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1 The only book in the series not included in this review is Suzanne Brown-Fleming's Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions: The International Tracing Service Archive and Holocaust Research (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 2016), for which I wrote an endorsement.
2 Alexander B. Rossino, Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas 2003); Klaus-Michael Mallmann and Bogdan Musial (eds), Genesis des Genozids: Polen 1939–1941 (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2004); Jochen Böhler, Auftakt zum Vernichtungskrieg: Die Wehrmacht in Polen 1939 (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 2006). See my discussion in Histories of the Holocaust (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press 2010), 72–7.
3 Hitler quoted in Matthäus, Böhler and Mallmann, ‘Introduction’, in War, Pacification, and Mass Murder, 24; also, with a slightly different translation, in Matthäus and Bajohr, Political Diary of Alfred Rosenberg, 165 (29 September 1939).
4 But note the author’ point that the conflict was not about policy goals; rather, ‘what agitated Rosenberg was the SS leadership's undermining of his own claim to power in the East’ (426).
5 Isaiah Trunk, Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution (New York: Stein and Day 1979), long out of print but a very useful collection of sources. David G. Roskies, The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society 1989) has a section devoted to the Holocaust. For a recent example, see Ruth Levitt (ed.), Pogrom November 1938: Testimonies from ‘Kristallnacht’ (London: Souvenir Press 2015).
6 See, for example, David Cesarani, Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews, 1933–1949 (London: Macmillan 2016). For a similar point, see also (though before the DLD series was published) Saul Friedländer, Nazi Germany and the Jews. Volume I: The Years of Persecution 1933–39 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1997).
7 This is only partly true. See, for example, Raul Hilberg (ed.), Documents of Destruction: Germany and Jewry 1933–1945 (London: W. H. Allen 1972); Lucy S. Dawidowicz (ed.), A Holocaust Reader (New York: Behrman House 1976); Yitzhak Arad, Yisrael Gutman and Abraham Margaliot (eds), Documents on the Holocaust: Selected Sources on the Destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem 1981); J. Noakes and G. Pridham (eds), Nazism 1919–1945. Volume 3: Foreign Policy, War and Racial Extermination (Exeter: Exeter University Press 1988); Steve Hochstadt (ed.), Sources of the Holocaust (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2004); and Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman (eds), The Third Reich Sourcebook (Berkeley: University of California Press 2013), esp. Parts 3 and 10. All of these books contain numerous sources by Jewish victims and, in their titles and different selections of sources, one can trace changing attitudes to where the emphasis should be placed chronologically and geographically in researching the history of the Holocaust. Other local collections also contain victim documents, for example, Randolph L. Braham, The Destruction of Hungarian Jewry: A Documentary Account, 2 vols (New York: Pro Arte for the World Federation of Hungarian Jews 1963); Photini Constantopoulou and Thano Veremis (eds), Documents on the History of the Greek Jews: Records from the Historical Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2nd edn (Athens: Kastaniotis Editions 1999); and Lya Benjamin (ed.), Evreii din România între anii 1940–1944, 4 vols (Bucharest: Hasefer 1993). These randomly chosen examples—books I have to hand—contain a mix of perpetrator and victim sources, as well as others from the press and other outside organizations.
8 Ferenc Laczó, ‘Agency and unpredictability’, Yad Vashem Studies, vol. 44, no. 1, 2016, 247–70 (263).
9 Gábor Kádár and Zoltán Vági, Self-Financing Genocide: The Gold Train, the Becher Case, and the Wealth of Hungarian Jews, trans. from the Hungarian by Enikő Koncz, Jim Tucker and András Kádár (Budapest and New York: Central European University Press 2004).
10 Raz Segal, Genocide in the Carpathians: War, Social Breakdown, and Mass Violence, 1914–1945 (London: Bloomsbury 2016).
11 The speech was delivered at the Royal Albert Hall on 29 October 1942 and parts of it were distributed in Poland (in about 25,000 copies) by the Relief Council for Jews (Żegota). See Lower, The Diary of Samuel Golfard, 91n67.
12 For previous collections, see, for example, Laurel Holliday, Children's Wartime Diaries: Secret Writings from the Holocaust and World War II (London: Piatkus 1995); Maria Hochberg-Mariańska and Noe Grüss (eds), The Children Accuse (London: Vallentine Mitchell 1996); and Henry Grynberg's collage, Children of Zion, trans. from the Polish by Jacqueline Mitchell (Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1997).
13 Lwów is the name used by Golfard for the town that is also known as Lemberg (German) and L’viv (Ukrainian).
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Dan Stone
Dan Stone is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author, most recently, of The Liberation of the Camps: The End and Aftermath of the Holocaust (Yale University Press 2015) and Concentration Camps: A Short History (Oxford University Press 2017). He is currently the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and is working on a project entitled Tracing the Holocaust: The International Tracing Service and European History.