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Against All Odds - Story of Kurt Pick (Hardcover): Jennifer Henderson Against All Odds - Story of Kurt Pick (Hardcover)
Jennifer Henderson
R1,695 Discovery Miles 16 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This story of survival against all odds tells what befell Kurt Pick, an Austrian Jew, after he left his Vienna home and fled the Nazi persecution of his race. He was captured whilst attempting to walk across the German border into Belgium, but escaped and succeeded in being smuggled into Brussels, where he existed in constant fear, freezing cold and near starvation. In the summer of 1939 he was appointed Administrator of a camp for Jewish refugee families at Marneffe, near Brussels, becoming their official link with the outside world. When Germany invaded Belgium, the 600 residents were evacuated and joined the immense tide of refugees clogging the roads. Pick survived the air attacks and reached Avesnes, where he was mistaken for a spy, almost shot, and then nearly lynched by civilians. With the Germans now in occupation, he walked 100 miles back to Brussels. In 1942 he left to become a baker at a boarding school which he found was sheltering many Jews and was being used as a centre for the Resistance. When the Germans raided the school, he bluffed his way out and escaped to Liege. From that point Pick was permanently on the run until the Americans liberated Liege in September 1944. He survived, but was to discover that most of his family had perished.

Microhistories of the Holocaust (Hardcover): Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann Microhistories of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann
R2,893 Discovery Miles 28 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe's Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust (Paperback): Michael A Grodin M D Jewish Medical Resistance in the Holocaust (Paperback)
Michael A Grodin M D
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Faced with infectious diseases, starvation, lack of medicines, lack of clean water, and safe sewage, Jewish physicians practiced medicine under severe conditions in the ghettos and concentration camps of the Holocaust. Despite the odds against them, physicians managed to supply public health education, enforce hygiene protocols, inspect buildings and latrines, enact quarantine, and perform triage. Many gave their lives to help fellow prisoners. Based on archival materials and featuring memoirs of Holocaust survivors, this volume offers a rich array of both tragic and inspiring studies of the sanctification of life as practiced by Jewish medical professionals. More than simply a medical story, these histories represent the finest exemplification of a humanist moral imperative during a dark hour of recent history.

Return - Holocaust Survivors and Dutch Anti-Semitism (Hardcover): Dienke Hondius Return - Holocaust Survivors and Dutch Anti-Semitism (Hardcover)
Dienke Hondius
R1,887 Discovery Miles 18 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While the Netherlands had often been thought of as a champion of racial and ethnic tolerance before and during the Second World War, more than 75% of Dutch Jews were killed and those returning after the war were met with subtle but tough anti-Jewish sentiments as they tried to reclaim their former lives. For most survivors, the negative reactions were unexpected and shocking. Before the war, Dutch Jews had become part of the fabric of Dutch life and society, so the obstacles they faced upon their return were particularly painful and difficult to handle. The sobering picture presented in this book, based on research in archives, survivor's memoirs, and interviews with survivors, examines and chronicles the experiences of repatriated Jews in the Netherlands and sheds light on the continuing uneasiness and sensitivities between Jews and non-Jews there today. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, survivors returned to their home countries not knowing what to expect. In the Netherlands, considered a more tolerant nation, returnees wondered how they would be received by their neighbors; what had happened to their homes, their businesses, and their possessions; and whether or not they would be welcomed back to their jobs or their schools. The answers to many of these questions are now more important than ever, as claims for restitution continue to be made. Hondius shows that survivors returning to the Netherlands were met with a revival in anti-Semitism around the issue of liberation and that many were forced to create two memories of the time: one around the rejoicing and displays of triumph that took place in public and the other around the secret discrimination and cruelty, dealt subtly, inthe private arenas of everyday life. The blinding effect of a long history of generally good Jewish/non-Jewish relations turns out to be a most tragic aspect of the history of the Holocaust and the Netherlands.

Dubossary Memorial Yizkor Book (Dubasari, Moldova) - Translation of Dubossary; Sefer Zikaron (Hardcover): Y Rubin Dubossary Memorial Yizkor Book (Dubasari, Moldova) - Translation of Dubossary; Sefer Zikaron (Hardcover)
Y Rubin; Edited by Sarah Faerman; Contributions by Sheldon Lipsky
R1,054 Discovery Miles 10 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Narrating War in Peace - The Spanish Civil War in the Transition and Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Katherine O. Stafford Narrating War in Peace - The Spanish Civil War in the Transition and Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Katherine O. Stafford
R2,817 R1,782 Discovery Miles 17 820 Save R1,035 (37%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Through case studies of prominent cultural products, this book takes a longitudinal approach to the influence and conceptualization of the Civil War in democratic Spain. Stafford explores the stories told about the war during the transition to democracy and how these narratives have morphed in light of the polemics about historical memory.

