A Holocaust reader

Preconditions: conventional anti-Semitism and Adolf Hitler

The first stage: anti-Jewish legislation

The interim stage: "All necessary preparations"

The final stage: mass killings, "resettlement," death camps

The first ordeal: the Jews in Germany 1933-1938

The ordeals of the ghettos in Eastern Europe

The ordeals of the Judenräte

Confronting death: the ordeals of deportation

Resistance: the ordeal of desperation.