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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Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSermon for Chanukah 1941
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSilver Cup Made in a Labor Camp
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Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Europe
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustSong from Deggendorf DP camp
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustTefillin Owned by Alexander Kuechel
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSC Shoah Foundation Oral History with Robert Ness
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Objects of Memory
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustViolin Hidden in the Łódź Ghetto
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustW. E. B. Du Bois: "The Negro and the Warsaw Ghetto"