"This is a ground-breaking volume, wholly original, thoughtfully conceived, and brilliantly executed. Each [chapter] offers a fresh lens on this many-faceted experience, opening doors no one even knew were there."--Debórah Dwork, author of "An essential and original work that broadens the scope of Holocaust scholarship. By foregrounding age as a crucial category of analysis, the editors and contributors illuminate new dimensions of persecution, survival, fate, and memory."--Michael Newman, chief executive, Association of Jewish Refugees "This original and richly varied collection of essays makes important contributions both to Holocaust studies and the historiography of old age. It ranges from pre-Holocaust and postwar care institutions to wartime experiences of survivors and previously underappreciated stories of older refugees and displaced persons scattered across the globe."--David G. Troyansky, professor of history, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY "What did it mean to be old in the Holocaust? In offering answers to this question, this volume offers a plethora of surprising, unsentimental, and innovative insights into the history of the Shoah.

The authors reveal our preconceptions, invite us to think inclusively, and present bold new visions of victims' agency and powerlessness as well as global dimensions of the genocide."--Anna Hájková, author of.