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This is the first graphic novel adaptation of Lazarillo de Tormes,
an anonymous sixteenth-century work that is credited with founding
the literary genre of the picaresque novel. This genre includes not
only works by Spanish authors like Miguel de Cervantes but also
famous novels in English and American literature featuring the
"anti-hero." This translated and modern retelling of Lazarillo de
Tormes offers a new approach to old questions about a book that has
puzzled readers and critics alike for centuries. Who was its
mysterious author? Why did the Inquisition forbid this seemingly
harmless book? Who read the book and how was it understood? These
and other questions are recreated in the graphic novel, offering a
broader vision of the fortunes and adversities of a book that
against all odds became a literary classic.
The Holocaust: The Basics is a concise introduction to the study of
this seismic event in mid twentieth-century human history. The book
takes an original approach as both a narrative and thematic
introduction to the topic, and provides a core foundation for
readers embarking upon their own study. It examines a range of
perspectives and subjects surrounding the Holocaust, including: the
perpetrators of the Holocaust the victims resistance to the
Holocaust liberation legacies and survivors' memories of the
Holocaust. Suppported by a chronology, glossary, questions for
discussion, and boxed case studies that focus the reader's thoughts
and develop their appreciation of the subjects considered more
broadly, The Holocaust: The Basics is the ideal introduction to
this controversial and widely debated topic for both students and
the more general reader.
Originally published in 1969, this book discusses the many factors
which atomised German society from 1870 onwards and thus assisted
Nazi evil, and it shows that Hitler and Nazism were mere phenomena
of a mass age. The author wrote with the twin qualifications as
historian and survivor of the camps. To have lived through it and
then dissect it as a scholar is an astonishing achievement and it
is this achievement that this book records.
The Archaeology of the Spanish Civil War offers the first
comprehensive account of the Spanish Civil War from an
archaeological perspective, providing an alternative narrative on
one of the most important conflicts of the twentieth century,
widely seen as a prelude to the Second World War. Between 1936 and
1939, totalitarianism and democracy, fascism and revolution clashed
in Spain, while the latest military technologies were being tested,
including strategic bombing and combined arms warfare, and violence
against civilians became widespread. Archaeology, however,
complicates the picture as it brings forgotten actors into play:
obsolete weapons, vernacular architecture, ancient structures (from
Iron Age hillforts to sheepfolds), peasant traditions, and
makeshift arms. By looking at these things, another story of the
war unfolds, one that pays more attention to intimate experiences
and anonymous individuals. Archaeology also helps to clarify
battles, which were often chaotic and only partially documented,
and to understand better the patterns of political violence, whose
effects were literally buried for over 70 years. The narrative
starts with the coup against the Second Spanish Republic on 18 July
1936, follows the massacres and battles that marked the path of the
war, and ends in the early 1950s, when the last forced labor camps
were closed and the anti-Francoist guerrillas suppressed. The book
draws on 20 years of research to bring together perspectives from
battlefield archaeology, archaeologies of internment, and
forensics. It will be of interest to anybody interested in
historical and contemporary archaeology, human rights violations,
modern military history, and negative heritage.
This book is a fictional account of the life of German film and
theatre actor Werner Krauss, eponymous star of the classic silent
film The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. Upon gaining worldwide
recognition in this film, Krauss was co-opted into the Nazi hate
campaign of the 1930s and 1940s. He featured in the vicious
propaganda film Jud Suss, and he was complicit in giving
anti-Semitic performances onstage, most notably as Shylock in
Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice. The book focuses on three
distinct eras in Krauss life: the struggling, exuberant actor of
the 1920s; the philandering pragmatist of the 1930s; and the
elderly, neurotic outcast of the 1940s. Despite his honourable
intentions, Krauss was all-too-often undermined by his inability to
say no to women, alcohol and the egregious Joseph Goebbels. In this
fictional re-imagining of his life, Krauss motives and decisions
are explored in an attempt to discover why he collaborated with the
Nazis in the way that he did, as well as demonstrating the personal
and political consequences of his actions. As someone who was
influenced by the Nazi regime, and, in turn, influential in
perpetuating their message, Krauss story tells the wider story of
the role of the arts and media in Nazi Germany. Extensively
researched, including contemporary news stories, archived film
material, critical essays on Krauss and translated passages from
his autobiography, Das Schauspiel Meines Lebens, this fictional
reconstruction of Krauss life and career is preceded by a
substantive Introduction by the author, setting the novel in the
context of the genre of Holocaust fiction, emulating and
reminiscent of Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin and Thomas
Keneally's Schindler's Ark.
