David Bankier / Israel Gutman (ed.): Nazi Europe and the Final Solution. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem. The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority 2003, 572 S., ISBN 965-308-163-2, USD 49,00. Introduction 11 Germany Signaling the Final Solution to the German People 15 David Bankier Exclusion as a Stage in Persecution. The Jewish Situation in 40 Germany, 1933-1941 Wolfgang Benz The Boycott Campaign as an Arena of Collective Violence against .53 Jews in Germany, 1933-1938 Michael Wildt Customers, Patients, Neighbors and Friends. Relations between Jews .73 and non- Jews in Germany, 1933-1938 Trude Maurer The Rescue of Jews, 1941-1945 - Resistance by Quite Ordinary 93 Germans Beate Kosmala Poland Polish Historiography on the Holocaust 111 Jerzy Tomaszewski Possibilities of Rescuing Polish Jewry under German Occupation 136 and the Influence of the Polish Government-in-Exile David Engel Polish- Jewish Relations in the Light of Polish Political Attitudes 149 During the War Period Israel Gutman Attitudes Toward the Jews in the Polish Underground Press, 1939- 163 1944 Andrej Friszke Witnessing the Holocaust: Polish Diaries, Memoirs and 175 Reminiscences Feliks Tych A Hesitant Partnership: The Bund and Polish Socialists During the 199 Holocaust Daniel Blatman The Polish Underground and the Jews in the Years of the Second 215 World War Shmuel Krakowski The Soviet Union The Local Population in the German-Occupied Territories of the 233 Soviet Union and its Attitude toward the Murder of the Jews Yitzhak Arad In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Lithuanian- Jewish Relations in the 249 Crucial Years 1940-1944 Vygantas Vareikis The Attitude of the Ukrainian Nationalist Groups Towards Jews 265 during the Second World War Aharon Weiss The Soviet Person as a Bystander of the Holocaust: The Case of 276 Eastern Belorussia Daniel Romanovsky Czechoslovakia Czech Society and the "Final Solution" 309 Miroslav Karny Changes in the Attitude of the Slovak Population to the So-Callec 327 "Solution to the Jewish Question" During the Period 1938-1945 Ivan Kamenec Romania The Opposition to the Antonescu Regime: its Attitude Towards the 339 Jews during the Holocaust Jean Ancel France Jews and Non- Jews in France During the Second World War 361 John F. Sweets French Public Opinion and the "Jewish Question," 1930-1942: the 374 Role of Middle-Class Professional Associations Vicki Car on The French Resistance: An Alternative Society for the Jews? 411 Renée Poznanski Holland and Belgium Routines and Traditions: The Reactions of Non- Jews and Jews in the 437 Netherlands to War and Persecution Ida de Haan Problematic National Identity, Outsiders and Persecution: Impact of 455 the Gentile Population's Attitude in .Belgium on the Fate of the Jews in 1940-1944 Dan Michman Belgium and the Jews under Nazi Rule: Beyond the Myths 469 Jean-Philippe Schreiber Italy The Italians and the Jews During the Fascist and German 491 Persecutions Liliana Picciotto The Rescue of Jews in Italy and the Existence of a Papal Directive 519 Susan Zuccotti Denmark The Rescue of the Danish Jews in October 1943 539 Hans Kirchhoff List of Contributors 556 Index of Names and Places 561 .