Jews, Suicide, and the Holocaust

ISBN-13: 9781138589759 / Twarda / 2025 / 216 str.

Mark A. Mengerink

Opis

This accessible study examines the Holocaust’s “forgotten victims” – Jews and other victims who suicided from 1939 to 1945. Using diaries, survivor memoirs, and survivor interviews, the manuscript places suicide victims and their experiences into the traditional Holocaust narrative.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Suicide in the Holocaust Context: Some Considerations  2. Suicide in the Life and Death of the Warsaw Ghetto  3. “I had come to the end of my rope:” Suicide Ideation in Nazi Camps  4. Suicide in Auschwitz  5. By Their Own Hand: Suicide as Resistance to Nazi Persecution?  6. “Whatever his motives and intention, his death did not help us:” Jewish Attitudes Toward Holocaust Suicides.  Conclusion

O autorze

Mark A. Mengerink is Associate Professor of History at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX. His research interests include suicide and the Holocaust, how studying past atrocities impacts scholars’ mental health, and how extreme metal music bands represent history in their music and lyrics.