In the wake of the Second World War, how were the Allies to respond
to the enormous crime of the Holocaust? Even in an ideal world, it
would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial.
Nevertheless, an attempt was made to prosecute some. This book
uncovers ten "forgotten trials" of the Holocaust, selected from the
many Nazi trials that have taken place over the course of the last
seven decades. It showcases how perpetrators of the Holocaust were
dealt with in courtrooms around the world, revealing how different
legal systems responded to the horrors of the Holocaust. The book
provides a graphic picture of the genocidal campaign against the
Jews through eyewitness testimony and incriminating documents and
traces how the public memory of the Holocaust was formed over time.
The Holocaust is a pervasive presence in British culture and
society. Schools have been legally required to deliver Holocaust
education, the government helps to fund student visits to
Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum's permanent Holocaust Exhibition
has attracted millions of visitors, and Britain has an annually
commemorated Holocaust Memorial Day. What has prompted this
development, how has it unfolded, and why has it happened now? How
does it relate to Britain's post-war history, its contemporary
concerns, and the wider "globalisation" of Holocaust memory? What
are the multiple shapes that British Holocaust consciousness
assumes and the consequences of their rapid emergence? Why have the
so-called "lessons" of the Holocaust enjoyed such popularity in
Britain? Through analysis of changing engagements with the
Holocaust in political, cultural and memorial landscapes over the
past generation, this book addresses these questions, demonstrating
the complexities of Holocaust consciousness and reflecting on the
contrasting ways that history is used in Britain today.
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Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust This title covers the origins of
anti-Semitism from the nineteenth century, and traces the events
that took place in Germany from 1933 to 1945. The anti-Semitic
views of Hitler are analysed as is the means by which these views
shaped the racial state in the Third Reich. The impact of the
Second World War and the events which led ultimately to the Final
Solution are then assessed. All of these events are also considered
within the wider historiographical debates which have surrounded
this period of history, from questions on who should ultimately
bear the blame, to issues of Holocaust denial.
In this unusual Holocaust memoir, Rhodea Shandler gives a woman's
view of life under the Nazis in Holland. She begins by describing
her early life in a closely knit Jewish family in northern Holland.
There was anti-Semitism, she explains, but it was of a low level,
and the Jews with their strong ties to community managed to live
relatively normal lives. Then everything began to change with
Hitler's rise to power in 1933. Through it all, she tells of life
ongoing and how she became a nursing student in Amsterdam. It was
while she was working in an Amsterdam hospital on 9 May 1940, that
an explosion was heard, and she looked up to watch German
paratroopers landing to take control of the city. Over the next few
years she describes how the community attempts to cope even as Jews
are being deported before their very eyes. Finally in early 1943,
she and her new husband decide that they must go into hiding in the
countryside. With the help of the Underground, they find a "safe"
farm, but their situation changes when Shandler discovers that she
is pregnant. Some of the most moving parts of the story describe
her preparations for the child's birth, even as their "friendly"
family turns against them, fearful of the new dangers a baby will
bring. Then on a bitterly cold day in December 1943 the baby is
born, and Shandler is left with the difficult task of caring for
the child in the midst of continuing Gestapo raids. Shandler's
memoir ends with the family's decision after the war to emigrate to
Canada, and for Shandler to write of her struggle to give birth to
the new.
