Jewish Resistance Against the Nazis

Acknowledgments

xi Acknowledgments I am profoundly indebted to the contributors to this volume, almost none of whom knew me personally when I contacted them and asked if they would be willing to write an essay about Jewish resistance against the Nazis in a specific geographical location. The fact that just about everyone I asked immediately agreed to do so strengthened my confidence in the importance of this work. I am particularly grateful to those contributors who persisted despite trying family health situations, and to three contributors, Debórah Dwork, Nancy Lefenfeld, and Richard Middleton-Kaplan, who helped me out significantly in many other ways. For various reasons, I also want to thank the following people: Elliott Abramson , Chana Arnon, Barbara Barnett, Beth Benevides, Alan Berger, Holly Case, Catherine Epstein, Martin Goldman, Sandy Goodhart, Dan Gordon, Peter Hayes, René Lichtman, Bob Moss, Kenneth Moss, Larry Mulkerin, Irena Polkowska Rutenberg, Stephanie Seltzer, Timothy Snyder, (the late) Ted Stein, Susan Suleiman , Lynne Vieth, and Zev Weiss. I am indebted as well to the former director of the Catholic University of America Press, David McGonagle, who oversaw the beginnings of this project, and the current director, Trevor Lipscombe, who has brought it to fruition. At the press, I am also grateful to Theresa Walker, Brian Roach, Tanjam Jacobson, and two insightful anonymous readers of the penultimate draft. I would also like to thank Nancy Halsey for doing a superb job of copyediting this unruly manuscript and Denise Carlson for compiling the index. Once again, Kristin Vining has prepared the text with her usual intelligence, patience, flexibility, insight, goodwill, and creativity. I could not be more grateful for her inspired assistance. Finally, there is always my sweetheart and forty-year companion, Mary Anne O’Neil, who has patiently engaged every argument, listened carefully to every anecdote, and encouraged me at every step. I’d be lost without her on paper and everywhere else. ...