The Death of the Shtetl - Yehuda Bauer candlestick Harper Perennial Publishing 2007

Harper Perennial Publishing 2007

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The Death of the Shtetl - Yehuda Bauer candlestick Harper Perennial Publishing 2007In this book, Yehuda Bauer, an internationally acclaimed Holocaust historian, describes the destruction of small Jewish townships, the shtetls, in what was the eastern part of Poland by the Nazis in 19411942. Bauer brings together all available documents, testimonies, and scholarship, including previously unpublished material from the Yad Vashem archives, pertaining to nine representative shtetls. In line with his belief that history is the story of