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Acknowledgments

THIS WORK REFLECTS THE EFFORTS and contributions of many institutions and individuals in the United States, Poland, and Germany. Research for this study has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays Grant, the Social Science Research Council Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, graduate fellowships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Holocaust Educational Foundation, the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Fund for Faculty Development at the University of Vermont, a grant from the International Advisory Council at the University of Vermont, a University of Vermont Department of History Nelson Grant, and the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont.

I am especially grateful to Peter Fritzsche of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who supervised the doctoral dissertation that was the foundation for this study. His creativity and enthusiastic support have been an inspiration to me as a historian and as a teacher. I am also indebted to many mentors and colleagues who have offered their support and critiques at various stages of this work, including Diane Koenker, Paul Schroeder, Harry Liebersohn, Charles Stewart, David Coleman, David Krugler, and Victor Libet at the University of Illinois. Patrick Hutton and Denise Youngblood, colleagues in the department of history at the University of Vermont, have also provided valuable insights on sections of the manuscript. For their advice and support I also thank Kevin Beilfuss, Stanislaus Blejwas, Bogac Ergene, Michael Eversole, Peter Hayes, Katherine Quimby Johnson, David Massell, Wolfgang Mieder, Sybil Milton, Francis R. Nicosia, James Overfield, Kathy Pence, Antony Polonsky, Brian Porter, Douglas Selvage, Sean Stilwell, and especially David Scrase, director of the Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont.

John Bukowczyk, editor of the series in which this book is published, has offered both encouragement and thoughtful critiques of the manuscript. I am also grateful to my readers from Ohio University Press, whose suggestions have improved this work in countless ways. It has been a pleasure to work with the editorial and production staffs at Ohio University Press, and I especially appreciate the enthusiasm and counsel of senior editor Gillian Berchowitz and the skills of Ricky S. Huard, an exceptional copy editor.

I am indebted to many colleagues and friends who offered their support while I was undertaking research for this study in Oświęcim, Warsaw, Kraków, and Berlin: Danuta Bielecka, Franz von Hammerstein, Hannah Lange, Annelies Piening, Faustin Plitzko, Jutta Renner, Carol Scherer, and Joanna and Adam Walaszek. There are many at the State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim who have helped bring this study to completion, especially Wacław Długoborski, Krystyna Oleksy, Teresa Świebocka, and Jerzy Wróblewski. I am also grateful for the insights and assistance of Jadwiga Badowska, Jerzy Dębski, Dorota Grela, Emeryka Iwaszko, Stanisława Iwaszko, Barbara Jarosz, Jarek Mensfelt, Piotr Setkiewicz, Kazimierz Smoleń, and Helena Śliż. Archivists, librarians, and staff at many other institutions were also tremendously helpful: Jan Adamczyk and Marek Sroka in the Slavic Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; the interlibrary loan staff at the University of Vermont; the librarians at the Biblioteka Jagiellońska in Kraków; and Stephen Mize and Edna Friedberg at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Finally, I thank my parents Bill and Arlene Huener for their support over the years, and especially my wife, Marilyn Lucas, for her encouragement, patience, and humor. With gratitude and love I dedicate this book to her.