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German Reparations and the Jewish World - A History of the Claims Conference (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Ronald W. Zweig German Reparations and the Jewish World - A History of the Claims Conference (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Ronald W. Zweig
R4,309 Discovery Miles 43 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

German Reparations and the Jewish World" has become a standard reference work since it was first published. Based extensively on archival sources, the author examines the difficult debate within the Jewish world whether it was possible to reach a material settlement with Germany so soon after Auschwitz. Concentrating on how the money was spent in rebuilding Jewish life, he also analyzes how the reparations payments transformed the relations bteween Israel and the diaspora, and between different Jewish political and ideological groups. This revised and expanded edition includes material on sensitive relief programmes from archives that have only recently been opened to researchers. In a new, extensive introductory essay the author reexamines the reparations, restitution and indemnification processes from the perspective of 50 years later.

Schindler's Listed - The Search for My Father's Lost Gold (Paperback): Mark Biederman Schindler's Listed - The Search for My Father's Lost Gold (Paperback)
Mark Biederman; As told to Randi Biederman
R502 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps. His father survived the war but died when the author was a teenager, leaving him only with the knowledge that he had buried coins somewhere in Poland, and no information about his family. During his quest, Biederman uncovers many interesting and disturbing facts about his father and mother and their families, such as the fact that his father was the third person on Oskar Schindler's list and had a chance meeting with Adolph Hitler, and that his mother was selected as a cook for the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele. The book details the author's quest to unearth his family's past and his father's treasure and continues with his parent's amazing post-war years in Europe and their eventual arrival in North America.

Holocaust Restitution - Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy (Paperback, New Ed): Michael J. Bazyler, Roger P. Alford Holocaust Restitution - Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy (Paperback, New Ed)
Michael J. Bazyler, Roger P. Alford
R690 Discovery Miles 6 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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"Holocaust Restitution compiles a group of essays from leading authorities and participants in the Holocaust restitution movement. This book gathers different voices from across the Holocaust restitution movement and does an ex post facto review of the litigation. Holocaust Restitution presents an up-to-date analysis of the Holocaust restitution movement and presents the drama of Holocaust restitution from the perspective of almost all the major players, including plaintiff counsel, defense counsel, judges, diplomats, administrators, corporate defendants, and Jewish representatives. It also includes outside viewpoints from respected commentators, including historians, academics, and Holocaust survivors. It is remarkably comprehensive, does not shy away from controversy, and thoughtfully reflects on the Holocaust and its implications for future international human rights adjudication."
--"Stanford Journal of International Law"

aHolocaust Restitution compiles a group of essays from leading authorities and participants in the Holocaust restitution movement. This book gathers different voices from across the Holocaust restitution movement and does an ex post facto review of the litigation. Holocaust Restitution presents an up-to-date analysis of the Holocaust restitution movement and presents the drama of Holocaust restitution from the perspective of almost all the major players, including plaintiff counsel, defense counsel, judges, diplomats, administrators, corporate defendants, and Jewish representatives. It also includes outside viewpoints from respected commentators, including historians, academics, and Holocaust survivors.It is remarkably comprehensive, does not shy away from controversy, and thoughtfully reflects on the Holocaust and its implications for future international human rights adjudication.a
--"Stanford Journal of International Law"

"Bazyler and Alford have produced an essential tool for understanding the righteous struggle to win restitution for Holocaust victims and their heirs."
--Richard Z. Chesnoff, author of "Pack of Thieves: How Hitler & Europe Plundered the Jews & Committed The Greatest Theft In History"

"This excellent volume makes a significant contribution both to legal studies and to the history of the Holocaust. The editors deserve special praise for including chapters by Holocaust survivors, assuring that their often-forgotten voices are not lost within the great debate about Holocaust restitution."
--Marilyn J. Harran, Stern Chair in Holocaust History, Chapman University

"An invaluable text for students and scholars as well as a fascinating read for all those concerned with Holocaust and genocide issues in all disciplines and on behalf of all victims."
--Israel W. Charny, President, International Association of Genocide Scholars

