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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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"But Who Are You?"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Family Life" in the Łódź Ghetto
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Food, Money, and Human Life"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Healthy Woman - Healthy Nation"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Is This Unmanly?"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"Sexually Transmitted Disease Is an Obstacle to Marriage"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
"The English Disease"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
"The St. Louis Is Close to Cuba"
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
"What You Inherit"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
“A Jewish Woman in Warsaw from September 1939 to the Present”
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Betty Straus, "Our Cabin"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Brochure for the Lebensborn Program
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
David Boder Interview with Helen Tichauer
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Death Certificate for Fritz Dressel
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Decision in the Case of Franz Josef Seitz
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Deposition of Pesakh Burshteyn
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Adolf Guttentag
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Elisabeth Ornstein
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Irene Hauser
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Diary of Maria Madi
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Michal Kraus
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Moryc Brajtbart
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Peter Feigl
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Saartje Wijnberg
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Diary of Susi Hilsenrath
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Erzsébet Frank, "The Welders"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
False Identity Documents of Mordechai Tenenbaum
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Film of an Amusement Park in Nazi Germany
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Film of Woman and Child with Propaganda Displays
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Forty-two Weddings in the Łódź Ghetto
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Gaston Guez, "Our Martyrs"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
George Kadish, "The Persecuted"
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
German Motherhood Medals
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Greta Fischer, Camp Map
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Horst Rotholz, "Purim Song"
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Interview with Antonina Serdiukova
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter by Marketa Brady from Ravensbrück
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Amalie Malsch to Wilhelm Malsch
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Arthur Werner to Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Boris Gurevich to his Mother and Sister
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from David Alkalaj to Miloje Popadić
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Hilda Dajč to Nada Novak
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Ilse Chotzen to Her In-Laws
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Isaak Shmaruk to Sulamif Tsybulnik
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Letter from Karl Kretschmer to His Family
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Kopel Nachbar to Alfred Weiss and Mollie Levin
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from Sarah Froiman to her Friends and Brother
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Letter from Vilma Grunwald to Kurt Grunwald
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letter from William Dickman to Charlotte Salmon, American Friends Service Committee
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Letter to SS Doctor Gregor Ebner
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Letters from Harry Lerner to His Parents
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Marcus Tennenbaum, Family Home Movies
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Memo on Pregnancies among Forced Laborers
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Memoir of Fryderyk Winnykamień
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Oral History with Niklas Frank
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Oral History with Rita Prigmore
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Oral History with Robert Wagemann
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Oral History with Solomon Fox
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Americans and the Holocaust
Oral History with Werner Ellman
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Petition of Asna Zhurkovska
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Petition of Meir Halle
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Photograph of Romani Women at Bergen-Belsen
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Photograph of Theresia Winterstein and Gabriel Reinhardt
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Portrait of a German Girl in a Handmade Frame
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Portrait of a Jewish Youth with Disabilities Named Eric
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Report on the Rühen Home for Children of Forced Laborers
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Rivke Horvits-Pinkusevits, "Mama, You Live On"
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Shoah Outtake with Gertrude Schneider
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Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule
Tin Pail Made by a Prisoner in a Forced Labor Camp
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
Trial Testimony of Rosa Schnedlitz
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
USC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Michael Kraus
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
USC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Peter Feigl
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Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust
USHMM Interview with Gideon Frieder
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
USHMM Oral History with Dora Goldstein Roth
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Widowhood Release of Golda Leitman Weiss
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Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust
Wooden Pen Made in a French Internment Camp