Yad Vashem Studies, 39:1 is dedicated to the memory of Maxime Steinberg, the Belgian Jewish historian who pioneered the study of the Holocaust in Belgium, and opens with an article on his contribution to the field.

The research articles in this volume address Jewish reactions during and after the Shoah, the question of rescue during the Shoah, reactions in North America, and more. Rescue attempts ranging from the town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz) to Alaska; Jewish survival strategies in Germany; Israeli remembrance of the Righteous Among the Nations and grappling with the memory of Jewish policemen in Poland; information and reactions in Canada; and reviews of recent important books highlight the latest issue.

CONTENTS

Introduction 1

Insa Meinen

Maxime Steinberg — Brussels, 1936−2010

Christoph Kreutzmüller, Ingo Loose, Benno Nietzel

Nazi Persecution and Strategies for Survival Jewish Businesses in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, and Breslau, 1933–1942

Artur Szyndler

“It is high time that the emigration problem will be solved finally”: Leon Schönker and His Plan for Jewish Emigration from the Katowice District

Avihu Ronen, Hadas Agmon, Asaf Danziger

Collaborator or Would-Be Rescuer? The Barenblat Trial and the Image of a Judenrat Member in 1960s Israel

Kobi Kabalek

The Commemoration before the Commemoration: Yad Vashem and the Righteous Among the Nations, 1945–1963

Ulrich Frisse

The “Bystanders’ Perspective”: The Toronto Daily Star and Its Coverage of the Persecution of the Jews and the Holocaust in Canada, 1933–1945

Hava Eshkoli Wagman

The Alaska Plan: Jewish Initiatives to Rescue Refugees from Nazi Germany

REVIEWS

Pim Griffioen

The Shoah in Belgium

Insa Meinen, Die Shoah in Belgien

Christopher R. Browning

The German Foreign Office: Myth and Reality

Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, and Moshe Zimmermann, Das Amt und die Vergangenheit: Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik

Jan T. Gross

Jewish Lives (and Deaths) during the Warsaw Uprising

Barbara Engelking and Dariusz Libionka, Żydzi w powstańczej Warszawie

Yehuda Bauer

Lemkin, Genocide, Holocaust

Agnieszka Bieńczyk-Missala and Sławomir Dębski, eds., Rafał Lemkin: A Hero of Humankind

Contributors

Instructions for Contributors