CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1Beyond the Pale: Pre-War Jewish Life in Eastern Europe

2The Origins of the Nazi State

3Nazis and the Imaginary East

4The Soviet Interlude

5Poland: The Nazi Laboratory of Genocide

6War of Annihilation: The Invasion of the Soviet Union

7Ghetto Life and Death in the East

8Hitler’s Eastern Allies

9The Final Solution

10The Kaleidoscope of Jewish Resistance

11Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Rescuers

Conclusion

Notes

Index