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"...the material presented is written lucidly,
synthesizes the most recent scholarship, and reflects ripened
understanding of the Holocaust...this book will prove informative
and worthwhile."
Choice (print)
Designed for secondary school and college student research, this resource is a readable history and ready-reference guide to the Holocaust based on the most recent scholarship. Topical essays provide an historical overview and analysis of Hitler and the Jews, the Nazi Racial State, Genocide, the Final Solution, and Resistance to the Nazis.
Biographical sketches provide valuable information on the key personalities among both the Nazis and Allies, and the text of key primary documents brings the Nazis' blatant plan for genocide to stark reality. In addition, the online guide provides the user access to:
- Online teacher lesson plans designed for teaching the content of the guide, correlated to the National Center for History in the Schools 1996 standards
- Original video vignettes—a mix of archival and documentary footage on the concentration camps and European Jewry in the 1930s
- Hundreds of historical photographs of the ghettos, extermination camps and people related to the camps, including Lodz, Krakow, Auschwitz, Belzec, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, Majdanek, and Theresienstadt
- Audio collection of the voices of Holocaust survivors
- Audio and video of renowned Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg discussing the evolution of bureaucracy in Nazi Germany, and historian Yehuda Bauer on the Holocaust
- Audio testimony of Adolph Eichmann on Hitler's order to destroy the Jews
- E-texts of historical documents including the Law for the Protection of Hereditary Health, 1933; Nuremberg Laws of 1935; Mit Brennender Sorge (Encyclical of Pope Pius XI on the Church and the German Reich, 1937); the Balfour Declaration; Report from the Central Commission for Investigation for German Crimes in Poland: Extermination Camp Chelmno, 1946 and 1947; Wannsee Conference Minutes, January 20, 1942; Reports and memorandum on the Roosevelt Administration's apparent reluctance to help Europe's Jews; and affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf
- Hyperlinked timeline, maps, and glossary of key terms
More critical praise for the print...
Fischel's overview is not only among the first books of this kind, it also is one that meets the essential tests of accuracy, clarity, and usefulness…The result is a book that perform a valuable service and that does its job of work very well indeed.
Jewish Exponent
Fischel's book serves a useful purpose in trying to familiarize young people with the horrors of the Holocaust.
The Jewish Post and Opinion
[I]t is well written and can be used by students in circulating collections as a general overview of the Holocaust.
ARBA
...useful for its historical importance and universal message.... The several varieties of totalitarianism that dominated portions of the globe have left a wreckage of humanity in their wake. The work by Fischel helps explain why.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies
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