The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands
Mihai I Poliec The Holocaust in the Romanian Borderlands. The Arc of Civilian Complicity (Routledge, 2019). Description This volume examines the changing role which ordinary members of society played in the state-sponsored persecution of the Jews in Bukovina and Bessarabia, both during the summer of 1941, when Romania joined the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and beyond. It establishes different patterns of civilian complicity and...
Holocaust Studies
Steven T. Katz Holocaust Studies. Critical Reflections (Routledge, 2019). The great majority of Holocaust scholarship concentrates heavily, if not almost completely, on the Final Solution from the German side. The distinctive feature of this book, both individually and as a collection, is its concentration on the Holocaust from a Judeo-centric point of view. The present essays make a unique contribution by exploring issues such as:...
July 1944. Deportation of the Jews of Budapest Foiled
Géza Jeszenszky July 1944. Deportation of the Jews of Budapest Foiled (Saint Helena, CA: Helena History Press, 2018). ISBN: 978-1-943596-06-5 cloth $50.00 / €42.00 / £37.00 With the Nazi occupation of Hungary on 19 March 1944, the deportation of 800,000 Hungarian Jews to the German-run concentration camps commenced. By the end of June, with the supervision of Eichmann, the authorities of the puppet government of Hungary transported...