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#1 New York Times BestsellerEdith Hahn was an outspoken young woman
in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a
slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she
would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of
a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There
she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with
her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that
she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.In
wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost
paralyzing fear. She tells how German officials casually questioned
the lineage of her parents; how during childbirth she refused all
painkillers, afraid that in an altered state of mind she might
reveal something of her past; and how, after her husband was
captured by the Soviets, she was bombed out of her house and had to
hide while drunken Russian soldiers raped women on the
street.Despite the risk it posed to her life, Edith created a
remarkable record of survival. She saved every document, as well as
photographs she took inside labor camps. Now part of the permanent
collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.,
these hundreds of documents, several of which are included in this
volume, form the fabric of a gripping new chapter in the history of
the Holocaust--complex, troubling, and ultimately triumphant.
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Chaim Bronshtain; Translated by Neil H Tannebaum; Abraham Weissbrod
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Historians have long noted that Jews often appear at the storm
center of European history. Nowhere is this more true than when
dealing with the tumultuous years between the Nazi seizure of power
in Germany on January 30, 1933 and the proclamation of the State of
Israel on May 14, 1948. Yet, the events of Jewish history must also
be viewed within the broader contexts of European, American, and
global history. Spanning sixteen years of destruction and rebirth,
A World in Turmoil is the first book of its kind, an integrated
chronology which attempts to provide the researcher with clear and
concise data describing the events as they unfolded. From the
murder pits of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, to the battlefields in
all the major theatres of operation, to the home fronts of all the
major and minor combatants, A World in Turmoil covers a broad
spectrum of events. Although major events throughout the world are
noted, the volume concentrates on events in Europe, the Middle
East, and the Americas. While the volume deals primarily with
politics, significant social and intellectual trends are woven into
the chronology. Augmented by an introductory essay and postscript
to help place events in their historical context, by a
bibliography, and by name, place, and subject indexes, the volume
provides scholars and researchers alike a basic reference tool on
sixteen of the most important years in modern history.
A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring
hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. An important read. The
Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made
by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945.
Peter and his parents set out from a small Hungarian town,
travelling through Austria and then Germany together. Along the
way, unforgettable images of adventure flash one after another:
sleeping in a tent and then under the sky, discovering a disused
brick factory, catching butterflies in the meadows - and as Peter
realises that this adventure is really a nightmare - watching bombs
falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, learning maths from his
mother in Belsen. All this is drawn against a background of terror,
starvation, infection and, inevitably, death, before Peter and his
mother can return home. Professor Peter Lantos is a Fellow of the
Academy of Medical Sciences and in his previous life was an
internationally renowned clinical neuroscientist. His memoir,
Parallel Lines (Arcadia Books, 2006) was translated into Hungarian,
German and Italian. Closed Horizon (Arcadia, 2012) was his first
novel. Peter was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2020 for
'services to Holocaust education and awareness'. He is one of the
last of the generation of survivors and this - his first book for
children - will serve as a testimony to his experience. Peter lives
in London.
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.
Mimi Rubin had fond memories of growing up in Novy Bohumin,
Czechoslovakia, a place that ten thousand people called home. It
was a tranquil town until September 1, 1939, when the German army
invaded the city. From that day forward, eighteen-yearold Mimi
would face some of the harshest moments of her life.
This memoir follows Mimi's story-from her idyllic life in Novy
Bohumin before the invasion, to being transported to a Jewish
ghetto, to living in three different German concentration camps,
and finally, to liberation. It tells of the heartbreaking loss of
her parents, grandmother, and countless other friends and
relatives. It tells of the tempered joys of being reunited with her
sister and of finding love, marrying, and raising a family.
A compelling firsthand account, "Mimi of Novy Bohumin,
Czechoslovakia: A Young Woman's Survival of the Holocaust" weaves
the personal, yet horrifying, details of Mimi's experience with
historical facts about this era in history. This story helps keep
alive the memory of the millions of innocent men, women, and
children who died in the German concentration camps during the
1930s and 1940s.