"This unique collection is important in bringing together the perspectives of legal practitioners, activists, archivists and historians, negotiators, and survivors. It is remarkably comprehensive. . . . The editors have not shied away from controversy."
--David Cesarani, Research Professor in History, Royal Holloway, University of London

"If there is a 'final frontier' in understanding the Holocaust, it is the assessment of international litigation, compensation, and reparations claims. This extraordinary group ofcontributions thoughtfully reflects on the Holocaust, past and present, as well as what many would call 'imperfect justice.'"
--Stephen Feinstein, Professor of History and Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota

"This collection of essays on Holocaust restitution litigation provides a wonderful overview of the subject. Bazyler and Alford have assembled the 'A list' and the result is a most authoritative and complete treatment."
--Professor William A. Schabas, Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights

Holocaust Restitution is the first volume to present the Holocaust restitution movement directly from the viewpoints of the various parties involved in the campaigns and settlements. Now that the Holocaust restitution claims are closed, this work enjoys the benefits of hindsight to provide a definitive assessment of the movement.

From lawyers and state department officials to survivors and heads of key institutes involved in the negotiations, the volume brings together the central players in the Holocaust restitution movement, both pro and con. The volume examines the claims against European banks and against Germany and Austria relating to forced labor, insurance claims, and looted art claims. It considers their significance, their legacy, and the moral issues involved in seeking and receiving restitution.

Contributors: Roland Bank, Michael Berenbaum, Lee Boyd, Thomas Buergenthal, Monica S. Dugot, Stuart E. Eizenstat, Eric Freedman and Richard Weisberg, Si Frumkin, Peter Hayes, Kai Henning, Roman Kent, Lawrence Kill and Linda Gerstel, Edward R. Korman, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, David A. Lash and Mitchell A. Kamin, Hannah Lessing and FiorentinaAzizi, Burt Neuborne, Owen C. Pell, Morris Ratner and Caryn Becker, Shimon Samuels, E. Randol Schoenberg, William Z. Slany, Howard N. Spiegler, Deborah Sturman, Robert A. Swift, Gideon Taylor, Lothar Ulsamer, Melvyn I. Weiss, Roger M. Witten, Sidney Zabludoff, and Arie Zuckerman.

Dance on the Razor's Edge - Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos (Paperback): Svenja Bethke Dance on the Razor's Edge - Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos (Paperback)
Svenja Bethke; Translated by Sharon Howe
R702 R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Save R121 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Historians have mainly seen the ghettos established by the Nazis in German-occupied Eastern Europe as spaces marked by brutality, tyranny, and the systematic murder of the Jewish population. Drawing on examples from the Warsaw, Lodz, and Vilna ghettos, Dance on the Razor's Edge explores how, in fact, highly improvised legal spheres emerged in these coerced and heterogeneous ghetto communities. Looking at sources from multiple archives and countries, Svenja Bethke investigates how the Jewish Councils, set up on German orders and composed of ghetto inhabitants, formulated new definitions of criminal offenses and established legal institutions on their own initiative, as a desperate attempt to ensure the survival of the ghetto communities. Bethke explores how people under these circumstances tried to make sense of everyday lives that had been turned upside down, bringing with them pre-war notions of justice and morality, and she considers the extent to which this rupture led to new judgments on human behaviour. In doing so, Bethke aims to understand how people attempted to use their very limited scope for action in order to survive. Set against the background of a Holocaust historiography that often still seeks for clear categories of "good" and "bad" behaviours, Dance on the Razor's Edge calls for a new understanding of the ghettos as complex communities in an unprecedented emergency situation.

