How Did It Happen?: Understanding the Holocaust

Christoph Dieckmann is a German historian who has taught and conducted research at Keele University and the Fritz Bauer Institute. He currently directs a sound-history study, Sounds of Anti-Jewish Persecution, at the University of Bern. His book Deutsche Besatzungspolitik in Litauen 1941-1944 (German Occupation Policy in Lithuania 1941-1944) was awarded the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research. Ruta Vanagaite, a best-selling Lithuanian writer and journalist, became persona non grata in her homeland after her previous book, Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust, was first published in Lithuania. She now lives in Jerusalem.