Night without End

"Professors Grabowski and Engelking belong to the small group of founders of the  New Polish School of Research on the Holocaust.  Their work has revolutionized historiography of the Holocaust in Poland and beyond. Night without End shows well the meticulous quality of their scholarship and the openness with which they confront the subject of complicity of the local population in the persecution of Jews during the German occupation of Poland.  "

~Jan T Gross, Princeton University (Emeritus)

"Night Without End marks a turning point in scholarship on the Holocaust in Poland. Drilling down on the role of the local population in the Judeocide, Night Without End sheds bright light on key questions long taboo in Polish society and elided by historians. Bold and innovative, it opens our lens on Jews' struggle for survival through the trajectories of individuals, showing how their Polish, Ukrainian, and Belorussian neighbors greatly increased or substantially diminished their chances of survival."

~Debórah Dwork, The Graduate Center—City University of New York

"This remarkable volume includes a series of detailed local studies of the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland by a group of outstanding scholars. Altogether, Night without End provides an unprecedented reconstruction of the daily reality of genocide, meticulously demonstrating the extent of local Polish participation in hunting down and murdering their Jewish neighbors. No amount of apologetic arguments will be able to dispel the well-documented findings of this volume or dispute the general conclusion that numerous victims might have survived but for the greed and callousness of the surrounding Polish society. This shocking book is an indispensable addition to the scholarship on the Holocaust and to our understanding of the social dynamic of genocide."

~Omer Bartov, author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

"The insights in this outstanding work challenge long-standing Polish ethnonationalist myths."

~R. K. Byczkiewicz, Central Connecticut State University, Choice

"Night without End is a significant addition to our understanding about how the Germans pursued the so-called Final Solution in Eastern Europe—namely, with the help of local non-Jewish populations.... [It] demonstrates how the Germans' genocidal goals were impossible without the collaboration of Poles."

~Andrew Apostolou, Tablet