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SELECTED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Koonz, Claudia. “Courage and Choice: Women
Who Said No.” In
Mothers in the Fatherland:
Women, the Family and Nazi Politics,
307–44.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1987.
Krakowski, Shmuel.
The War of the Doomed: Jew-
ish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942–1944.
New York and London: Holmes and Meier,
1984.
*Landau, Elaine.
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New
York: Macmillan, 1992. The only book availa-
ble for middle school readers that deals with
the uprising in depth.
Langbein, Hermann.
Against All Hope: Resistance
in the Nazi Concentration Camps 1938–1945.
Translated by Harry Zohn. New York: Paragon
House, 1994. Langbein, a leader of the resis-
tance in Auschwitz, defines “active resistance”
in the camps as “an organized activity with far-
reaching goals” such as efforts to diminish the
exploitation of prisoners as workers in the
camp or to inform the outside world about
conditions. Escapes also are considered
“resistance” if they were planned and orga-
nized, and especially if their aim was to
spread news about Nazi crimes.
Laska, Vera, ed.
Women in the Resistance and in
the Holocaust: The Voices of Eyewitnesses.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1983.
Levin, Dov.
Fighting Back: Lithuanian Jewry’s
Armed Resistance to the Nazis, 1941–1945.
New York and London: Holmes and Meier,
1985.
Marrus, Michael R.
The Holocaust in History,
108–55. New York: Meridian, 1987. The best
starting place for understanding the various
historical issues regarding Jewish resistance.
*Meed, Vladka.
On Both Sides of the Wall. New
York: Holocaust Library, 1979. An informa-
tive memoir of the Warsaw ghetto by one of
the young couriers in the ghetto resistance.
Michel, Henri.
The Shadow War: European
Resistance 1939–1945.
New York: Harper and
Row, 1972. Michel is one of the foremost
authorities on European resistance.
*Miller, Russell, and others.
The Resistance.
World War II, vol. 17. Alexandria, VA: Time-
Life Books, 1979.
Milton, Sybil, ed. and trans. The Stroop Report.
New York: Pantheon, 1979. SS Major General
Juergen Stroop oversaw the destruction of
the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. His almost daily,
detailed reports of the ghetto’s liquidation
provide a vivid picture of the battle and of
the determined heroism of the underground
fighters.
Nicosia, Francis R., and Lawrence D. Stokes,
eds.
Germans Against Nazism: Nonconformity,
Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich.
Essays in Honour of Peter Hoffmann.
Oxford:
Berg, 1990. Fruits of recent scholarship on
German resistance.
Rings, Werner.
Life With the Enemy: Collabora-
tion and Resistance in Hitler’s Europe.
New
York: Doubleday, 1982. Rings breaks resis-
tance down into five broad categories: sym-
bolic (e.g., communication of ultimate hope
of military victory over Germans), polemical
(e.g., efforts to persuade people to oppose
Nazi aggression), defensive (e.g., recruitment,
planning, arming phases of resistance
groups), offensive (e.g., activities of armed
partisans), and resistance enchained (e.g.,
Jewish ghetto rebellions, undertaken with no
hope of success).
Roskies, David, ed.
The Literature of Destruc-
tion: Jewish Responses to Catastrophe.
Phila-
delphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1989.
Includes selections composed by ghetto his-
torians, poets, and rabbis.
*Scholl, Inge.
The White Rose: Munich 1942–
1943.
Translated from the German by Arthur
R. Schultz. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 1983. This illustrated book
includes the entire texts of the “White Rose”
leaflets.
Smolar, Hersh.
The Minsk Ghetto: Soviet-Jewish
Partisans Against the Nazis.
New York:
Holocaust Library, 1989. Smolar, a leader of
the resistance in the Minsk ghetto, became a
partisan commander in the forests after the
ghetto’s liquidation.
*Stadtler, Bea.
The Holocaust: A History of
Courage and Resistance.
West Orange, NJ:
Behrman House, 1975. One of the earliest
books for middle school students on the
Holocaust, this is still one of the most useful
introductions to Jewish resistance.