n United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

 

Documenting Life
and Destruction

Holocaust Sources
in Context

 

 

 

 

Series Editor

Jürgen Matthäus

 

 

Documenting Life and Destruction

Holocaust Sources in Context

 

This groundbreaking series provides a new perspective on history using firsthand accounts of the lives of those who suffered through the Holocaust, those who perpetrated it, and those who witnessed it as bystanders. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies presents a wide range of documents from different archival holdings, expanding knowledge about the lives and fates of Holocaust victims and making those resources broadly available to the general public and scholarly communities for the first time.

 

 

SERIES EDITOR:

Jürgen Matthäus is the research director at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.

 

 

Books in the Series

 

1. Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933–1946, Volume I, 1933–1938, Jürgen Matthäus and Mark Roseman (2009)

2. Children during the Holocaust, Patricia Heberer (2011)

 

 

 

A project of the

 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

Sara J. Bloomfield

Director

 

 

Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

 

Paul A. Shapiro

Director

 

Jürgen Matthäus

Director, Applied Research

 

 

under the auspices of the

 

Academic Committee

of the

United States Holocaust Memorial Council

 

Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Chair

Doris L. Bergen

Peter Hayes

John T. Pawlikowski

Richard Breitman

Sara Horowitz

Harry Reicher

Christopher R. Browning

Steven T. Katz

Aron Rodrigue

David Engel

William S. Levine

George D. Schwab

Willard A. Fletcher

Deborah E. Lipstadt

Nechama Tec

Zvi Y. Gitelman

Michael R. Marrus

James E. Young

 

 

with major support from

 

The Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus Fund
for the Study of the Fate and Rescue
of Children in the Holocaust

and
The Blum Family Foundation

 

 

 

The authors have worked to provide clear information about the provenance of each document and illustration included here. In some instances we have been unable to verify the existence or identity of any present copyright owners. If notified of any item inadvertently credited wrongly, we will include updated credit information in reprints of this work. In the same vein, if a reader has verifiable information about a person’s fate that remains incomplete in this volume, it would be greatly appreciated if that data were shared with the authors.

 

 

Documenting Life and Destruction

Holocaust Sources in Context

 

CHILDREN DURING THE HOLOCAUST

 

 

Patricia Heberer

 

 

Introduction by Nechama Tec

 

 

 

Advisory Committee:

 

Christopher R. Browning

David Engel

Sara Horowitz

Steven T. Katz

Aaron Rodrigue

Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Nechama Tec

 

 

 

 

AltaMira Press

in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

2011