Yad Vashem Publications

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Edited by David Silberklang

Edited by David Silberklang

Menachem Katz relates his escape from the mowing down of the last Jews of Brzezany at the cemetery in 1943 through his experiences hiding in a bunker with seven other people. He describes life in hiding in detail as well as the relathionship with a family of Poles who assisted them in survival, and relates the severe difficulties of daily existence in the closed and crowded spaces. alongsode some moments of humor. Katz succeeded in locating members of the Polish family that saved him, and they were honored as Righteous Among the Nations.

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

בעריכת : Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Editor: Dr. Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Dan Stone - Lawrence L. Langer (1929–2024): In Memoriam

Barbara Engelking - “I Can’t Write”: Requests for Assistance Addressed to the Jewish National Committee in Warsaw, 1943–1944

Fábio Koifman and Rui Afonso - The Legality of the Visas Issued by the Brazilian Consulate in Hamburg, 1938–1939

Kenneth H. Marcus, Marlou Schrover, and Simon Erlanger - Remembering World War II Concentration Camps: Dutch Memorials and Transitional Justice

Efrat Buchris Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem in Theresienstadt: Music of Succor

Editor: Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Edited by Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Table of Contents: • Introduction • Michael Robert Marrus (1941-2022)—In Memoriam (Doris Bergen) • The Polish Underground State and the Financing of Help for the Jews: An Attempt at a New Approach (Dariusz Libionka) • News from Auschwitz: The International Underground’s Secret Reports and the Jewish Holocaust (Tom Navon) • Bandera, Genocide, and Justice: Was Stepan Bandera Responsible for Crimes Committed by the OUN and the UPA? (Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe) • Politics of Holocaust Memory in Communist and Post-Communist Romania: On Survivor Matei Gall’s Multiple Life Stories (Ștefan Cristian Ionescu and Dana Mihăilescu)

Editor: Dr. Sharon Kangisser Cohen

Table of Contents:

Introduction • Susanne Heim and Ulrich Herbert - A Comprehensive Documentation of the Holocaust: The Completion of the VEJ Project • Eliyahu Klein - Between Rescue and Persecution: Defining and Mapping the Range of Behaviors Toward Oppressed Jews During the Holocaust in the Countryside of Occupied Poland • Attila Gidó - Survivors of the Northern Transylvanian Deportations: Liberation, Repatriation, Reckoning • Gali Drucker Bar-Am - “Record and Lament”: Yizkor Books as History and Literature Conflated • Merav Yisrael and Gila Prebor - The Yizkor Book Collection in the Yad Vashem Library in Jerusalem: A Bibliographical Analysis

Editors: Irit Salmon-Livne, Ilana Guri, Yitzchak Mais

Julija Šukys

Edited by Livia Rothkirchen

Edited by Livia Rothkirchen