'Bystanders' to the Holocaust: a re-evaluation
Titre'Bystanders' to the Holocaust: a re-evaluation
Auteur
Call number940.5318/0171
N° d'objet05394
Lieu de publicationLondon, England
EditeurFrank Cass
Année de publication
2002
Pagination286p.,index
MatérielLivre
ISBN0714682438
NotesAlso appears as a special issue in 'The Journal of Holocaust Education' Volume 9 Numbers 2 & 3 2000
Description
This book uses new archival sources to examine the record of the 'free world' during the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews, and ask why so little was done to help the Jews. Acclaimed historians and new researchers from around the world reveal how much Britain, the United States, Switzerland and Sweden knew about the fate of the Jews and explains why only a few, exceptional individuals understood the catastrophe that was unfolding