Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
Introduction -- In public : Jews are turned into pariahs, 1933-1938 -- In private : the daily lives of Jewish women and families, 1933-1938 -- Jewish and "mixed" families -- The daily lives of Jewish children and youth in the "Third Reich" -- The November pogrom and its aftermath -- War and the worsening situation of Jews -- Forced labor and deportations -- Life underground -- Conclusion.
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Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. This deeply moving picture of an oppressed community responding to adversity gives us a new way to address the unrelenting question, Why didn't they leave sooner? It also offers a new look at the problem, What did the Germans know and what did they do?--P. [4] of cover.