A History of the Holocaust - From Ideology to Annihilation (Paperback, 5th New edition): Rita Steinhardt Botwinick A History of the Holocaust - From Ideology to Annihilation (Paperback, 5th New edition)
Rita Steinhardt Botwinick
R2,666 Discovery Miles 26 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Examines the causes of the Holocaust and the people involved." Told with scrupulous attention to detail and accuracy, this text provides important background information on Jewish life in Europe, the functions of the hierarchy within the Nazi government, and the psychological foundations of prejudice. Unlike other texts on the subject, "A History of the Holocaust "gives students an idea of just who the victims of the Holocaust were. In fact, the author tells this story from a unique point-of-view, having experienced Nazi Germany as a child. Learning GoalsUpon completing this book readers will be able to:

  • Describe the sequence of events that led to the Holocaust
  • Understand the people that were victims of the Holocaust and the ways they responded to the events as they unfolded
  • Draw their own conclusions about controversial topics related to the Holocaust
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No Past Tense - Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardcover): D.Z. Stone No Past Tense - Love and Survival in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Hardcover)
D.Z. Stone
R1,081 Discovery Miles 10 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Anti-Semitism Revisited - How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hatred (Paperback): Delphine Horvilleur Anti-Semitism Revisited - How the Rabbis Made Sense of Hatred (Paperback)
Delphine Horvilleur; Translated by David Bellos
R262 R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Save R51 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

"Anti-Semitism revisited in a wholly original way" Philippe Sands "Rippling with ideas on every page" Jewish Chronicle "Tackles the issue [of anti-semitism] from the perspective of a country where its manifestations have been more vicious and deadly" Financial Times Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur analyses the phenomenon of anti-semitism as it is viewed by those who endure it and who, through narration and literature, succeed in overcoming it. Jewish texts are replete with treatments of anti-semitism, of this endlessly paradoxical hatred, and of the ways in which Jews are perceived by others. But here, the focus is inverted: Anti-Semitism Revisited explores the hatred of Jews as seen through the lens of the sacred texts, rabbinical tradition and Jewish lore. Delphine Horvilleur gives a voice to those who are too often deprived of one, examining resilience in the face of adversity and the legacy of an ancient hatred that is often misunderstood. An engaging, hopeful and very original examination of anti-semitism: what it means, where it comes from, what are the ancient myths and tropes that are weaponised against Jewish people, and how do we take them apart. Translated from the French by David Bellos

The Betrayal of Anne Frank - A Cold Case Investigation (Standard format, CD): Rosemary Sullivan The Betrayal of Anne Frank - A Cold Case Investigation (Standard format, CD)
Rosemary Sullivan; Read by Julia Whelan
R919 R691 Discovery Miles 6 910 Save R228 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
"If we had wings we would fly to you" - A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941-42 (Paperback): Kiril Feferman "If we had wings we would fly to you" - A Soviet Jewish Family Faces Destruction, 1941-42 (Paperback)
Kiril Feferman
R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the first work in any language that offers both an overarching exploration of the flight and evacuation of Soviet Jews viewed at the macro level, and a personal history of one Soviet Jewish family. It is also the first study to examine Jewish life in the Northern Caucasus, a Soviet region that history scholars have rarely addressed. Drawing on a collection of family letters, Kiril Feferman provides a history of the Ginsburgs as they debate whether to evacuate their home of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia and are eventually swept away by the Soviet-German War, the German invasion of Soviet Russia, and the Holocaust. The book makes a significant contribution to the history of the Holocaust and Second World War in the Soviet Union, presenting one Soviet region as an illustration of wartime social and media politics.

The Pendulum - A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past (Paperback): Julie Lindahl The Pendulum - A Granddaughter's Search for Her Family's Forbidden Nazi Past (Paperback)
Julie Lindahl
R470 Discovery Miles 4 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This gripping memoir traces Brazilian-born American Julie Lindahl's journey to uncover her grandparents' roles in the Third Reich as she is driven to understand how and why they became members of Hitler's elite, the SS. Out of the unbearable heart of the story-the unclaimed guilt that devours a family through the generations-emerges an unflinching will to learn the truth. In a remarkable six-year journey through Germany, Poland, Paraguay, and Brazil, Julie uncovers, among many other discoveries, that her grandfather had been a fanatic member of the SS since 1934. During World War II, he was responsible for enslavement and torture and was complicit in the murder of the local population on the large estates he oversaw in occupied Poland. He eventually fled to South America to evade a new wave of war-crimes trials. The pendulum used by Julie's grandmother to divine good from bad and true from false becomes a symbol for the elusiveness of truth and morality, but also for the false securities we cling to when we become unmoored. As Julie delves deeper into the abyss of her family's secret, discovering history anew, one precarious step at a time, the compassion of strangers is a growing force that transforms her world and the way that she sees her family-and herself.

