Here, in one definitive volume, are over one hundred spellbinding eyewitness accounts of a brutal period in history that claimed the lives of millions of innocent victims. After years of painstaking research, Dr. Azriel Eisenberg has assembled -- from diaries, letters, and books -- a monumental collection of writings by people who suffered under Hitler's nightmarish reign. Many of these writings are published here for the first time in English. From all over the world, the young and the old, Jew and Christian, tell their own moving and alarming stories. -- From the book jacket.

Chapter headings : A crime without equal -- Germany goes Nazi -- Adolf Hitler -- The NSDAP, SS and Gestapo : state within a state -- Foreshadowing of doom : from boycott day to Kristallnacht -- Silent, passive world -- Exodus and flight -- War -- The destruction and rescue of Jewish books and religious treasures -- Deportation -- The death camps : Auschwitz -- Extermination of Russian and Polish Jewry -- Kiddush Ha-shem and Kiddush Ha-Hayyim -- Children in the Holocaust -- Hiding, "passing," escaping and rescue efforts -- Hasidei Umot Haolam : the righteous gentiles -- Warsaw Ghetto rebellion -- Resistance and rebellion -- Jewish partisan fighters -- Death marches and liberation -- The homecoming -- The She'erit Hapletah -- Illegal immigration of DPS to Palestine -- Grim end and judgment day -- Postwar Germany and the Jews -- In eternal remembrance -- The lessons for mankind -- Chronology.