Download or read book Remembering Survival Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp written by Christopher R. Browning and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the National Jewish Book Award "An important, revealing story, exceptionally well told." —Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Employing the rich testimony of almost three hundred survivors of the slave-labor camps of Starachowice, Poland, Christopher R. Browning draws the experiences of the Jewish prisoners, the Nazi authorities, and the neighboring Poles together into a chilling history of a little-known dimension of the Holocaust. Combining harrowing detail and insightful analysis on the Starachowice camps and their role in the Holocaust, Browning’s history is indispensable scholarship and an unforgettable story of survival.
Download or read book Writing the Holocaust written by Zoë Vania Waxman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing against the prevailing view that Holocaust survivors (encouraged by a new and flourishing culture of 'witnessing') have come forward only recently to tell their stories,Writing the Holocaust examines the full history of Holocaust testimony, from the first chroniclers confined to Nazi-enforced ghettos to today's survivors writing as part of collective memory. Zoë Waxman shows how the conditions and motivations for bearing witness changed immeasurably. She reveals the multiplicity of Holocaust experiences, the historically contingent nature of victims' responses, and the extent to which their identities - secular or religious, male or female, East or West European - affected not only what they observed but also how they have written about their experiences. In particular, she demonstrates that what survivors remember is substantially determined by the context in which they are remembering.
Download or read book Prague in Black written by Chad Bryant and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of the Munich Agreement, Hitler’s troops marched into Prague and established the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Nazi leaders were determined to make the region entirely German. Bryant explores the origins and implementation of these plans as part of a wider history of Nazi rule and its eventual consequences for the region.
Download or read book Guardians of the Nation written by Pieter M. Judson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades leading up to World War I, nationalist activists in imperial Austria labored to transform linguistically mixed rural regions into politically charged language frontiers. Using examples from several regions, including Bohemia and Styria, Judson traces the struggle to consolidate the loyalty of local populations for nationalist causes.
Download or read book Trauma and Attachment in the Kindertransport Context written by Iris Guske and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the result of an interdisciplinary oral history research project, which was carried out at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. It focuses on the Kindertransport, the British rescue operation saving 10,000 predominantly German-Jewish children from Nazi Germany, and is based on in-depth case studies of five child survivors of the Holocaust. Looking at human development over the life cycle as mediated by intervening trauma was at the heart of the project, which examined the making and breaking of a child's close ties to significant others, processes of identity formation under acculturative stress as well as the creation and recall of traumatic memories. The study is thus one of the few in the field of attachment research which sheds light on the lifelong influence which early attachment has on coping with massive cumulative trauma. The former child refugees' narratives are enriched by letters, diaries, or articles written by them and their (host) families as well as by interviews conducted with family members and friends. Consequently, we can look at individual lives and collective destinies from more than one perspective as we are provided with rich, multi-layered accounts of people's whole-life trajectories. While each Holocaust survivor's developmental story is unique, it is, however, linked to the others' by the common experience of negotiating an identity between two countries, cultures, and religions against the background of unparalleled political upheavals, and as such also sheds light on, and offers ways out of, the traumata suffered in present-day contexts of enforced migration and displacement.
Download or read book Pearls of Childhood written by Vera Gissing and published by Robson. This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1939, shortly before her eleventh birthday, Vera Gissing escaped from occupied Czechoslovakia, leaving behind her parents, family and friends, to spend six years in Britain.Throughout the war years Vera kept a diary, recording her day-to-day experiences, her longing for her parents, her hopes and prayers for the freedom of her country. By the time she returned to Prague to set up home with her aunt in 1945, she knew that both her parents had died - her mother in Belsen, her father on a death march. She came back to England in 1949 and has lived here ever since.The memories and emotions rekindled by a reunion of the Czech school in Wales where she was educated, encouraged Vera to go back to the diaries and letters from her parents that she had not touched for forty years, and in 'Pearls of Childhood' 'she provides a powerful and moving account of the life of one child growing up in extraordinary circumstances.
Download or read book The Dunera Affair written by Paul Robert Bartrop and published by Melbourne, Vic. : Schwartz & Wilkinson : Jewish Museum of Australia. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dunera Internees written by Benzion Patkin and published by Stanmore, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia. This book was released on 1979 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Jewish refugees who were deported from Great Britain to Australia on the ship Dunera. They were held in camps in Hay, New South Wales and Tatura, Victoria.
Download or read book The Dunera Scandal written by Cyril Pearl and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1983. An account of the deportation from England and internment in Australia of refugees from Nazi Germany during WWII. Written by former editor of the TSunday Telegraph' and author of TWild Men of Sydney' and TMorrison of Peking'.
Download or read book My Darling Diary written by Ingrid Jacoby and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Ingrid Jacoby's first published diary, which dealt with her wartime arrival in Britain under the Kindertransport movement at the age of 12 and subsequent life through to 1944, Ingrid Jacoby's second My Darling Diary records her life from late in 1944 through to 1950. During these years Ingrid lives in Oxford, where she works at the Central Library for a while and then at Parker's Bookshop. Throughout her encounters with those in charge and with various colleagues and friends, her diary reflects the deep thoughts and feelings of a girl's coming of age in Britain during the 1940s. It is the honesty and frankness of Ingrid's diary that entices the reader to read on; whether it is her unprovoked lecherous encounter with the famed singer Richard Tauber or her own feelings of love for various men who wend in and out of her life, we know that the sentiments are real, being told directly to us as the diary takes on a persona of its own. There are times of loneliness, times of desire, sexual experiences with 'WB' her married boss at the bookshop and with boyfriends, all interwoven with feelings of inadequacy, doubt, and the myriad of emotions attached to any young woman from any age. However, this is Ingrid's story, and in so being is also completely original, enticing and compelling to read.
Download or read book Lifesaving Letters written by Milena Roth and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 3 (pp. 26-98), "The Letters, " contains letters written by the author's mother, Anna Roth, between September 1930-July 1942. After the German invasion of Czechoslovakia Anna and Emil Roth, who lived in Prague, decided to send their six-year-old daughter on a Kindertransport to friends in England, hoping to follow. Anna's letters describe, inter alia, their futile attempts to emigrate. In July 1943 they were sent to Theresienstadt; in September 1943 they were sent to Auschwitz, where they perished. Further information on their fate is dispersed throughout the remainder of the book.