In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust (Paperback): Jeffrey... In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918-1921 Pogroms in Ukraine and the Onset of the Holocaust (Paperback)
Jeffrey Veidlinger
R515 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R113 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Holocaust and North Africa (Hardcover): Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein The Holocaust and North Africa (Hardcover)
Aomar Boum, Sarah Abrevaya Stein
R2,452 Discovery Miles 24 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Holocaust is usually understood as a European story. Yet, this pivotal episode unfolded across North Africa and reverberated through politics, literature, memoir, and memory-Muslim as well as Jewish-in the post-war years. The Holocaust and North Africa offers the first English-language study of the unfolding events in North Africa, pushing at the boundaries of Holocaust Studies and North African Studies, and suggesting, powerfully, that neither is complete without the other. The essays in this volume reconstruct the implementation of race laws and forced labor across the Maghreb during World War II and consider the Holocaust as a North African local affair, which took diverse form from town to town and city to city. They explore how the Holocaust ruptured Muslim-Jewish relations, setting the stage for an entirely new post-war reality. Commentaries by leading scholars of Holocaust history complete the picture, reflecting on why the history of the Holocaust and North Africa has been so widely ignored-and what we have to gain by understanding it in all its nuances. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Anne Frank in the World - Essays and Reflections (Hardcover): Carol Ann Rittner Anne Frank in the World - Essays and Reflections (Hardcover)
Carol Ann Rittner
R4,429 Discovery Miles 44 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scholars, clergy, teachers, and writers present stimulating essays on the theme that Anne Frank's Diary movingly symbolizes the triumph of childhood innocence over totalitarian brutality. This is a valuable volume for classes and study groups with interests in religion and religious ethics, the Holocaust, ethnic cleansing, discrimination, the role of the individual in society, and the daunting moral dilemmas posed by emerging nationalisms all over the world.

Anne Frank in the World - Essays and Reflections (Paperback, New): Carol Ann Rittner Anne Frank in the World - Essays and Reflections (Paperback, New)
Carol Ann Rittner
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Scholars, clergy, teachers and writers present stimulating essays on the theme that Anne Frank's Diary movingly symbolizes the triumph of childhood innocence over totalitarian brutality. This may be of value for classes and study groups with interests in religion and religious ethics, the Holocaust, ethnic cleansing, discrimination, the role of the individual in society, and the daunting moral dilemmas posed by emerging nationalisms all over the world.

Born Survivors - The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the... Born Survivors - The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps (Paperback)
Wendy Holden 3
R314 R164 Discovery Miles 1 640 Save R150 (48%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Sunday Times bestseller now updated with a new foreword Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates with a secret. Strangers to each other, they were newly pregnant, and facing an uncertain fate without their husbands. Alone, scared, and with so many loved ones already lost to the Nazis, these young women were privately determined to hold on to all they had left: their lives, and those of their unborn babies. That the gas chambers ran out of Zyklon-B just after the babies were born, before they and their mothers could be exterminated, is just one of several miracles that allowed them all to survive and rebuild their lives after World War II. Born Survivors follows the mothers' incredible journey - first to Auschwitz, where they each came under the murderous scrutiny of Dr. Josef Mengele; then to a German slave labour camp where, half-starved and almost worked to death, they struggled to conceal their condition; and finally, as the Allies closed in, their hellish 17-day train journey with thousands of other prisoners to the Mauthausen death camp in Austria. Hundreds died along the way but the courage and kindness of strangers, including guards and civilians, helped save these women and their children. Sixty-five years later, the three 'miracle babies' met for the first time at Mauthausen for the anniversary of the liberation that ultimately saved them. United by their remarkable experiences of survival against all odds, they now consider each other "siblings of the heart." In Born Survivors, Wendy Holden brings all three stories together for the first time to mark their seventieth birthdays and the seventieth anniversary of the ending of the war. A heart-stopping account of how three mothers and their newborns fought to survive the Holocaust, Born Survivors is also a life-affirming celebration of our capacity to care and to love amid inconceivable cruelty.

