Research Catalog

Title

The Holocaust years : society on trial / edited by Roselle Chartock and Jack Spencer ; in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.

Publication

Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chartock, Roselle
• Spencer, Jack
• B'nai B'rith. Anti-defamation League

Description

295 p. : map; 18 cm.

Summary

A collection of readings that includes eyewitness accounts of the death camps, memoirs of victims and oppressors, documentary material, and related readings.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Note

• Collection of readings developed as a unit of study for ninth graders by the Social Studies Dept. of Monument Mountain Regional High School, Great Barrington, Mass.
• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Auschwitz: a concentration camp / Bernd Naumann -- The death house / William L. Shirer -- The horrors of daily life / Bernd Naumann -- "The Final Solution of the Jewish Question" / Lucy Dawidowicz -- The "Final Solution" in action / testimony -- The Graebe memorandum / testimony -- Dehumanization and starvation / Viktor E. Frankl -- Map of major concentration camps -- Chronology of laws and actions directed against Jews in Nazi Germany, 1933-45 -- We escaped from Hitler's Germany / Catheirne Noren -- "Listen to me!" / Elie Wiesel -- Extermination of the Gypsies / Helen Fein -- Estimates of Jewish losses, 1939-45 -- The prince / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Man is evil and warlike / Thomas Hobbes -- Man is rational / John Locke -- Man is innately aggressive / Robert Ardrey -- Man is a product of his environment / B. F. Skinner -- Christians and Jews in Europe, 1870-1914 / Uriel Tal -- Jewish life in Europe between the two world wars / Judah Pilch -- The Greenies / William Goodykoontz -- What is the difference between a prejudice and a misconception? / William Goodykoontz -- What should I do? / William Goodykoontz -- Hey, white girl! / Susan Gregory -- The meaning of scapegoat / Gordon Allport -- Prejudce / Gordon Allport -- The Jew as scapegoat / Gordon Allport -- On resistance / Abraham Foxman -- The Third Reich in perspective -- Gertrude Noar -- Seven case studies / Edwin Fenton and John Goode -- Herr Damm / Milton Meyer -- Why I joined the Hitler Youth / William Allen -- A town goes Nazi / William Allen -- Rudolf Hoess, Commander of Auschwitz -- Hoess explains hwy he killed the Jews -- Other Gestapo men explain -- Albert Speer speaks -- On the Aryan / Adolf Hitler -- About the Jew / Adolf Hitler -- The Jew in Hitler's mental world / Lucy Dawidowicz -- The Nazi program -- The Lebensborn movement / Richard Grunberger -- Euthanasia / Richard Grunberger -- A doctor for the Nazis remembers / Dr. Miklos Nyiszli -- From a doctor's diary / Hans Hermann Kremer.
• Kim, cabin boy and seaman / Kim Malthe-Bruun -- Bernhard Lichtenberg, prelate -- The world was silent / Judah Pilch -- The righteous Danes / Abraham Foxman -- A Negro Congressman speaks for minority rights / Arthur W. Mitchell -- Thirty-eight witnesses / Martin Gansberg -- Man as aggressor / Anthony Storr -- People are really good at heart / Anne Frank -- The decent and the indecent / Viktor Frankl -- Music out of pain -- Children's writings -- The behavior of the victims -- The Warsaw ghetto -- Resistance in the concentration camps / Abraham Foxman -- Why so little resistance? / Elie Wiesel -- Were Hitler's henchmen mad? / Molly Harrower -- The uprooted / Richard Mayne -- Kibbutz Buchenwald / commentary -- On the Genocide Convention / New Catholic Encyclopedia -- The Nuremberg Trials / Leo Kahn -- The sentences imposed by the International Military Tribunal -- State of Israel Proclamation of Independence -- Dachau: Munich suburb -- A visit to Auschwitz / William Helmreich -- Utopia: the controlled society / Aldous Huxkley -- The all-powerful state / George ORwell -- Babi Yar / Yevgeny Yevtushenko -- If we must die / Claude McKay -- Why there has never been a humane society / Arthur Koestler -- On blind faith / Eric Hoffer -- Sold to Louisiana / Jacob Stroyer -- Slaughter of the innocents / Newsweek -- The Armenians: an example of genocide / Helen Fein -- Instructions to all persons of Japanese ancestry -- Kiyoshi Hirabayashi v. United States / Supreme Court decision -- The greatest trauma of all / Charles Silberman -- Voyages of the damned / The New York Times -- Obedience to authority / Stanley Milgram -- Visa is sweet sorrow to a Soviet couple / David K. Shipler -- Germans and Jews today / Craig R. Whitney -- India limits civil rights / William Borders -- The occurrence is past, the phenomenon remains / Raul Hilberg -- Ominous signs and unspeakable thoughts / Elie Wiesel.

ISBN

053312191X :

LCCN

^^^79101439^//r83

OCLC

• 4882872
• SCSB-13376740

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library