For centuries Jewish shtetls were an active part of Belarusian
life; today, they are gone. The Belarusian Shtetl is a landmark
volume which offers, for the first time in English, an illuminating
look at the shtetls' histories, the lives lived and lost in them,
and the memories, records, and physical traces of these communities
that remain today. Since 2012, under the auspices of the Sefer
Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization, teams of
scholars and students from many different disciplines have returned
to the sites of former Jewish shtetls in Belarus to reconstruct
their past. These researchers have interviewed a wide range of both
Jews and non-Jews to find and document traces of Shtetl history, to
gain insights into community memories, and to discover surviving
markers of identity and ethnic affiliation. In the process, they
have also unearthed evidence from old cemeteries and prewar houses
and the stories behind memorials erected for Holocaust victims.
Drawing on the wealth of information these researchers have
gathered, The Belarusian Shtetl creates compelling and richly
textured portraits of the histories and everyday lives of each
shtetl. Important for scholars and accessible to the public, these
portraits set out to return the Jewish shtetls to their rightful
places of prominence in the histories and legacies of Belarus.
Between 1941 and 1945, in one of the more curious episodes of
racial politics during the Second World War, a small number of Jews
were granted the rights of Aryan citizens in the Independent State
of Croatia by the pro-Nazi Utasha regime. This study seeks to
explain how these exemptions from Ustasha racial laws came to be,
and in particular how they were justified by the race theory of the
time. Author Nevenko Bartulin explores these questions within the
broader histories of anti-Semitism, nationalism, and race in
Croatia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, tracing
Croatian Jews' troubled journey from "Croats of the Mosaic faith"
before World War II to their eventual rejection as racial aliens by
the Utasha movement.
First English translation of the memoirs of Austrian Romani
Holocaust survivor, writer, visual artist, musician, and activist
Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), along with poems, an interview,
historical photos, and reproductions of her artworks. "Is this the
whole world?" This question begins the first of three memoirs by
Austrian Romani writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija
Stojka (1933-2013), told from her perspective as a child interned
in three Nazi concentration camps from age nine to twelve. Written
by a child survivor much later in life, the memoirs offer insights
into the nexus of narrative and extreme trauma, expressing the full
spectrum of human emotions: fear and sorrow at losing loved ones;
joy and relief when reconnecting with family and friends; desire to
preserve some memories while attempting to erase others; horror at
acts of genocide, and hope arising from dreams of survival. In
addition to annotated translations of the three memoirs, the book
includes two of Stojka's poems and an interview by Karin Berger,
editor of the original editions of Stojka's memoirs, as well as
color reproductions of several of her artworks and historical
photographs. An introduction contextualizes her works within Romani
history and culture, and a glossary informs the reader about the
"concentrationary universe." Because the memoirs show how Stojka
navigated male-dominated postwar Austrian culture, generally
discriminatory to Roma, and the patriarchal aspects of Romani
culture itself, the book is a contribution not only to Holocaust
Studies but also to Austrian Studies, Romani Studies, and Women's
and Gender Studies.
History, Trauma and Shame provides an in-depth examination of the
sustained dialogue about the past between children of Holocaust
survivors and descendants of families whose parents were either
directly or indirectly involved in Nazi crimes. Taking an
autobiographical narrative perspective, the chapters in the book
explore the intersection of history, trauma and shame, and how
change and transformation unfolds over time. The analyses of the
encounters described in the book provides a close examination of
the process of dialogue among members of The Study Group on
Intergenerational Consequences of the Holocaust (PAKH), exploring
how Holocaust trauma lives in the 'everyday' lives of descendants
of survivors. It goes to the heart of the issues at the forefront
of contemporary transnational debates about building relationships
of trust and reconciliation in societies with a history of genocide
and mass political violence. This book will be great interest for
academics, researchers and postgraduate students engaged in the
study of social psychology, Holocaust or genocide studies, cultural
studies, reconciliation studies, historical trauma and
peacebuilding. It will also appeal to clinical psychologists,
psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, as well as upper-level
undergraduate students interested in the above areas.
