The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: Volume 3, The Victims and Their Worlds: 1939–1945

Explores the experiences, responses, and fates of Holocaust victims across a wide geographical scope, examining their agency and its limits.

This volume explores the experiences, responses and fates of Holocaust victims across a wide geographical scope, examining their agency and its limits. Chapters address victim responses on communal, familial and individual levels, offering an overview of Holocaust scholarship through victims' voices and highlighting areas for further research.Ordinary victims' voices from the Holocaust are still far less recognized than those of the perpetrators, Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust centers upon victims' perspectives, examining their experiences, responses, and fates. Chapters encompass the ordeals of a range of persecuted groups: Jews, Roma and Sinti, and homosexuals, as well as those with physical and mental challenges, Slavs, and Soviet Prisoners of War. Covering a wide geographical scope, contributors underscore the differences between victim experiences in eastern and western Europe while highlighting national and regional complexities. Through a breadth of primary sources including diaries, letters, memoirs and interviews, readers gain insight into the diverse reactions and behaviors of victims as well as those who helped or hurt them. This volume offers an overview of Holocaust scholarship through victims' voices, while highlighting areas for further research.