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Feder, Sami, photo of Performance of Azoy hot es zikh ongehoybn (This is How it Began), Kazet Theater 1947

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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

The firsthand accounts of Jews who faced genocide under Nazism pose important questions about the victims’ experiences. How did Jews understand rapidly escalating efforts to persecute and murder them? What choices remained open to them, and how did they respond? The sources in this section reveal the various ways that Jewish victims interpreted and reacted to the Holocaust.

Orenbach, Lutek drawing 1940

Artistic Responses to Persecution
Gender collection image

Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Pik, Aron Diary 1941

Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Council, Będzin, report on Jewish police 1941

Jewish Community Documents
Fischer, Greta map 1945

Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
New refugees line up outside the Jewish Refugee Aid Committee of Antwerp

Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Shapira Chanukah Sermon

Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Uniform jacket worn by William Luksenburg while imprisoned in forced labor camps.

Objects of Memory
Sutzkever, Avraham Testimony 1946

Post-Holocaust Testimony
Witnesses for the Prosecution at the Krakow Auschwitz Trial

Postwar Justice
Benjamin Gasul Warsaw Ghetto still, 1939

The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Kon, Hugo, Jewish community of Zagreb letter 1941

The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Najmark, David letter 1941

Wartime Correspondence
Fifty thousand pesos already collected for the war victims, Di shtime/La Voz Israelita de Mexico, newspaper article 1940

Wartime Jewish Press

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