Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I THEORETICAL OVERVIEWS
6. CHAPTER 1 The Jewish Dimension of the Holocaust in Dire Straits? Current Challenges of Interpretation and Scope 17
7. CHAPTER 2 The Holocaust as a Regional History: Explaining the Bloodlands 39
8. Part II NEW APPROACHES TO JEWISH LEADERSHIP
9. CHAPTER 3 An Overwhelming Presence: Reflections on Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski and His Place in Our Understanding of the Łódź Ghetto 55
10. CHAPTER 4 Similarity and Differences: A Comparative Study between the Ghettos in Białystok and Kielce 73
11. Part III DOCUMENTATION, TESTIMONY, AND EXPERIENCE
12. CHAPTER 5 Diaries, Testimonies, and Jewish Histories of the Holocaust 91
13. CHAPTER 6 The Voice of Your Brother’s Blood: Reconstructing Genocide on the Local Level 105
14. CHAPTER 7 “If He Knows to Make a Child…” Memories of Birth and Baby-Killing in Deferred Jewish Testimony Narratives 135
15. CHAPTER 8 “Why Didn’t They Mow Us Down Right Away?” The Death-March Experience in Survivors’ Testimonies and Memoirs 152
16. Part IV RETHINKING SELF-HELP AND RESISTANCE
17. CHAPTER 9 Documenting Catastrophe: The Ringelblum Archive and the Warsaw Ghetto 173
18. CHAPTER 10 Integrating Self-Help into the History of Jewish Survival in Western Europe 193
19. CHAPTER 11 Jewish Communists in France During World War II: Resistance and Identity 209
20. Chapter 12 Freedom and Death: The Jews and the Greek Andartiko 224
21. Part V AFTERMATH Politics, Aesthetics, and Memory
22. CHAPTER 13 Contested Memory: A Story of a Kapo in Auschwitz— History, Memory, and Politics 241
23. CHAPTER 14 Pressure Groups versus the American and British Administrations during and after World War II 250
24. CHAPTER 15 Traveling to Germany and Poland: Toward a Textual Montage of Jewish Emotions after the Holocaust 266
25. Contributors 282
26. Selected Bibliography 286
27. Index 292