The Betrayal of Anne Frank - A Cold Case Investigation (Paperback): Rosemary Sullivan The Betrayal of Anne Frank - A Cold Case Investigation (Paperback)
Rosemary Sullivan
R505 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R72 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wrestling with God - Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust (Hardcover): Steven T. Katz, Shlomo Biderman,... Wrestling with God - Jewish Theological Responses during and after the Holocaust (Hardcover)
Steven T. Katz, Shlomo Biderman, Gershon Greenberg
R5,375 Discovery Miles 53 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume presents a wide-ranging selection of Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust. It will be the most complete anthology of its sort, bringing together for the first time: (1) a large sample of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish; (2) a substantial selection of essays by Israeli authors, also translated from the Hebrew; (3) a broad sampling of works written in English by American and European authors. These diverse selections represent virtually every significant theological position that has been articulated by a Jewish thinker in response to the Holocaust. Included are rarely studied responses that were written while the Holocaust was happening.

Dictators and Autocrats - Securing Power across Global Politics (Paperback): Klaus Larres Dictators and Autocrats - Securing Power across Global Politics (Paperback)
Klaus Larres
R1,246 Discovery Miles 12 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In order to truly understand the emergence, endurance, and legacy of autocracy, this volume of engaging essays explores how autocratic power is acquired, exercised, and transferred or abruptly ended through the careers and politics of influential figures in more than 20 countries and six regions. The book looks at both traditional "hard" dictators, such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, and more modern "soft" or populist autocrats, who are in the process of transforming once fully democratic countries into autocratic states, including Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Narendra Modi in India, and Viktor Orban in Hungary. The authors touch on a wide range of autocratic and dictatorial figures in the past and present, including present-day autocrats, such as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, military leaders, and democratic leaders with authoritarian aspirations. They analyze the transition of selected autocrats from democratic or benign semi-democratic systems to harsher forms of autocracy, with either quite disastrous or more successful outcomes. An ideal reader for students and scholars, as well as the general public, interested in international affairs, leadership studies, contemporary history and politics, global studies, security studies, economics, psychology, and behavioral studies.

The Holocaust in the Soviet Union - Studies and Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in the Nazi-occupied Territories of the... The Holocaust in the Soviet Union - Studies and Sources on the Destruction of the Jews in the Nazi-occupied Territories of the USSR, 1941-45 (Paperback, New Ed)
Lucjan Dobroszycki, Jeffery S. Gurock
R1,160 Discovery Miles 11 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this volume, scholars from the United States, Israel and Eastern Europe examine the history of the Holocaust on Soviet territory and its treatment in Soviet politics and literature from 1945 to 1991. Of special interest to researchers will be chapters on some of the major research sources for historical study, including census materials, memorial books, archives and recently released documents.

But You Did Not Come Back (Paperback, Main): Marceline Loridan-Ivens But You Did Not Come Back (Paperback, Main)
Marceline Loridan-Ivens; Translated by Sandra Smith 1
R233 R216 Discovery Miles 2 160 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1944, at the age of fifteen, Marceline Loridan-Ivens was arrested in occupied France, along with her father. They were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and forcibly separated. Though he managed to smuggle one last note to her, Marceline never spoke to her father again. But You Did Not Come Back is Marceline's letter to the father she would never know as an adult. This is a breath-taking memoir by an extraordinary woman, and a deeply moving message from a daughter to a father.

