Holocaust, The: The Essential Reference Guide - Softcover

Bartrop, Paul R.

 
9798216469810: Holocaust, The: The Essential Reference Guide

Synopsis

This book provides an indispensable resource for anyone studying the Holocaust. The reference entries are enhanced by documents and other tools that make this volume a vital contribution to Holocaust research. This work provides detailed accounts of the multifaceted attempts by Germany's Nazi regime, together with its collaborators, to annihilate the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. Several introductory essays, along with a rich chronology, reference entries, primary documents, images, and a bibliography provide crucial information that readers will need in order to try to understand the Holocaust while researching that horrible event. This text looks not only at the history of the Holocaust, but also at examples of resistance (through armed violence, attempts at rescue, or the very act of survival itself); literary and cultural expressions that have attempted to deal with the Holocaust; the social and psychological implications of the Holocaust for today; and how historians and others have attempted to do justice to the memory of those killed and seek insight into why the Holocaust happened in the first place.

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About the Authors

Paul R. Bartrop, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, USA and Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author, co-author, and editor of 36 books, including The Routledge History of the First World War (2024), The Routledge History of the Second World War (2022), and (most recently) Flight and Rescue from Norway during the Holocaust (2026).

Eve E. Grimm was formerly a Senior Advisor to the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Research at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, USA. A lawyer with advanced qualifications in law, after a working life in government service as a senior attorney she has written about the German legal profession during the Nazi period and the Holocaust. Having formerly taught in the School of Law at Monash University, Melbourne, she was one of the legal team that provided comment on the State of Victoria's racial vilification legislation and was for many years a member of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission in Australia, during which she prepared numerous briefs relating to antisemitism. Her published work has appeared in the journal Without Prejudice, and she was a key contributor to The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia and Document Collection (2017). In 2022 she co-authored (with Paul R. Bartrop) The Holocaust: The Essential Reference Guide, joining two other books co-authored with Paul Bartrop in 2019: Perpetrating the Holocaust: Leaders, Enablers, and Collaborators and Children of the Holocaust.

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