Emil Kerenji is an applied research scholar at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

• Introduction: The Peak of the HolocaustPart I: Facing the “Final Solution” (Fall 1942–Spring 1943)Chapter 1: The Impact of the Summer Deportations of 1942: From Warsaw to the WestChapter 2: The Camp UniverseChapter 3: Living and Working in the Remaining GhettosPart II: Responses in the Killing Zone (Fall 1942–Fall 1943)Chapter 4: Hiding and RescueChapter 5: Armed Resistance in GhettosChapter 6: Fighting Outside GhettosPart III: The War Tide Turns (Spring 1943–Late 1943)Chapter 7: Beyond Direct German ReachChapter 8: The Collapse of Fascist ItalyChapter 9: Free Jewries: Outside Hitler’s OrbitPart IV: The Varieties of Jewish ExperienceChapter 10: The Hungarian HolocaustChapter 11: Jewish Experiences in Extreme TimesChapter 12: Religion and the Holocaust

This impressive series provides a sense of the depth and diversity of contemporary Jewish documents while embedding them in explanatory narratives. . . .Volume IV covers 1943, a crucial year in the chronology of genocide and also in terms of the Jewish responses to it. It was the year that genocide engulfed most of its victims, and a plethora of documents show just how suddenly and forcefully it did. . . . Even as it focuses on the darkest period of the Holocaust, Volume IV remains dedicated to exploring the diverse experiences of various Jewish populations.