Stefanie Fischer holds a Ph.D. from Technische Universität Berlin. She is currently a faculty member at the Center for Antisemitism Research at Technische Universität Berlin. Her fields of scholarly research are German-Jewish history and Holocaust Studies. Fischer is the author of Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919-1939: Economic Trust and Antisemitic Violence (2024) and has published numerous articles onGerman-Jewish history and culture. Kim Wünschmann is Director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg. She obtained her Ph.D. from Birkbeck, University of London. Her research centers on German-Jewish history, Holocaust Studies, and legal history. She is the author of Before Auschwitz: Jewish Prisoners in the Prewar Concentration Camps (2015) and coeditor of Living the German Revolution 1918-19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses (2023). Liz Clarke is a professional illustrator based in Cape Town, South Africa. She has contributed to a variety of graphic history publications, including several titles in the Graphic History Series published by Oxford University Press.

Stefanie Fischer and Kim Wünschmann are to be congratulated on writing one of the most creative and usable books on the history of the Holocaust since the appearance of Art Spiegelman's Maus. Based upon impressive historical research, this slender but packed volume represents a new way of approaching the history of the Holocaust and the still looming shadow of that terrible event.

• List of Maps, Tables, and FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the Authors and the Illustrator Part I: The Graphic HistoryChapter 1: OberbrechenChapter 2: Nazi PersecutionChapter 3: War, Holocaust, and RescueChapter 4: Justice?Chapter 5: The Orange BookChapter 6: Epilogue Part II: The SourcesDocument 1: Letter from an Unknown Relative to Herman Stern in Valley City, North Dakota, July 24, 1933Document 2: Letter from Dora and Moses Stern, Oberbrechen, to Herman Stern in Valley City, North Dakota, December 31, 1933Document 3: Letter from Ilse Stern, [New York], to Herman Stern in Valley City, North Dakota, March 15, 1939Document 4: Letter from Herman Stern, Valley City, North Dakota, to James S. Milloy in Washington, DC, January 15, 1941Document 5: Letter from Herman Stern, Valley City, North Dakota, to Ruth Harrison, Office of James S. Milloy in Washington, DC, March 19, 1941Document 6: Letter from Herman Stern, Valley City, North Dakota, to US Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington, DC, August 27, 1941Document 7: Eugen Caspary, Diary Entry, November 16, 1944Document 8: Carl Reifert, Entry in the Oberbrechen School Chronicle Detailing Events in 1945, undated.Document 9: Father Alois Kunz, Statement in the Denazification Case of Former Oberbrechen Mayor Hugo Trost, Oberbrechen, April 29, 1948Document 10: Letter from Franz Pabst, Flörsheim am Main, to the Denazification Board in Limburg, May 22, 1948Document 11: Letter from Kurt Stern, New York, to the Denazification Board in Limburg, July 12, 1948.Document 12: Letter from Albert Schmidt, Oberbrechen, to Herman Stern in Valley City, North Dakota, July 20, 1948Document 13: Minutes of the Public Session of the Appeals Court in Wiesbaden, Reviewing the Decision of the Denazification Board in Limburg, December 13, 1949Document 14: Irene Lenkiewicz, née Lichtenstein, Account of Her Life under Nazi Persecution and in Exile, Composed in Córdoba, Argentina, November 25, 1958Document 15: Letter from Carl Reifert to the Compensation Office in Wiesbaden, May 3, 1960Document 16: Letter from the Compensation Office, Wiesbaden, to Gertrud Marx in Oberbrechen, June 16, 1961Document 17: Letter from Gertrud Marx, Oberbrechen, to the Compensation Office in Wiesbaden, July 1, 1961Document 18: Letter from Mayor Josef Keuler, Oberbrechen, to the Wiesbaden District Administrator, June 26, 1961Document 19: Medical Opinion from Neurology Specialists for Selma Altman, The Hacker Clinic, Beverly Hills, California, March 1966Document 20: Letter from Selma Altman, Los Angeles, to Mayor Josef Kramm in Oberbrechen, November 26, 1973Document 21: Letter from Eugen Caspary, Niederselters, to Herman Stern in Valley City, North Dakota, July 7, 1974Document 22: Letter from Gustave and Gertrude Stern, Seattle, to Eugen Caspary in Niederselters, July 11, 1974Document 23: Letter from Gustave Stern, Seattle, to Mayor Josef Kramm in Oberbrechen, August 1, 1974Document 24: Letter from Gustave Stern, Seattle, to Eugen Caspary, Niederselters, September 28, 1974Document 25: Eugen Caspary, "Jewish Citizens in Oberbrechen, 1711-1942: A Survey," 1975Document 26: Nassauische Landeszeitung, Report on Kurt Lichtenstein's First Postwar Visit to Oberbrechen, April 24, 1978Document 27: Christmas Greetings from Selma Altman, Los Angeles, to Mayor Josef Kramm in Oberbrechen, December 1980Document 28: Provisional Minutes of a Meeting on "Catholic Resistance Against the Hitler Youth and the Repercussions of the National Socialist Seizure of Power in Oberbrechen," July 30, 1984Document 29: Nassauische Neue Presse, Report on Kurt Lichtenstein's Visit to Oberbrechen, November 29, 1986Document 30: Letter from Eugen Caspary, Camberg-Erbach, to Kim Wünschmann in Jerusalem, July 3, 2013 Part III: The Historical Context1. Oberbrechen2. Nazi Persecution3. War, Holocaust, and Rescue4. Justice?5. The "Orange Book," or Local Attempts of Vergangenheitsbewältigung Part IV: The Making of OberbrechenThe Research ProcessReflections on MethodologyUsing the Graphic History Medium Essay QuestionsTimelineBibliographyFamily Trees