Many primary sources on the Holocaust speak to the important place that hope played in people's struggles for survival. Rumors of rescue or an approaching defeat of the Nazis could later result in disappointment when liberation failed arrive, but hope for the future also helped to keep people alive in desperate situations.
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the Holocaust"Should I Sacrifice to Live 'Half-American?'"
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"To the Wide Jewish Masses"
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"To the Workers' Masses in Poland"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBetty Straus, "Our Cabin"
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Elvira Kohn
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Peter Feigl
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustFelix Noskowski and Willi Konrad, "A Birthday Epistle for Moritz Henschel"
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGad Beck: "Do You Remember, When"
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Isaak Shmaruk to Sulamif Tsybulnik
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Jakub Birnbaum to Róża Szczegowska
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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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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMemoir of Fryderyk Winnykamień
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNastia Kronenberg, HASAG poem
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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustRebbe Kalonymous Kalman Shapira, Sermon for Chanukah 1941
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSilver Cup Made in a Labor Camp
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSong from Deggendorf DP camp
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustTefillin Owned by Alexander Kuechel
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Robert Ness
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustViolin Hidden in the Łódź Ghetto
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustW. E. B. Du Bois: "The Negro and the Warsaw Ghetto"