Excerpt: [Albert] Barry's work is important, scholars say, because it is helping to chronicle a way of life that all but died with the Holocaust - and that hasn't received the considerable attention and study as that 11-year period [did]."

"We've spent a lot of time talking about how Jews died," said Henry Abramson, an associate professor of history at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. "Now we're beginning to focus on how Jews lived."