Invisible Ink is the story of Guy Stern's remarkable life. This is
not a Holocaust memoir; however, Stern makes it clear that the
horrors of the Holocaust and his remarkable escape from Nazi
Germany created the central driving force for the rest of his life.
Stern gives much credit to his father's profound cautionary words,
"You have to be like invisible ink. You will leave traces of your
existence when, in better times, we can emerge again and show
ourselves as the individuals we are." Stern carried these words and
their psychological impact for much of his life, shaping himself
around them, until his emergence as someone who would be visible to
thousands over the years. This book is divided into thirteen
chapters, each marking a pivotal moment in Stern's life. His story
begins with Stern's parents-"the two met, or else this chronicle
would not have seen the light of day (nor me, for that matter)."
Then, in 1933, the Nazis come to power, ushering in a fiery and
destructive timeline that Stern recollects by exact dates and calls
"the end of [his] childhood and adolescence." Through a series of
fortunate occurrences, Stern immigrated to the United States at the
tender age of fifteen. While attending St. Louis University, Stern
was drafted into the U.S. Army and soon found himself selected,
along with other German-speaking immigrants, for a special military
intelligence unit that would come to be known as the Ritchie Boys
(named so because their training took place at Ft. Ritchie, MD).
Their primary job was to interrogate Nazi prisoners, often on the
front lines. Although his family did not survive the war (the
details of which the reader is spared), Stern did. He has gone on
to have a long and illustrious career as a scholar, author, husband
and father, mentor, decorated veteran, and friend. Invisible Ink is
a story that will have a lasting impact. If one can name a singular
characteristic that gives Stern strength time after time, it is his
resolute determination to persevere. To that end Stern's memoir
provides hope, strength, and graciousness in times of uncertainty.
'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe
Sands Decades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to
uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where
his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he
recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and
understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape
of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an
exceptional, often moving book. Wasserstein traces the arc of
history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as
armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes and Muscovites rampaged through
the region. In the Age of Enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy
Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious
daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and
serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec
developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of
Poles, Ukrainians and Jews. In 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years
of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national
antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in
circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserstein. After the war
the Poles were expelled and the town dwindled into a border
outpost. Today, the storm of history once again rains down on
Krakowiec as hordes of refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine
to Poland. At the beginning and end of the book we encounter
Wasserstein's own family, especially his grandfather Berl. In their
lives and the many others Wasserstein has rediscovered, the people
of Krakowiec become a prism through which we can feel the shocking
immediacy of history. Original in conception and brilliantly
achieved, A Small Town in Ukraine is a masterpiece of recovery and
insight.
The extraordinary experiences of ordinary people-their suffering
and their unimaginable bravery-are the subject of Judy Glickman
Lauder's remarkable photographs. Beyond the Shadows responds to the
world's looking the other way as the Nazis took power and their
hate-fueled nationalism steadily turned to mass murder. In the
context of the horror of the Holocaust, it also tells the uplifting
story of how the citizens and leadership of Denmark, under
occupation and at tremendous risk to themselves, defied the Third
Reich to transport the country's Jews to safety in Sweden. Over the
past thirty years, Glickman Lauder has captured the intensity of
death camps in Germany, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, in dark and
expressive photographs, telling of a world turned upside down, and,
in contrast, the redemptive and uplifting story of the "Danish
exception." Including texts by Holocaust scholars Michael Berenbaum
and Judith S. Goldstein, and a previously unpublished original text
by survivor Elie Wiesel, Beyond the Shadows demonstrates
passionately what hate can lead to, and what can be done to stand
in its path. "This is photography and storytelling for our times,
about what hate leads to, and how we can stand up to it. Beyond the
Shadows is powerful and revealing, and sharply relevant to all of
us who believe in the human family." - Sir Elton John
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