Resources for Meir

Books

• The Life of Jews in Poland Before the Holocaust: a Memoir

  Gold, Ben-Zion, Lincoln and London, 2007.

  A memoir about Jewish life in Poland before the war.
• Last Barrier to Freedom: Internment of Jewish Holocaust Survivors on Cyprus 1946-1949

  Laub, Morris, Berkeley: Judah L. Magnes Museum, 1985.

  Story of would be Jewish immigrants to Mandatory Palestine who were caught and imprisoned on Cyprus.
• *Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust

  Mais, Yitzchak, and Bonnie Gurewitsch, eds., New York: Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 2007.

  Exhibition volume depicting the range of Jewish resistance efforts during the Holocaust.
• *Hiding to Survive: Stories of Jewish Children Rescued from the Holocaust

  Rosenberg, Maxine B., New York, 1994.

  Stories of 14 Jewish children hidden with non-Jewish families during the Holocaust.
• *The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance

  Stadtler, Bea, Springfield: Behrman House, 2005.

  Textbook of for the history of the Holocaust.

Websites

• Judenrat

  http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Judenraete.html

  Text of the Nazi regulation establishing the Jewish Councils in occupied territories
• Aliya Bet and Machal Virtual Museum

  http://www.israelvets.com/home.html

  Virtual museum on the history of the clandestine immigration efforts of 1946 – 1949
• Ghetto Fighters’ House

  http://www.gfh.org.il/eng

  A museum and kibbutz in Israel founded by a community of Holocaust survivors, ghetto fighters, and partisans

Films

• Echoes that Remain

  60 Minutes, 1991

  A poignant study of Jewish life before the Holocaust with rare archival photos and film footage.
• Courage to Care

  29 Minutes, 1986

  A documentary about non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews from Nazi persecution.
• The Long Way Home

  120 Minutes, 1997

  Academy Award-winning documentary of Holocaust survivors struggling to rebuild their lives in the years following WWII.