|
Books > History > World history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
|
Not currently available
Waiting for Hope - Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany (Paperback)
Loot Price: R674
Discovery Miles 6 740
You Save: R90
(12%)
|
|
|
Waiting for Hope - Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany (Paperback)
Series: Jewish Lives
Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available.
|
After the defeat of Germany in World War II, hundreds of thousands
of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were transported to camps
maintained by the Allies for displaced persons (DPs). In Waiting
for Hope: Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War II Germany,
historians Angelika Kö nigseder and Juliane Wetzel offer a social
and cultural history of the DP camps.
Starting with the discovery of Nazi death camps by Allied forces,
Kö nigseder and Wetzel describe the inadequate preparations that
had been made for the starving and sick camp survivors. News of
having to live in camps again was devastating to these survivors,
and many Jewish survivors were forced to live side by side with
non-Jewish anti-Semitic DPs. The Allied soldiers were ill equipped
to deal with the physical wreckage and mental anguish of their
charges, but American rabbis soon arrived to perform invaluable
work helping the survivors cope with grief and frustration.
Kö nigseder and Wetzel devote attention to autonomous Jewish life
in the DP camps. Theater groups and orchestras prospered in and
around the camps; Jewish newspapers began to publish; kindergartens
and schools were founded; and a tuberculosis hospital and clinic
for DPs was established in Bergen-Belsen. Underground organizations
coalesced to handle illegal immigration to Israel and the training
of soldiers to fight in Palestine. In many places there was even a
last flowering of shtetl life before the DPs began to scatter to
Israel, Germany, and other countries.
Drawing on original documents and the work of other historians,
Waiting for Hope sheds light on a largely unknown period in postwar
Jewish history and shows that the suffering ofthe survivors did not
end with the war.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
