More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi-Era Camps and Ghettos, a new book edited by Holocaust scholars Jan Lánícek and Jan Lambertz, tells the story of organized Jewish responses to persecution during World War II. Offering case studies from Washington to Sweden to the Soviet Union, the contributors track the importance of relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners in wartime Europe by families, friends, religious communities, and humanitarian groups. This new collection offers critical new insights into wartime rescue work and what the outside world knew about life and death in Nazi camps and ghettos.

Jan Lambertz is an Applied Researcher and historian at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. She has published widely on Jewish responses to persecution during the Nazi era and on early postwar knowledge about the Holocaust.

Jan Lání?ek is Associate Professor in Modern European and Jewish history at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. His recent books include Arnošt Frischer and the Jewish Politics of Early 20th-Century Europe (2017) and The Jew in Czech and Slovak Imagination, 1938-89: Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Zionism (with Hana Kubátová, 2018).

Gerald J Steinacher is the James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His many publications focus on the Holocaust, National Socialism, and Italian fascism. His contribution to this book examines the International Committee of the Red Cross in Switzerland and its relief efforts for Jews during the Holocaust.

To register for this Book Talk, go to https://go.unl.edu/parcelsbooktalk by the noon, Monday, September 19th, 2022.