Between Dignity and Despair

Between Dignity and Despair focuses on the everyday tyranny Jews experienced and their reactions to the living nightmare of Nazism. Using a wide variety of sources, including memoirs, diaries, and letters, Kaplan explores the most fundamental aspects of Jewish lives, their homes, families, and communities, and shows how the victims, especially women and families, tried to cope with Nazism as the noose tightened around their daily lives.