)

Flares of Memory: Survivors Remember – Stories of Childhood during the HolocaustAnita Brostoff (ed.) with Sheila ChamovitzOxford University Press, 2001344 pages This compendium of testimony, written by survivors, is a product of memory-writing workshops conducted by editors Brostoff and Chamovitz. The book covers many aspects of Holocaust research: Jewish life before the Holocaust, the destruction of the family unit, daily dangers, hope and despair, humiliation, poverty, hiding, hunger, and... Read more

Im Jenseits der Menschlichkeit: Ein Gerichtsmediziner in Auchswitz (Beyond Humanity: A Forensic Doctor in Auschwitz)

Miklos NyiszliSecond edition edited by Andreas Kilian and Friedrich HerberKarl Dietz Verlag, 2005207 pages The publication of the autobiography of Miklos Nyiszli is an important event for historical research on Auschwitz in general and especially in the field of research on the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Nyiszli's memoirs were the first publication on the unknown subject of the Sonderkommando and shed new light on this subject when it was first published in March, 1946. The... Read more

Auschwitz-Prozess 4 ks 2/63

Auschwitz-Prozess 4 ks 2/63Edited by Irmtrud Wojak and the Fritz Bauer Institut StaffFritz Bauer Institut, 2005872 pages This is one of the heaviest books (in terms of sheer weight) on the Holocaust that has appeared in the last decade. Yet any effort invested in reading it (and carrying it) is well worthwhile. This volume, published concurrently with the ongoing historical exhibition in German cities marking 40 years since the Frankfurt Trials (1963-1965), is a treasure trove of information on... Read more