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age - Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices (Hardcover): Jeffrey Shandler Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age - Survivors' Stories and New Media Practices (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Shandler
R2,238 Discovery Miles 22 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization. Through an in-depth study of the largest and most widely available collection of videotaped interviews with survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust, the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, Jeffrey Shandler weighs the possibilities and challenges brought about by digital forms of public memory. The Visual History Archive's holdings are extensive-over 100,000 hours of video, including interviews with over 50,000 individuals-and came about at a time of heightened anxiety about the imminent passing of the generation of Holocaust survivors and other eyewitnesses. Now, the Shoah Foundation's investment in new digital media is instrumental to its commitment to remembering the Holocaust both as a subject of historical importance in its own right and as a paradigmatic moral exhortation against intolerance. Shandler not only considers the Archive as a whole, but also looks closely at individual survivors' stories, focusing on narrative, language, and spectacle to understand how Holocaust remembrance is mediated.

Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East - Arab and Turkish Responses (Paperback): Francis R. Nicosia, Bogac A. Ergene Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Middle East - Arab and Turkish Responses (Paperback)
Francis R. Nicosia, Bogac A. Ergene
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Given their geographical separation from Europe, ethno-religious and cultural diversity, and subordinate status within the Nazi racial hierarchy, Middle Eastern societies were both hospitable as well as hostile to National Socialist ideology during the 1930s and 1940s. By focusing on Arab and Turkish reactions to German anti-Semitism and the persecution and mass-murder of European Jews during this period, this expansive collection surveys the institutional and popular reception of Nazism in the Middle East and North Africa. It provides nuanced and scholarly yet accessible case studies of the ways in which nationalism, Islam, anti-Semitism, and colonialism intertwined, all while sensitive to the region's political, cultural, and religious complexities.

Escapees - The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands (Hardcover): Tanja von... Escapees - The History of Jews Who Fled Nazi Deportation Trains in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands (Hardcover)
Tanja von Fransecky
R2,683 Discovery Miles 26 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Of the countless stories of resistance, ingenuity, and personal risk to emerge in the years following the Holocaust, among the most remarkable, yet largely overlooked, are those of the hundreds of Jewish deportees who escaped from moving trains bound for the extermination camps. In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands alone over 750 men, women and children undertook such dramatic escape attempts, despite the extraordinary uncertainty and physical danger they often faced. Drawing upon extensive interviews and a wealth of new historical evidence, Escapees gives a fascinating collective account of this hitherto neglected form of resistance to Nazi persecution.

A History of Modern Germany - 1871 to Present (Paperback, 8th edition): Dietrich Orlow A History of Modern Germany - 1871 to Present (Paperback, 8th edition)
Dietrich Orlow
R2,509 Discovery Miles 25 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A History of Modern Germany is a well-established text that presents a balanced survey of the last 150 years of German history, stretching from nineteenth-century imperial Germany, through political division and reunification, and into the present day. Beginning in the early 1870s and covering topics such as Wilhelmenian Germany, the World Wars, revolution, inflation and putsches, the Weimar Republic, the Federal Republic and the German Democratic Republic, the book offers a comprehensive overview of the entire period of modern German history. Fully updated throughout, this new edition details foreign policy, political and economic history and includes increased coverage of social and cultural history, and history 'from the bottom up', as well as containing a new chapter that brings it right up to the present day. The book is supported by full discussion of past and present historiographic debates, illustrations, maps, further readings and biographies of key German political, economic and cultural figures within the Im Mittelpunkt feature. Fully exploring the complicated path of Germany's troubled past and stable present, A History of Modern Germany provides the perfect grounding for all students of German history.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Victoria Aarons, Phyllis Lassner The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Victoria Aarons, Phyllis Lassner
R6,311 Discovery Miles 63 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation. The chapters consider diverse generational perspectives-survivor writing, second and third generation-and genres-memoirs, poetry, novels, graphic narratives, films, video-testimonies, and other forms of literary and cultural expression. In turn, these perspectives create interactions among generations, genres, temporalities, and cultural contexts. The volume also participates in the ongoing project of responding to and talking through moments of rupture and incompletion that represent an opportunity to contribute to the making of meaning through the continuation of narratives of the past. As such, the chapters in this volume pose options for reading Holocaust texts, offering openings for further discussion and exploration. The inquiring body of interpretive scholarship responding to the Shoah becomes itself a story, a narrative that materially extends our inquiry into that history.

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