Creators & Contributors
United States Holocaust Memorial Council (author)

Summary"The purpose of this Guide is twofold: to provide the reader with background historical information on the Holocaust during 1941, from January 1 through December 31; and to provide materials and sources for additional materials that will assist commemoration program coordinators to plan Days of Remembrance events." —Page xii

Contents

• Message from President George Bush, April 23, 1990
• Dear friend
• Acknowledgements
• Days of Remembrance Committee membership
• Use of this planning guide
• Introduction
• Section 1. Chronology of events: 1941
• Section 2. "Fifty years ago: from terror to systematic murder"
  • Excerpt from: The decision concerning the "Final Solution"
  • Nazi paperwork of the "Final Solution": origins and authentication of the Wannsee Protocol
  • Excerpt from: The Einsatzgruppen reports
• Section 3. Reflections
  • Reflections from the West: excerpts from:
    • Leo Baeck: A people stands before its god
    • Etty Hillesum: An interrupted life
    • Abraham Raisky: We fought back in France
    • The road to genocide: the destiny of Europe's Gypsies
    • Bubili: a young Gypsy's fight for survival
    • Valerie Wolffenstein: Shadow of a star
    • Jehovah's Witnesses: members of the Kusserow family
    • Vera Gissing: A refugee in England
    • And in the United States: period articles from The New York Times
  • Photographs
  • Reflections from the East: excerpts from:
    • Emmanuel Ringelblum: Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto
    • Chaim A. Kaplan: Scroll of agony
    • David Rubinowicz: a diary
    • Mordechai Pdchlebnik: Chelmno
    • Franz Schalling: Chelmno
    • The Cracow Ghetto pharmacy
    • Luzer Lyskind: grandmother
    • The Iasi pogrom, June 1941
    • Tadeusz Rosicki: Poles remember the Holocaust
    • Gypsy camp in the Lodz Ghetto
    • The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto
    • Abraham Sutzkever: I am lying in this coffin
    • Lilly Pancis: Deportation to the East
    • Jan Lipke: An unusual man
    • Robert: Rachel's wedding
    • Yitzhak Arad: Under the swastika again
  • Reflections from the Far and Middle East: excerpts from:
    • The Fugu Plan
    • Hannah Senesh in Palestine
• Section 4. Planning aids
  • Introduction
  • National Civic Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance, April 24, 1990
  • Wall of Remembrance: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. An introduction
  • Sample civic proclamation
  • Sample news release
  • Suggested resources
  • Suggested planning check list
• Section 5. References

Notes

• Cover title: Fifty years ago : from terror to systematic murder : 1991 days of remembrance : Sunday, April 7 through Sunday, April 14, 1991
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 184–207)