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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

This section presents a wide spectrum of Jewish sources for the study of the Holocaust. Produced by Jews and Jewish organizations, the diaries, letters, testimonies, art, still and moving images, and other media included in this section highlight Jewish responses to persecution and genocide. These sources encourage students and instructors to pose questions not typically raised in documents left behind by the Holocaust’s perpetrators.

Orenbach, Lutek drawing 1940

Artistic Responses to Persecution
Gender collection image

Gender, Sexuality, and the Holocaust
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
Boder, David interview Tichauer 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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