Books in The Story of The Holocaust series

Voices of the Holocaust contains 34 speeches, diary entries, newspaper articles, poems and more that echo the pain of victims and the fierceness of the Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust. Each entry provides an introduction to the excerpted speech or text, as well as: Things to Remember, 01 What Happened Next| and |Did You Know| sections Definitions of difficult primary source termsSidebars featuring information on the speaker or author and other key facts|PIM|31-MAY-18|01

“I did not become a resistance fighter, a smuggler of Jews, and a defier of Nazis all at once. First steps are always small: I began by hiding food under a fence. Now I was smuggling Jews to the Janowka forest.” Irene Gut Opdyke was a teenager when the German army invaded Poland in 1939. She was forced to work in an ammunition factory, and then a laundry for the army. At the same time, she began helping Jews to escape from the Nazis. ‘Resistance to the Nazis’ shows how Irene Gut Opdyke was just one of many ordinary people who found ways to resist Hitler's armies in Europe, and to save people from the Holocaust. This book explains the different forms of resistance, from the efforts of people to keep their culture alive in the concentration camps, to fighting the German arm by sabotaging supplies and communications. Each book includes: first-hand accounts from people involved in the Holocaust; an in-depth study of a key topic mentioned in the book; detailed timeline to help place important events; and a further reading and sources section.

This book explores the repercussions of Hitler's downfall and the world's horror at the extent of the Nazis' "Final Solution"--the mass murder of nearly six million Jews and so-called "undesirables." This book explains the ways in which the guilty were brought to justice and shows how those who survived have worked to make sure the world never forgets what happened.