Wysokie-Mazowieckie - Memorial Book (Hardcover): I Rubin Wysokie-Mazowieckie - Memorial Book (Hardcover)
I Rubin; Cover design or artwork by Rachel Kolokoff Hopper; Index compiled by Jonathan Wind
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War - Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline (Hardcover): S. Faber Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War - Hispanophilia, Commitment, and Discipline (Hardcover)
S. Faber
R1,477 Discovery Miles 14 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What do you do when a beloved foreign country plunges into civil war? And how do you square your political views on that war with the demands of scholarly objectivity? In this book, Sebastiaan Faber assesses the long-term impact of the Spanish Civil War on Hispanic Studies as an academic field in the United States and Great Britain. Combining institutional history with biography, the book gives a compelling account of the dilemmas that the war posed for four Hispanists who turned their love of Spain into their life's work.

The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (Hardcover): Erin McGlothlin The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction (Hardcover)
Erin McGlothlin
R2,605 Discovery Miles 26 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction examines texts that portray the inner experience of Holocaust perpetrators and thus transform them from archetypes of evil into complex psychological and moral subjects. Employing relevant methodological tools of narrative theory, Erin McGlothlin analyzes these unsettling depictions, which manifest a certain tension regarding the ethics of representation and identification. Such works, she asserts, endeavor to make transparent the mindset of their violent subjects, yet at the same time they also invariably contrive to obfuscate in part its disquieting character. The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction contains two parts. The first focuses on portraits of real-life perpetrators in nonfictional interviews and analyses from the 1960s and 1970s. These works provide a nuanced perspective on the mentality of the people who implemented the Holocaust via the interventional role of the interviewer or interpreter in the perpetrators' performances of self-disclosure. In part two, McGlothlin investigates more recent fictional texts that imagine the perspective of their invented perpetrator-narrators. Such works draw readers directly into the perpetrator's experience and at the same time impede their access to the perpetrator's consciousness by retarding their affective connection. Demonstrating that recent fiction featuring perpetrators as narrators employs strategies derived from earlier nonfictional portrayals, McGlothlin establishes not only a historical connection between these two groups of texts, whereby nonfictional engagement with real-life perpetrators gradually gives way to fictional exploration, but also a structural and aesthetic one. The book bespeaks new modes of engagement with ethically fraught questions raised by our increasing willingness to consider the events of the Holocaust from the perspective of the perpetrator. Students, scholars, and readers of Holocaust studies and literary criticism will appreciate this closer look at a historically taboo topic.

Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education (Hardcover, New): M. Gray Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education (Hardcover, New)
M. Gray
R1,719 Discovery Miles 17 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Holocaust education is a controversial and rapidly evolving field. This book, which critically analyses the very latest research, discusses a number of the most important debates which are emerging within it. Adopting a truly global perspective, it explores both teachers' and students' levels of Holocaust knowledge as well as their attitudes and approaches towards the subject.

Holocaust Literature of the Second Generation (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): M. Vaul-Grimwood Holocaust Literature of the Second Generation (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
M. Vaul-Grimwood
R1,452 Discovery Miles 14 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Exploring five key texts from the emerging canon of second generation writing, this exciting new study" "brings together theories of autobiography, trauma, and fantasy to understand the how traumatic family histories are represented. In doing so, it demonstrates the continuing impact of familial and community Holocaust trauma, and the need for a precise, clearly developed theoretical framework in which to situate these works. This book will appeal to final year undergraduates and postgraduate students, as well as scholars in literary and Holocaust-related fields, and an audience with personal and professional interests in the 'second generation'.

Hungary in the Cold War (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): Laszlo Borhi Hungary in the Cold War (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
Laszlo Borhi
R2,141 Discovery Miles 21 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on new archival evidence, examines Soviet Empire building in Hungary and the American response to it.

The Demise of Yugoslavia - A Political Memoir (Paperback): Stipe Mesic The Demise of Yugoslavia - A Political Memoir (Paperback)
Stipe Mesic
R2,360 Discovery Miles 23 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The memoir of Stipe Mesic which anatyzes events,personalities and motivations inside Yugoslavia and its former nations, as well as in the international arena.

