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

Memory, History, and Responsibility: Reassessments of the Holocaust, Implications for the Future contains the highlights from the ninth "Lessons and Legacies" conference. The conference, held during the height of the genocide in Darfur, sought to reexamine how the darkness of the Holocaust continues to shadow human existence more than sixty years after World War II left the Third Reich in ruins.

The collection opens with Saul Friedlander s call for interdisciplinary approaches to Holocaust research. The essays that follow draw on the latest methodologies in the fields of...

By the spring of 1947, less than two years after Nazi Germany's defeat, some 250,000 Jewish refugees remained in the displaced persons camps of Germany, Italy, and Austria. Yet many Jews did not know whether to return to their home countries or move on to someplace else. As a result, these stateless displaced persons (DPs) created a unique space for political, cultural, and social rebirth that was tempered by the complications of overcoming recent trauma. In "We Are Here," editors Avinoam J. Patt and Michael Berkowitz present current research on DPs between the end of the war and the...

Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors. Their weapons were their words. After the Soviet occupation of Kovno, the members of Irgun Brith Zion circulated an underground journal, Nitzotz (Spark), in which they debated Zionist politics and laid plans for postwar settlement in Palestine. When the Kovno Ghetto was destroyed, several contributors to Nitzotz were deported to the German interior, where they were constcripted to slave labor in the satellite camps of Dachau. Against all odds, they did...

On March 15, 1939, as Hitler's army rolled into Prague, Helen Waldstein's father snatched the last exit visa from a distracted clerk and fled with wife and child. Only letters from the rest of their family could follow as the Nazis closed in. Through the war years, letters kept coming to the southern Ontario farm where Helen's small family learned to speak English, to be Canadian farmers, and to forget they were Jewish.

Helen did not notice when the letters stopped coming, but they surfaced intermittently until she couldn't ignore them anymore. Reading the letters changed everything....

Der zweite Band des Handbuchs enthalt mehr als 650 Biographien aus aller Welt von der Spatantike bis zur Gegenwart: Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Theologen, Kunstler, Schriftsteller, Publizisten, Vertreter des Wirtschaftslebens, die ihre Judenfeindschaft offentlich gemacht haben und damit Antijudaismus oder Antisemitismus forderten. Ebenso werden prominente Opfer wie Alfred Dreyfus, Habib Elghanian, Walther Rathenau, Emil Julius Gumbel vorgestellt und Vorkampfer der Aufklarung und Toleranz wie Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing oder Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, die in der Abwehr von...