Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 20th Century - Holocaust

The relationship between Germans and Jews has been a difficult one throughout history. Pol O Dochartaigh examines this relationship, encompassing both German and Jewish perspectives. He also looks at efforts both to remember the Holocaust, and to forget it, movement towards recompense and reparation, and the survival of antisemitism.

Of all victims of Nazi persecution, German Jews had to suffer the Nazi yoke for the longest time. Throughout the Third Reich, they were exposed to anti-Jewish propaganda, discrimination, anti-Semitic laws and increasingly to outrages and offences by non-Jewish Germans. While the International Military Tribunal and the subsequent American Military Tribunals at Nuremberg dealt with a variety of Nazi crimes according to international law, these courts did not consider themselves cognizant in adjudicating wrongdoings against German citizens and those who lost German citizenship based on the...

The following book was translated and published in English: Ewa Kurek, "YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MINE - How Polish Nuns Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children in German-Occupied Poland," foreword by Prof. Jan Karski, New York 1998. She has also contributed articles in English that were published in Polin (Oxford: Institute for Polish Jewish Studies), Embracing the Other (New York University Press) and From Shtetl to Socialism (LondonWashington). Her research on the subject of Polish-Jewish relations in World War II in Poland has been presented at several international academic congresses, including...

Die judische Erfahrung der Vertreibung aus dem vertrauten kulturellen, sprachlichen und sozialen Milieu zur Zeit des Dritten Reichs und die Versuche, unter den Bedingungen des Exils damit umzugehen, konnen in vieler Hinsicht als paradigmatisch fur entsprechende Erfahrungen von Millionen von Fluchtlingen und Migranten in unseren Tagen angesehen werden. In einer im April 2011 vom German Department der Hebraischen Universitat Jerusalem veranstalteten Konferenz wurden an Texten deutsch-judischer Exilanten die verschiedensten Identitatskonstruktionen und Zugehorigkeitsmodelle untersucht, die...

An acclaimed writer on her mother s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia
A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York s Garment District in the 1930s, "My Mother s Wars" is the memoir Lillian Faderman s mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother s past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and encountered the realities of her...