The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism - Polish-Jewish Relations Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Janine Holc The Politics of Trauma and Memory Activism - Polish-Jewish Relations Today (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Janine Holc
R1,709 Discovery Miles 17 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book analyses four case studies of Holocaust memory activism in Poland, contextualized within recent debates about Polish-Jewish relations and approached through a theoretical framework informed by critical theory. Three cases are advocacy groups, each located in a different region of Poland-Lublin, Krakow, and Sejny-and each group is presented with attention to the local context and specific dynamics of its vision and strategy. The fourth case study is the state, which has emerged as a powerful memory actor. Using research based on extensive fieldwork, including interviews and direct observation, the author argues that memory activism must grapple with emotional attachments to identity if it is to move beyond a reconciliation paradigm. Drawing on works from semiotics and critical trauma studies, the volume analyzes the assumptions each memory actor makes about three dimensions of Holocaust memory: 1) the relationship of the individual to Polish national identity; 2) the possibility of a reconciled Polish-Jewish history; and 3) the assignment of traumatic suffering to a particular group or event.

An Archive of the Catastrophe - The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (Hardcover): Jennifer Cazenave An Archive of the Catastrophe - The Unused Footage of Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (Hardcover)
Jennifer Cazenave
R2,112 Discovery Miles 21 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Against Their Will - The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR (Paperback): Pavel Polian Against Their Will - The History and Geography of Forced Migrations in the USSR (Paperback)
Pavel Polian
R855 Discovery Miles 8 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During his reign over the former Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin oversaw the forced resettlement of six million people -- a maniacal passion that he used for social engineering. The Soviets were not the first to thrust resettlement on its population -- a major characteristic of totalitarian systems -- but in terms of sheer numbers, technologies used to deport people and the lawlessness which accompanied it, Stalin's process was the most notable. Six million people of different social, ethnic, and professions were resettled before Stalin's death. Even today, the aftermath of such deportations largely predetermines events which take place in the northern Caucasus, Crimea, the Baltic republics, Moldavia, and western Ukraine. Polian's volume is the first attempt to comprehensively examine the history of forced and semivoluntary population movements within or organized by the Soviet Union. Contents range from the early 1920s to the rehabilitation of repressed nationalities in the 1990s dealing with internal (kulaks, ethnic and political deportations) and international forced migrations (German internees and occupied territories). An abundance of facts, figures, tables, maps, and an exhaustively-detailed annex will serve as important sources for further researches.

A World Without Jews - The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Paperback): Alon Confino A World Without Jews - The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide (Paperback)
Alon Confino
R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A groundbreaking reexamination of the Holocaust and of how Germans understood their genocidal project Why exactly did the Nazis burn the Hebrew Bible everywhere in Germany on November 9, 1938? The perplexing event has not been adequately accounted for by historians in their large-scale assessments of how and why the Holocaust occurred. In this gripping new analysis, Alon Confino draws on an array of archives across three continents to propose a penetrating new assessment of one of the central moral problems of the twentieth century. To a surprising extent, Confino demonstrates, the mass murder of Jews during the war years was powerfully anticipated in the culture of the prewar years. The author shifts his focus away from the debates over what the Germans did or did not know about the Holocaust and explores instead how Germans came to conceive of the idea of a Germany without Jews. He traces the stories the Nazis told themselves-where they came from and where they were heading-and how those stories led to the conclusion that Jews must be eradicated in order for the new Nazi civilization to arise. The creation of this new empire required that Jews and Judaism be erased from Christian history, and this was the inspiration-and justification-for Kristallnacht. As Germans imagined a future world without Jews, persecution and extermination became imaginable, and even justifiable.

Land of Many Bridges - My Father's Story (Hardcover): Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz Land of Many Bridges - My Father's Story (Hardcover)
Bela Ruth Samuel Tenenholtz
R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Filming the End of the Holocaust - Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Hardcover):... Filming the End of the Holocaust - Allied Documentaries, Nuremberg and the Liberation of the Concentration Camps (Hardcover)
John J. Michalczyk
R4,262 Discovery Miles 42 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Filming the End of the Holocaust considers how the US Government commissioned the US Signal Corps and other filmmakers to document the horrors of the concentration camps during the April-May 1945 liberation. The evidence of the Nazis' genocidal actions amassed in these films, some of them made by Hollywood luminaries such as John Ford and Billy Wilder, would go on to have a major impact at the Nuremberg Trials; they helped to indict Nazi officials as the judges witnessed scenes of torture, human experimentation and extermination of Jews and non-Jews in the gas chambers and crematoria. These films, some produced by the Soviets, were integral to the war crime trials that followed the Holocaust and the Second World War, and this book provides a thorough, close analysis of the footage in these films and their historical significance. Using research carried out at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, the US National Archives and the film collection at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University, this book explores the rationale for filming the atrocities and their use in the subsequent trials of Nazi officials in greater detail than anything previously published. Including an extensive bibliography and filmography, Filming the End of the Holocaust is an important text for scholars and students of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

