Older Jews and the Holocaust

Name: Older Jews and the Holocaust
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Persecution, Displacement, and Survival

Elizabeth Anthony, Christine Schmidt, Joanna Sliwa

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Wayne State University Press
17 March 2026

The Holocaust; Age groups: the elderly; Jewish studies

Insight into the lives of older Jews before, during, and after the Holocaust.

Elderly Jews were among the most vulnerable groups during the Holocaust, yet little scholarly and literary work has focused on their experiences. Not only were they often the first to be murdered by the Nazis but they were also less likely to survive the physical strains of persecution. Editors Christine Schmidt, Elizabeth Anthony, and Joanna Sliwa and thirteen additional scholars center this marginalized group in historical research and counter other narratives in historiography and memory that only recount the devastation and despair associated with older age during the Holocaust. While these chapters explore how age and physical ability made older adults especially susceptible to violence and death, they also illuminate life and moments of agency within devastating circumstances. This volume is a powerful recovery of history and memory that expands our understanding of the Holocaust and the human experience during genocide.

Edited by: Elizabeth Anthony, Christine Schmidt, Joanna Sliwa
Imprint: Wayne State University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780814352052
ISBN 10: 0814352057
Pages: 376
Publication Date: 17 March 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Elizabeth Anthony is a historian and director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. She is the author of The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews After the Holocaust (Wayne State University Press), which was a finalist for the Wiener Holocaust Library's Ernst Fraenkel Prize. Christine Schmidt is a historian and deputy director and head of research at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London. Schmidt is coeditor of Survivors of Nazi Persecution: Beyond Camps and Forced Labour; Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases, and Reflections; and ""Gender, Archiving, and Knowledge Production After the Holocaust: A Postwar Republic of Letters,"" a special issue of History of Intellectual Culture. She is currently writing a book on German Jewish women and archiving after the Holocaust. Joanna Sliwa is a historian and administrator of academic programs at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference). She is the author of Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust and coauthor, with Elizabeth B. White, of The Counterfeit Countess: The Jewish Woman Who Rescued Thousands of Poles During the Holocaust.