Book & DVD. This is a unique eye-witness documentary record of
life inside Auschwitz at its full operational peak, as recalled,
with impressive lucidity and matter-of-factness by Wilhelm Brasse,
prisoner no. 3444, who, due to his professional skills, escaped
extermination by becoming a photographer whom the
ever-well-organised Nazis obliged to record photographically the
running of the camp, including such detail as Dr Mengele's infamous
experiments. Wilhelm Brasse was born in 1917 in Zywiec of an
Austrian father and a Polish mother. Before the war Brasse worked
in a photographic studio in Katowice. For refusal to join the
Wehrmacht, he was sent to Auschwitz, where from 1941 to 1945 he
worked in the Identity Service as a photographer. He took tens of
thousands of photographs of prisoners, hundreds of portraits of
SS-men and documented some so-called medical experiments. After the
war ended, he returned to Zywiec where he has been living ever
since. In March 2010 Maria Anna Potocka conducted an interview with
Wilhelm Brasse. The outcome is this book and its edited tales of
the prisoner-cum-chief-photographer of Auschwitz, together with a
film with extracts from the interview. There is an introduction by
the historian Teresa Wontor-Cichy, the academic editor at the
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The book is generously illustrated
with photographs from Wilhelm Brasse's own archives, as well as the
photographic archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Yad
Vashem. The book is published in association with the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland. The publication has been
supported by the following ministries and organizations: The
Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of
Poland.
Janusz Korczak (1879-1942) is one of the legendary figures to
emerge from the Holocaust. A successful pediatrician and well-known
author in his native Warsaw, he gave up a brilliant medical career
to devote himself to the care of orphans. Like so many other Jews,
Korczak was sent into the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation
of Poland. He immediately set up an orphanage for more than two
hundred children. Many of his admirers, Jewish and gentile, offered
to rescue him from the ghetto, but Korczak refused to leave his
small charges. When the Nazis ordered the children to board a train
that was to carry them to the Treblinka death camp, Korczak went
with them, despite the Nazis' offer of special treatment. His
selfless behavior in caring for these children's lives and deaths
has made him beloved throughout the world; he has been honored by
UNESCO and commemorated on postage stamps in both Poland and
Israel. Korczak's grimly inspiring ghetto diary is now available in
paperback for the first time, accompanied by a new introduction by
Betty Jean Lifton, the author of the biography of Korczak.
'A remarkable tale of survival, in which Jewish life in pre-war
Poland and the atrocities of the Holocaust appear through an almost
dreamlike lens of childhood memory' Jeremy Dronfield, bestselling
author of The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz 'Mala's
Cat is fresh, unsentimental and utterly unpredictable... This
memoir, rescued from obscurity by the efforts of Mala Kacenberg's
five children, should be read and cherished as a new, vital
document of a history that must never be allowed to vanish' Julie
Orringer for the New York Times 'It's an account of astounding
courage and resourcefulness . . . The real miracle here is the
vitality of Kacenberg's faith and determination' Mail on Sunday
__________ Alone in a forest with only a cat for company - this is
the deeply moving true story of one little girl's remarkable
survival in the shadow of the Holocaust Growing up in the Polish
village of Tarnogrod, on the fringes of a deep pine forest, Mala
has the happiest childhood anyone could hope for. But, when the
Nazis invade, her beloved village becomes a ghetto and family and
friends are reduced to starvation. Taking matters into her own
hands, she bravely removes her yellow star, and sneaks out to the
surrounding villages for food. On her way back she receives a
smuggled letter from her sister warning her to stay away: her loved
ones have been rounded up for deportation. With only her cat,
Malach, and the strength of the stories taught by her family, she
must flee into the forest. Malach becomes her family, her only
respite from loneliness, a guide and reminder to stay hopeful even
in the darkness. With her guardian angel by her side, Mala must
find a way to navigate the dangerous forests, outwit German
soldiers and hostile villagers, to survive, against all the odds.
__________ 'It's an account of astounding courage and
resourcefulness . . . The real miracle here is the vitality of
Kacenberg's faith and determination' Mail on Sunday
With great immediacy, the diaries of Willy Cohn, a Jew and a Social
Democrat, show how the process of marginalization under the Nazis
unfolded within the vibrant Jewish community of Breslau--until that
community was destroyed in 1941. Cohn documents how difficult it
was to understand precisely what was happening, even as people were
harassed, beaten, and taken off to concentration camps. He
chronicles the efforts of the community to maintain some semblance
of normal life at the same time as many made plans to emigrate or
to get their children out.
