Selected Chapters

The following is a selection of book chapters and essay contributions by Debórah Dwork, representing decades of scholarship in Holocaust history, genocide studies, refugee history, and the history of childhood.

• "Jewish Life and Death under Nazi Rule across Europe and around the Globe," Volume III, Genocide in the Contemporary Era, 1914–2020, eds. Ben Kiernan, Wendy Lower, Norman Naimark, Scott Straus, in The Cambridge World History of Genocide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023).
• "Sexual Abuse, Sexual Barter, and Silence," Buried Words — A Special Issue of Holocaust Studies, eds. Hannah Holtschneider and Jo Pettitt. DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1893300.
• "Holocaust Studies: A Compass," in Advancing Holocaust Studies, eds. Carol Rittner and John Roth (New York: Routledge, 2020).
• "Flight and Exile," in A Companion to Nazi Germany, eds. Shelly Baranowski, Armin Nolzen, and Claus-Christian Szejnmann (Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2018).
• Project Report, IHRA Multi-year Project: Research on Education about the Holocaust. Published as: International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, ed., Research in Teaching and Learning About the Holocaust: A Dialogue Beyond Borders (Berlin: Metropol, 2017).
• "Introduction" to Nate Leipciger, The Weight of Freedom (Canada: The Azrieli Foundation, 2015).
• "To Work with the History of the Holocaust," in Engaging Violence: Trauma, Memory, and Representation, ed. Ivana Macek (Routledge, 2014).
• "Raising their Voices: Children's Resistance through Diary Writing and Song," in Jewish Resistance against the Nazis, ed. Patrick Henry (Washington, DC: Catholic University Press, 2014).
• "Rescue," in The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies, eds. Peter Hayes and John Roth (Oxford and N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2011).
• "Refugee Jews and the Holocaust: Luck, Fortuitous Circumstances, and Timing," in Jewish Perspectives on the "Forced Emigration" Period (1938/39 to 1941), eds. Susanne Heim, Beate Meyer, Francis Nicosia (Wallstein-Verlag, 2010).
• "The Challenges of Holocaust Scholarship: A Personal Statement," in Voices of Scholars, ed. Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs (Cracow: Jagiellonian University Center for Holocaust Studies, 2009).
• "Sala's World, 1939–1945: Sosnowiec, Schmelt's Camps, and the Holocaust," in Letters to Sala (N.Y.: New York Public Library, 2006). Co-authored with R.J. van Pelt.
• "Auschwitz," Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Ketter Publishing, 2006). Co-authored with R.J. van Pelt.
• "Foreword," in Harry Mulisch, Criminal Case 40/61: An Eyewitness Report on the Eichmann Trial, trans. Robert Naborn (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005).
• "Agents, Contexts, and Responsibilities: The Massacre at Budy," in Catastrophe and Meaning: Rethinking the Holocaust at the End of the 20th Century, eds. Moishe Postone and Eric Santer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003).
• "Die verschlungene Strasse in Auschwitz," in Bruchlinien, ed. Gertrude Koch (Köln and Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1999). Co-authored with R.J. van Pelt.
• "Custody and Care of Jewish Children in the Post-War Netherlands: Ethnic Identity and Cultural Hegemony," in Lessons and Legacies of the Holocaust III, ed. Peter Hayes (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1999).
• "The Politics of a Strategy for Auschwitz-Birkenau," Cardozo Law Review, vol. 20. Co-authored with R.J. van Pelt.
• "A Strategy for the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau," Cardozo Law Review, vol. 20. Co-authored with R.J. van Pelt.
• "German Persecution and Dutch Accommodation," in The World Reacts to the Holocaust, 1945–1990, ed. David Wyman (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Co-authored with R.J. van Pelt.
• "Lamed-Vovniks of 20th Century Europe: Participants in Jewish Child Rescue," in Resistance Against the Third Reich, ed. Michael Geyer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
• "Reclaiming Auschwitz," in Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory, ed. Geoffrey Hartman (London: Blackwell, 1993). Co-authored with R.J. van Pelt.
• "Childhood," in Encyclopaedia of the History of Medicine, eds. W.F. Bynum and Roy Porter (London: Routledge, 1993).