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

Lilo was a child during the Holocaust. Now that the older generation of Holocaust survivors, such as her parents, are just about gone, she and others like her are the last survivors of the Holocaust the final witnesses to the horrors that Hitler perpetrated on the Jewish people. After Lilo attended a workshop given by Hana Greenfield, noted author, lecturer, and Holocaust child survivor, where she spoke about the importance of child survivors sharing their experiences of the Holocaust, Lilo began to compiling her history and experiences. She started speaking to schools and groups, and...

The stories in "Out of Chaos "represent brief or elongated moments, fragments of memory and experience, what the great Holocaust writer Ida Fink called a scrap of time. ""In all, the anthology expresses these survivors memories and reactions to a wide range of experiences as they survived in so many European settings, from Holland, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Poland, and France. The writers recall being on the run between different countries, escaping over mountains, hiding and even sometimes forgetting their Jewish identities in convents and rescuers homes and hovels,...

The illustrated three-volume Geographical Encyclopedia of the Holocaust in Hungary is a definitive, authoritative, and magisterial resource, thorough and exhaustive. It documents and chronicles the wartime fate of the Jewish communities in that country where virulent antisemitism is anything but dead, even today. With scores of detailed maps and hundreds of photographs, this reference work is organized alphabetically by county, each prefaced with a map and a con-textual history describing its Jewish population up to and into 1944.
Entries track the demographic, cultural, and...

Mit der deutschen Besatzung der Staaten West- und Nordeuropas im Fruhjahr 1940 gerieten mehr als eine halbe Million einheimische und gefluchtete Juden unter deutsche Herrschaft. Anders als in Polen versuchten die Deutschen, die nichtjudische Bevolkerung und die Verwaltung fur die Kollaboration bei der Judenverfolgung zu gewinnen - mit unterschiedlichem, aber allmahlich wachsendem Erfolg.

In this epic history of extermination and survival, Timothy Snyder presents a new explanation of the great atrocity of the twentieth century, and reveals the risks that we face in the twenty-first. Based on new sources from eastern Europe and forgotten testimonies from Jewish survivors, Black Earth recounts the mass murder of the Jews as an event that is still close to us, more comprehensible than we would like to think, and thus all the more terrifying.

The Holocaust began in a...

Catastrophic scenarios dominate our contemporary mindset. Catastrophic events and predictions have spurred new interest in re-examining the history of earlier disasters and the social and conceptual resources they have mobilized. The essays gathered in this volume reconsider the history and theory of different catastrophes and their aftermath. The emphasis is on the need to distance this process of reconsideration from previous teleological representations of catastrophes as an endpoint, and to begin considering their "operative" aspects, which unmask the nature of social and political...

Das Generalgouvernement, der ostliche Teil des deutsch besetzten Polen, war der zentrale Tatort des Holocaust. Hier lebten 1941 etwa 2,3 Millionen Juden meist unter katastrophalen Bedingungen in Gettos oder Zwangsarbeitslagern. Der Band dokumentiert Vorbereitung, Planung und Durchfuhrung der Verbrechen, individuellen und kollektiven judischen Widerstand in Gettos und Lagern sowie die Reaktionen bei der polnischen Bevolkerung und im Ausland.

In this provocative work, Alvin H. Rosenfeld contends that the proliferation of books, films, television programs, museums, and public commemorations related to the Holocaust has, perversely, brought about a diminution of its meaning and a denigration of its memory. Investigating a wide range of events and cultural phenomena, such as Ronald Reagan's 1985 visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg, the distortions of Anne Frank's story, and the ways in which the Holocaust has been depicted by such artists and filmmakers as Judy Chicago and Steven Spielberg, Rosenfeld charts the cultural forces...