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Documents on the Holocaust

Documents on the Holocaust is a comprehensive collection of essential documents  on the destruction of the Jews of Germany and Austria, Poland, and the Soviet Union. The collection reflects both the major trends and developments in Nazi ideology and policy towards the Jews and the behavior and reaction of the Jews in the face of the Nazi challenge. The documents below were written during the month of June.

• Regulation Requiring Jews to Change their Names, August 1938

• Establishment of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, August 1938

• Rosenberg's Order on Forced Labor For Jews in the Occupied Territories

• The Election of Elkes as Head of the Judenrat in Kovno

• "The Face of the Future," Editorial from the Newspaper of a Jewish Underground Youth Organization In Cracow

• From Notes Made by Kurt Gerstein, an Engineer Working for the SS, on the Extermination Camp at Belzec

• Life of Jewish Partisans and Jewish Family Camps in the Forest, from a Diary by a Jewish Partisan, 1942-1943