Cohn and his wife Gertrud were able to get their three oldest
children out of Germany before it was too late. However, burying
himself in his work chronicling the history of the Jews in Germany,
his diaries, and his memoirs, Cohn missed his own chance to escape.
In late 1941, he, Gertrud, and their two young daughters were
deported to Lithuania, where they were shot.
Willy Cohn was a complex individual: an Orthodox Jew and a
socialist; an ardent Zionist and a staunch German patriot; a
realist but also an idealist often unable to cope with reality; a
democrat and an admirer of certain Nazi policies and of their
resoluteness. These contradictions and the wealth of detail that
poured from his pen give us a unique view of those disorienting and
frightening times in Germany.
'An unrivalled picture of the rumours, suspicions and treachery of
civil war' Antony Beevor Every line of serious work that I have
written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly,
against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I
understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a
militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to
Catalonia. Here he brings to bear all the force of his humanity,
passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright
hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the
revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, the courage of ordinary
Spanish men and women he fought alongside, the terror and confusion
of the front, his near-fatal bullet wound and the vicious treachery
of his supposed allies. A firsthand account of the brutal
conditions of the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell's Homage to
Catalonia includes an introduction by Julian Symons.
"The Holocaust in Italian Culture, 1944-2010" is the first major
study of how postwar Italy confronted, or failed to confront, the
Holocaust. Fascist Italy was the model for Nazi Germany, and
Mussolini was Hitler's prime ally in the Second World War. But
Italy also became a theater of war and a victim of Nazi persecution
after 1943, as resistance, collaboration, and civil war raged. Many
thousands of Italians--Jews and others--were deported to
concentration camps throughout Europe. After the war, Italian
culture produced a vast array of stories, images, and debate
through which it came to terms with the Holocaust's difficult
legacy. Gordon probes a rich range of cultural material as he
paints a picture of this shared encounter with the darkest moment
of twentieth-century history. His book explores aspects of Italian
national identity and memory, offering a new model for analyzing
the interactions between national and international images of the
Holocaust.
Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl converted the horrors he
experienced in a German concentration camp into the pioneering
philosophy he called logotherapy. Unlike Freud's "will to pleasure"
and Adler's "will to power," Frankl based logotherapy on three
things: the freedom of will, the will to meaning, and the meaning
of life. By presenting three methodological concepts, Frankl shows
how we can all reinvigorate our experiences and tie them to will
and power.
Originally published in 1988 and compiling Frankl's speeches on
logotherapy, "The Will to Meaning" is regarded as a seminal work of
behavior therapy.
"The definitive study of the topic." --Prof. Antony Polonsky,
Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and
Chief Historian, POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. The
incredible story of underground resistance among the prisoners at
the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. When the Germans opened
Auschwitz in June 1940, it was a concentration camp for political
prisoners, who were told on arrival that they would live no longer
than three months--expanding two years later to also become a death
camp for Jews. Underground resistance appeared at Auschwitz very
quickly, spearheaded in 1940 by one of the bravest men ever to
live, Polish army officer Captain Witold Pilecki. Jozef Garlinski
traces the evolution and operations of the principal resistance
organizations among the prisoners (including communist as well as
non-communist groups). He delves into the relationships among these
groups, as well as their relationships with the various political
and multinational factions in the prisoner population, including
both male and female, and with the underground outside the camp. He
describes their efforts against the brutal SS men and informers. In
parallel, he documents the growth and evolution of Auschwitz
itself, and the horrors of the industrialized death factory for
Jews created by the Germans. First published in English in 1975,
but out of print for decades, this seminal book is now being
released in a new 2nd edition with more than 200 photos and maps,
and a new introduction by Prof. Antony Polonsky, Emeritus Professor
of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University, and Chief Historian,
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. . Garlinski, a member
of the Polish underground during WWII, was himself a prisoner at
Auschwitz.With more than 200 photos and maps, five Appendices,
extensive Bibliography and detailed Indexes.
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