War Against the Jews 1933-1945

"[This is] a major work of synthesis, providing for the first time a full account of the Holocaust not merely as it completed the Nazi vision but as it affected the Jews of Eastern Europe. Drawing upon materials in half a dozen languages and writing with a restraint that seems almost beyond credence, Ms. Dawidowicz, a professor of History at Yeshiva University, has produced a work of high scholarship and profound moral import....In [her] severely controlled narrative there are chapters on the camps as total institutions, the pitiful efforts of the German Jews to maintain a fragment of dignity, and the close relation between German foreign policy and race....Even about the much-despised Judenrate, the Jewish local authorities sometimes set up by Nazi decree and sometimes meant to thwart the oppressors, Mrs. Dawidowicz writes with objectivity and compassion."Dawidowicz, Lucy S. is the author of 'War Against the Jews 1933-1945', published 1986 under ISBN 9780553345322 and ISBN 055334532X.