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

Der in Wien geborene Schriftsteller Emil Alphons Rheinhardt (1889-1945) machte sein Haus im sudfranzosischen Le Lavandou in den 1930er Jahren zu einem gastlichen Treffpunkt des deutschsprachigen Literaturexils. Im besetzten Frankreich wurde Rheinhardt 1943 verhaftet und 1944 ins Konzentrationslager Dachau deportiert, wo er kurz vor der Befreiung starb. Die Historikerin Dominique Lassaigne hat vor einigen Jahren sein verschollen geglaubtes Hafttagebuch gefunden. Rheinhardts Aufzeichnungen aus den Gestapo-Gefangnissen sind Zeugnisse eines lange vergessenen Humanisten, der an die...

Im 5. Band des Handbuchs des Antisemitismus behandeln mehr als 140 Autoren in 330 Artikeln Parteien und Vereine, staatliche Behorden und kirchliche Vereinigungen, Nichtregierungsorganisationen und informelle Gruppierungen, Institute, wissenschaftliche oder soziale Gesellschaften, in deren Programm oder Praxis Judenfeindschaft eine Rolle spielt. Ebenso sind Vereinigungen und Zusammenschlusse, die sich die Bekampfung des Antisemitismus zum Ziel gesetzt haben, in diesem Band zu finden. Judenfeindliche Gruppierungen waren (und sind teilweise noch) der Alldeutsche Verband, Antisemitenbund...

The murder of a third of Europe's Jews by the Nazis is unquestionably the worst catastrophe in the history of contemporary Judaism and a formative event in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Understandably, therefore, the Shoah, written about, analyzed, and given various political interpretations, has shaped public discourse in the history of the State of Israel. The key element of Shoah in the Israeli context is victimhood and as such it has become a source of shame, shrouded in silence and subordinated to the dominant discourse which, resulting from the construction of a...

As millions of people around the world who have read her diary attest, Anne Frank, the most familiar victim of the Holocaust, has a remarkable place in contemporary memory. Anne Frank Unbound looks beyond this young girl's words at the numerous ways people have engaged her life and writing. Apart from officially sanctioned works and organizations, there exists a prodigious amount of cultural production, which encompasses literature, art, music, film, television, blogs, pedagogy, scholarship, religious ritual, and comedy. Created by both artists and amateurs, these responses to Anne Frank...

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...