The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: Volume 3, The Victims and Their Worlds: 1939-1945

Marion Kaplan is Skirball Professor Emerita of Modern Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of two prize-winning books: The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family and Identity in Imperial Germany (1991)and Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany (1998); and co-editor of a third prize winner with Deborah Dash Moore, Gender and Jewish History, (2011). More recently she published Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945 (2008) and Hitler's Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal (2020). Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research focuses on Polish Jews, the Holocaust, Jewish intelligentsia in east-central Europe, Polish-Jewish relations, and modern Jewish historiography. Previous publications include Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust (2021) and Dokad dalej? Ruch syjonistyczny w Polsce 1944–1950 (2002). Most recently, she co-edited Entanglements of War: Social Networks during the Holocaust (2023) andThe Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory (2024).

‘… the editors have assembled a truly international and intergenerational roster of contributors that reflects the vigor and breadth of the field and the diversity of the people who work in it. One particularly salutary consequence is that numerous chapters make a great deal of research in languages that are not usually accessible to English-speakers available to them … a compendium of multi-faceted and hard-won learning.’ Peter Hayes, H-Soz-Kult

• General Editor's Introduction Mark Roseman; Introduction to Volume III Marion Kaplan and Natalia Aleksiun; 1. The Jewish world under Nazi impact, 1930–1939 David Engel; 2. The Churches and the holocaust Jonathan Huener; 3. Lost in-between: refugee migration during the holocaust Michal Frankl; 4. Jewish forced labor: from coerced segregated deployment to slave labor, 1938–1945 Wolf Gruner; 5. 'To prevent something worse': strategies, constraints, and choices made by the Jewish councils in Western Europe Beate Meyer; 6. Jewish councils and Jewish ghetto police in Eastern Europe Katarzyna Person; 7. Diaries and chronicles Alexandra Garbarini; 8. Jewish experience of segregation and ghettoization Andrea Löw; 9. Religious practice during the holocaust Hava Dreifus; 10. Cultural activity in the holocaust Samuel Kassow; 11. Facing the unfathomable: victims' reactions to the deportations to death camps Dariusz Libionka; 12. Jews in concentration camps, 1933–1945 Kim Wünschmann; 13. Gray zones and sonderkommandos: power and morality in Auschwitz–Birkenau and other national socialist concentration camps Imke Hansen; 14. Hiding and passing as non-Jews in Poland, 1942–1945 Jan Grabowski; 15. Surviving in the Soviet Union Eliyana R. Adler; 16. Uprisings and mass escapes in ghettos and camps David Silberklang; 17. Jews in armed resistance movements and partisan units Daniel Lee and Natalia Aleksiun; 18. Gender and Jewish experience during the holocaust Helene Sinnreich; 19. Sexual exploitation and violence during the holocaust Regina Mühlhäuser; 20. The Jewish family during the holocaust Dalia Ofer; 21. Jewish children's experiences during the holocaust Joanna Beata Michlic; 22. Mixed race, mixed marriage and Jewish Christians Susanna Schrafstetter; 23. Mentally and physically disabled persons as victims of Nazism Paul Weindling; 24. Homosexuals Geoffrey J. Giles; 25. Roma Anton Weiss-Wendt; 26. Slavs and Soviet POWs Waitman Wade Beorn; 27. Help and rescue in Eastern Europe: the case of Poland Anna Bikont; 28. Jewish self-help and rescue in Germany and Nazi-occupied Western Europe, 1941–1945 Beate Kosmala; 29. International responses to the Jewish refugee crisis, 1939–1945 Avinoam Patt; 30. The allies and the holocaust Richard Breitman; Index.