Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tradition, Accommodation, Conflict : Jews and Lithuanians from the Grand Duchy to the End of the First Republic -- The Stalinist Cauldron : Lithuanians, Jews, and Soviet Power, June 1940-June 1941 -- The Specter of Genocide : Invasion, Insurrection, and the Assault on the Jews, June 22-July 31, 1941 -- Concentration and Destruction : The Mass Murder Campaign in Lithuania, August-December 1941 -- Survival, Destruction, Struggle : Ghettos and Jewish Resistance -- Images of Blood : Perpetrators, Observers, Bystanders, Rescuers -- The Past as Legacy and Conflict : Wartime and Holocaust Narratives in Lithuania.

"Crisis, War, and the Holocaust in Lithuania is the first scholarly English-language study of Lithuania during World War II which utilizes previously inaccessible archives as well as academic works published in that country in the post-Soviet era. In the first chapters, the book examines the multifaceted relations of Lithuania's national communities before World War II and the international and domestic crises which led to the destruction of the Lithuanian state in 1940. The author describes in detail the process of the mass persecution and murder of the country's Jews during the Holocaust, the role of Nazi and collaborationist forces, acts of resistance, as well as the society's responses. The book concludes with an examination of the postwar struggle within Lithuania to confront this legacy of unprecedented violence"-- Provided by publisher.