Many primary sources on the Holocaust speak to the important place that hope played in people's struggles for survival. Rumors of rescue or an approaching defeat of the Nazis could later result in disappointment when liberation failed arrive, but hope for the future also helped to keep people alive in desperate situations.
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the Holocaust"Should I Sacrifice to Live 'Half-American?'"
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"To the Wide Jewish Masses"
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Wartime Jewish Press
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"To the Workers' Masses in Poland"
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustBetty Straus, "Our Cabin"
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Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleBible Study Materials Smuggled into Dachau
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Elvira Kohn
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Peter Feigl
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustFelix Noskowski and Willi Konrad, "A Birthday Epistle for Moritz Henschel"
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Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustGad Beck: "Do You Remember, When"
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Isaak Shmaruk to Sulamif Tsybulnik
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Jakub Birnbaum to Róża Szczegowska
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Kopel Nachbar to Alfred Weiss and Mollie Levin
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Wartime Correspondence
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustLetter from Sarah Froiman to her Friends and Brother
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMemoir of Fryderyk Winnykamień
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustNastia Kronenberg, HASAG poem