CONTENTS
Cover
About this Book
Title Page
Introduction: The All-Consuming Fire
MAP - German Administration of Eastern Europe, 1942
Chapter 1: September 1939: The Horror Begins
Reinhard Heydrich and the Ghettos
Piotrkow: The First Ghetto
Establishing the Lodz Ghetto
Warsaw: The Beginning of a Legend
Emmanuel Ringelblum, Chronicler of the Warsaw Ghetto
Chapter 2: Governing the Ghetto
Forming the Councils
The Fine Art of Survival
To Save at Least a Few
“Rescue Through Work”
The Jewish Police
Chapter 3: The Shape of Our Days
“Don’t Give Up Your Ration Card”
A Sickness Unto Death
Rules and Regulations
To Grow in Knowledge and Wisdom
“One Does Not Present Shows in Cemeteries”
“Even Here, Reason for Rejoicing”
A Special Purim
Chapter 4: Matters of Life and Death
The Killing Squads
Big Lies, Unbelievable Truths
Choosing When to Die
One Family’s Tragedy
“Our Hands Are Smeared With . . . Blood”
Chapter 5: Living in the Cracks
The Smugglers
The Secret People
The False “Aryans”
The Odyssey of Alicia Jurman
Chapter 6: Legacies of Courage
The Quiet Heroes
Fighting Back
On the Other Side of the Wall
The January “Action”
“Get Us Weapons!”
Under Siege
Chapter 7: The Beginning of the End
Dark Betrayals
Rude Awakenings
The Last of Lodz
Silence and Memories
Chronology
Chapter Notes
Glossary
Further Reading
Index
Note To Our Readers
Copyright
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