Matters of Testimony - Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (Hardcover): Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams Matters of Testimony - Interpreting the Scrolls of Auschwitz (Hardcover)
Nicholas Chare, Dominic Williams
R2,676 Discovery Miles 26 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1944, members of the Sonderkommando-the "special squads," composed almost exclusively of Jewish prisoners, who ensured the smooth operation of the gas chambers and had firsthand knowledge of the extermination process-buried on the grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau a series of remarkable eyewitness accounts of Nazi genocide. This careful and penetrating study examines anew these "Scrolls of Auschwitz," which were gradually recovered, in damaged and fragmentary form, in the years following the camp's liberation. It painstakingly reconstructs their historical context and textual content, revealing complex literary works that resist narrow moral judgment and engage difficult questions about the limits of testimony.

The Germans and the Holocaust - Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews (Hardcover): Susanna Schrafstetter,... The Germans and the Holocaust - Popular Responses to the Persecution and Murder of the Jews (Hardcover)
Susanna Schrafstetter, Alan E. Steinweis
R2,665 Discovery Miles 26 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did "ordinary" Germans know about the subjugation and mass murder of the Jews, when did they know it, and how did they respond collectively and as individuals? This compact volume brings together six historical investigations into the subject from leading scholars employing newly accessible and previously underexploited evidence. Ranging from the roots of popular anti-Semitism to the complex motivations of Germans who hid Jews, these studies illuminate some of the most difficult questions in Holocaust historiography, supplemented with an array of fascinating primary source materials.

Topographies of Suffering - Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice (Hardcover): Jessica Rapson Topographies of Suffering - Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice (Hardcover)
Jessica Rapson
R2,680 Discovery Miles 26 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Commentary on memorials to the Holocaust has been plagued with a sense of "monument fatigue", a feeling that landscape settings and national spaces provide little opportunity for meaningful engagement between present visitors and past victims. This book examines the Holocaust via three sites of murder by the Nazis: the former concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany; the mass grave at Babi Yar, Ukraine; and the razed village of Lidice, Czech Republic. Bringing together recent scholarship from cultural memory and cultural geography, the author focuses on the way these violent histories are remembered, allowing these sites to emerge as dynamic transcultural landscapes of encounter in which difficult pasts can be represented and comprehended in the present. This leads to an examination of the role of the environment, or, more particularly, the ways in which the natural environment, co-opted in the process of killing, becomes a medium for remembrance.

The Forgers - The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation (Paperback): Roger Moorhouse The Forgers - The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation (Paperback)
Roger Moorhouse
R390 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R82 (21%) Ships in 5 - 7 working days
Julius Streicher - Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer (Paperback, 1st Cooper Square Press ed):... Julius Streicher - Nazi Editor of the Notorious Anti-semitic Newspaper Der Sturmer (Paperback, 1st Cooper Square Press ed)
Randall Bytwerk
R364 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Nazis put a remarkable amount of effort into anti-Semitic propaganda, intending to bring ordinary Germans around to the destructive ideology of the Nazi party. Julius Streicher (1885-1946) spearheaded many of these efforts, publishing anti-Semitic articles and cartoons in his weekly newspaper, Der Sturmer, the most widely read paper in the Third Reich. Streicher won the close personal friendship of Hitler and Himmler, and drew deserved attacks from the world press. Bytwerk's biography examines Streicher's use of propaganda techniques, and the hate literature towards Jews that continued to appear after his death, bearing his influence.

Uprising in East Germany 1953 - The Cold War, the German Question, and the First Major Upheaval behind the Iron Curtain... Uprising in East Germany 1953 - The Cold War, the German Question, and the First Major Upheaval behind the Iron Curtain (Hardcover)
Christian F. Ostermann, Malcolm Byrne
R1,060 R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Save R77 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The volume is the first documented account of this early Cold War crisis from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Based on the recent unprecedented access to the once-closed archives of several member states of the Warsaw Pact, this collection of primary-source documents presents one of the most notorious events of post-war European history.

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