The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: Volume 3, The Victims and Their Worlds: 1939–1945 edited by Marion Kaplan and Natalia Aleksiun – Hardback (ISBN: 9781108830225)

Edited by Marion Kaplan and Natalia Aleksiun

The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: Volume 3, The Victims and Their Worlds: 1939–1945 edited by Marion Kaplan and Natalia Aleksiun is the third volume in Cambridge University Press’s landmark scholarly history of the Holocaust. This volume centers the experiences, perspectives, survival strategies, social worlds, testimonies, and documentary traces of Holocaust victims during the years of persecution, displacement, ghettoization, deportation, forced labor, hiding, resistance, and mass murder.

Designed for university libraries, Holocaust studies programs, Jewish studies departments, genocide studies centers, modern European history courses, graduate seminars, museum libraries, archives, oral history programs, research institutes, and institutional procurement teams, this hardback volume supports advanced teaching and research into victim experiences, testimony, everyday life under Nazi rule, Jewish communities, non-Jewish victims, survival, and memory.

What This Book Does

This volume examines the Holocaust from the perspective of those targeted by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. It explores how victims experienced persecution across different regions, communities, identities, and social settings, while highlighting survivor testimony, diaries, letters, recovered writings, cultural responses, family life, religious life, gendered experiences, children’s experiences, hiding, flight, forced labor, resistance, and the destruction of Jewish worlds between 1939 and 1945.

Key Features

• Third volume of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust series
• Edited by Marion Kaplan and Natalia Aleksiun and published by Cambridge University Press
• Focuses on Holocaust victims’ experiences, voices, communities, and social worlds from 1939–1945
• Covers persecution, ghettos, deportation, hiding, forced labor, resistance, testimony, and survival
• Includes attention to Jewish and non-Jewish victims, regional experiences, gender, age, family, and community life
• Major academic reference for Holocaust studies, Jewish studies, genocide studies, oral history, and modern European history

Who Should Use This Book?

• Holocaust studies students, faculty, historians, and researchers
• Jewish studies, genocide studies, and human rights programs
• Modern European history and twentieth-century history departments
• Graduate seminars studying victim testimony, survivor memory, and wartime Jewish communities
• University libraries, museum libraries, archives, and research institutes
• Holocaust education centers, oral history programs, and public history organizations
• Institutions purchasing advanced Holocaust history reference books in bulk or for library collections

Why It’s Essential

• Places victims’ voices, experiences, and worlds at the center of Holocaust scholarship
• Supports advanced research into testimony, everyday life, survival, family, community, and cultural response
• Complements perpetrator-focused histories by foregrounding the lived reality of persecution and genocide
• Strong fit for institutional libraries, Holocaust education centers, museums, universities, and research collections

A major Cambridge hardback volume for Holocaust studies, victim history, survivor testimony, Jewish studies, genocide studies, modern European history, and institutional research libraries.
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Product Details

• ISBN-13: 9781108830225
• ISBN-10: 1108830226
• Digital ISBN: 9781108900447
• Volume: Volume 3
• Editors: Marion Kaplan and Natalia Aleksiun
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Series: The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 560
• Publication Date: May 16, 2025
• Condition: New
• Price: $54.99
• Minimum Order: 5 Copies
• Availability: In Stock

TOC Highlights

• General Editor’s Introduction
• Introduction to Volume III
• Victim Voices, Testimony, Diaries, and Recovered Writings
• Jewish Worlds under Nazi Occupation
• Ghettos, Deportation, Forced Labor, and Mass Violence
• Family, Gender, Childhood, Religion, and Community Life
• Hiding, Flight, Rescue, and Survival Strategies
• Resistance, Cultural Response, and Spiritual Survival
• Non-Jewish Victims and the Wider Landscape of Nazi Persecution
• Memory, Documentation, and the Preservation of Victim Experiences

FAQs

• Is this Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Holocaust?
  Yes. This listing is for The Cambridge History of the Holocaust: Volume 3, The Victims and Their Worlds: 1939–1945.
• Who edited this volume?
  Volume 3 is edited by Marion Kaplan and Natalia Aleksiun.
• Who publishes this book?
  The book is published by Cambridge University Press.
• What does Volume 3 cover?
  It focuses on Holocaust victims and their worlds from 1939–1945, including testimony, diaries, Jewish communities, ghettos, deportation, hiding, forced labor, family life, gender, children, resistance, survival, and memory.
• Is this suitable for academic libraries?
  Yes. It is suitable for university libraries, museum libraries, Holocaust studies collections, Jewish studies programs, genocide studies centers, oral history programs, and research institutes.
• Is this suitable for institutional and bulk orders?
  Yes. BooksGoat supports bulk purchasing for universities, libraries, museums, research centers, history departments, Holocaust education programs, and institutional procurement teams.