Traditional family roles were often challenged or inverted by Nazi policies, World War II, and the Holocaust. Although family relationships often became strained or severed, family life was an important source of comfort and support to many people during the Holocaust.
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"But Who Are You?"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Family Life" in the Łódź Ghetto
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Food, Money, and Human Life"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Healthy Woman - Healthy Nation"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Is This Unmanly?"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"Sexually Transmitted Disease Is an Obstacle to Marriage"
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust"The English Disease"
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"The St. Louis Is Close to Cuba"
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule"What You Inherit"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust“A Jewish Woman in Warsaw from September 1939 to the Present”
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBetty Straus, "Our Cabin"
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustBrochure for the Lebensborn Program
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDavid Boder Interview with Helen Tichauer
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleDeath Certificate for Fritz Dressel
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustDecision in the Case of Franz Josef Seitz
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDeposition of Pesakh Burshteyn
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Adolf Guttentag
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Elisabeth Ornstein
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Irene Hauser
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustDiary of Maria Madi
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Michal Kraus
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Moryc Brajtbart
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Peter Feigl
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Saartje Wijnberg
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Susi Hilsenrath
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustErzsébet Frank, "The Welders"
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFalse Identity Documents of Mordechai Tenenbaum
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustFilm of an Amusement Park in Nazi Germany
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleFilm of Woman and Child with Propaganda Displays
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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustForty-two Weddings in the Łódź Ghetto
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGaston Guez, "Our Martyrs"
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGeorge Kadish, "The Persecuted"
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleGerman Motherhood Medals
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGreta Fischer, Camp Map
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustHorst Rotholz, "Purim Song"
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustInterview with Antonina Serdiukova
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter by Marketa Brady from Ravensbrück
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Amalie Malsch to Wilhelm Malsch
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Arthur Werner to Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Boris Gurevich to his Mother and Sister
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The Holocaust in Yugoslavia
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from David Alkalaj to Miloje Popadić
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Hilda Dajč to Nada Novak
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Ilse Chotzen to Her In-Laws
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Isaak Shmaruk to Sulamif Tsybulnik
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLetter from Karl Kretschmer to His Family
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Kopel Nachbar to Alfred Weiss and Mollie Levin
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Sarah Froiman to her Friends and Brother
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustLetter from Vilma Grunwald to Kurt Grunwald
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Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from William Dickman to Charlotte Salmon, American Friends Service Committee
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleLetter to SS Doctor Gregor Ebner
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetters from Harry Lerner to His Parents
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMarcus Tennenbaum, Family Home Movies
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustMemo on Pregnancies among Forced Laborers
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Soviet POWs in German Captivity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleMemoir of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMemoir of Fryderyk Winnykamień
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Niklas Frank
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleOral History with Rita Prigmore
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleOral History with Robert Wagemann
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustOral History with Solomon Fox
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Nazi Ideals and American Society
Americans and the HolocaustOral History with Werner Ellman
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPetition of Asna Zhurkovska
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Jewish Community Documents
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPetition of Meir Halle
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Romani Women at Bergen-Belsen
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Theresia Winterstein and Gabriel Reinhardt
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPortrait of a German Girl in a Handmade Frame
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustPortrait of a Jewish Youth with Disabilities Named Eric
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustReport on the Rühen Home for Children of Forced Laborers
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustRivke Horvits-Pinkusevits, "Mama, You Live On"
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustShoah Outtake with Gertrude Schneider
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Concentration Camp Prisoners
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleTin Pail Made by a Prisoner in a Forced Labor Camp
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustTrial Testimony of Rosa Schnedlitz
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Michael Kraus
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Post-Holocaust Testimony
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Peter Feigl
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Family Life During the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustUSHMM Interview with Gideon Frieder
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSHMM Oral History with Dora Goldstein Roth
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWidowhood Release of Golda Leitman Weiss
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustWooden Pen Made in a French Internment Camp