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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
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.
Josef Zelkowicz | Edited by Michal Unger