Research Studies

Edited by Dan Michman

During the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the focus of research was directed at the actions of the murderers and at resistance. That situation changed gradually during the 1960s and 1970s. The rescue of Jews, a major aspect of Holocaust history, started to attract the attention of scholars. Still, the focus was mostly on governments and organizations. The initiation of Yad Vashem’s recognition program for the Righteous Among the Nations also drew public attention to the acts of individual rescuers in areas under Nazi control. Over the course of the last three decades, important studies have been published that investigated the rescuers and their acts. Yet even today, many aspects of the rescue activities require further research. Moreover, the aspect of Jewish initiatives and individual experiences deserves more attention. Yad Vashem’s eighteenth biannual conference, titled “Hiding, Sheltering and Borrowing Identities as Avenues of Rescue during the Holocaust,” brought together a large number of international scholars to discuss new approaches and the current state of research on the topic. This volume, based on a selection of papers that were presented at the conference, aims to provide an overview of the multi-faceted landscape of academic studies on the rescuers and the rescued.

Paul Sanders

Edited by Avraham Milgram and Robert Rozett

Edited by Shmuel Almog, David Bankier, Daniel Blatman, Dalia Ofer

Editors: Shmuel Almog, David Bankier, Daniel Blatman, Dalia Ofer

Havi Dreifuss (Ben-Sasson)

"As far as Polish‒Jewish relations are concerned, we need to devote at least a few words to the attitude of Jews toward the Poles.… even in their suffering, the Jews remember with deep emotion and gratefulness all the acts of kindness toward them and the helping hand extended to them by each of those Poles.… But, despite this, the insult and humiliation—which shall never be forgotten—no one wishes to remember."
(Anonymous, Warsaw Ghetto, 1942)

Bernd Schmalhausen

Edited by Israel Gutman

Anna Szalai, Rita Horváth, Gábor Balázs

Ruth Bondy

Dan Michman

Kinga Frojimovics

Raz Segal

Editors: Roni Stauber, Aviva Halamish, Esther Webman

Miriam Offer

A last few words to honor you, the Jewish doctors. What canI tell you, my beloved colleagues and companions in misery?  You are a part of all of us. Slavery, hunger, deportation, thosedeath figures in our ghetto were also your legacy. And you byyour work could give the henchman the answer Non omnis moriar, I shall not wholly die. (Dr. Israel Milejkowski, Director, Judenrat Health Department in the Warsaw Ghetto, October 1942)

White Coats in the Ghetto narrates the struggle of the Jews to survive in the Warsaw ghetto while also preserving their humanity during the Holocaust. Based on a vast quantity of official and personal documents, it describes the elaborate medical system that the Jews established in the ghetto to cope with the lethal conditions imposed on them by the Nazis, and the tragic ethical dilemmas that the medical teams confronted under German occupation. 

Yitzhak Arad

Jean Ancel

Shmuel Krakowski

Edited by David Bankier and Israel Gutman

Yechiam Weitz

Livia Rothkirchen

Nachum Bogner

Edited by David Bankier and Dan Michman

Edited by David Bankier

Edited by Dan Michman

David Bankier

Avraham Milgram

Rezső Kasztner | Editors: László Karsai and Judit Molnár

Editors: David Bankier and Dan Michman

Kiril Feferman

Jean Ancel | Edited by Leon Volovici

Chaya Ostrower

Lea Prais

Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Aron Shneyer

Robert Rozett