Download or read book Edith Stein and Companions written by Paul F. W. Hamans and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the same summer day in 1942, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) and hundreds of other Catholic Jews were arrested in Holland by the occupying Nazis. One hundred thirteen of those taken into custody, several of them priests and nuns, perished at Auschwitz and other concentration camps. They were murdered in retaliation for the anti-Nazi pastoral letter written by the Dutch Catholic bishops. While Saint Teresa Benedicta is the most famous member of this group, having been canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1998, all of them deserve the title of martyr, for they were killed not only because they were Jews but also because of the faith of the Church, which had compelled the Dutch bishops to protest the Nazi regime. Through extensive research in both original and secondary sources, P.W.F.M. Hamans has compiled these martyrs' biographies, several of them detailed and accompanied by photographs. Included in this volume are some remarkable conversion stories, including that of Edith Stein, the German philosopher who had entered the Church in 1922 and later became a Carmelite nun, taking the name Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Several of the witnesses chronicled here had already suffered for their faith in Christ before falling victim to Hitler's "Final Solution", enduring both rejection by their own people, including family members, and persecution by the so-called Christian society in which they lived. Among these were those who, also like Sister Teresa Benedicta, perceived the cross they were being asked to bear and accepted it willingly for the salvation of the world. Illustrated

Download or read book Camino a Auschwitz written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Camino de Auschwitz Edith Stein written by María Mercedes Álvarez Pérez and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Stein Courant nació en 1891 en Bresláu (Polonia), en el seno de una familia judía de clase media. De carácter fuerte, alegre y voluntarioso, Edith pronto destacó en la escuela por su compañerismo e inteligencia. Su espíritu de superación la llevó siempre a buscar la verdad sobre el ser humano y el mundo. En 1921 leyó la autobiografía de santa Teresa de Jesús y tomó la firme decisión de convertirse al catolicismo. En 1934 se hizo carmelita descalza. Trabajó en estudios filosóficos sobre santo Tomás de Aquino y san Juan de la Cruz, mientras era perseguida por su condición de judía. En agosto de 1942 la apresaron y trasladaron a Auschwitz, donde fue asesinada. Por su ejemplo de valentía, alegría y ofrecimiento de su vida por el pueblo judío, del que nunca renegó, Juan Pablo II la canonizó el 11 de octubre de 1998.

Download or read book Jews Across the Americas written by Adriana M. Brodsky and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jews Across the Americas, a documentary reader with sources from Latin America, the Caribbean, Canada, and the United States, each introduced by an expert in the field, teaches students to analyze historical sources and encourages them to think about who and what has been and is an American Jew"--

Download or read book American Camino written by Kip Redick and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between long-distance hiking—in this case, hiking the Appalachian Trail—and spiritual pilgrimage. Kip Redick interprets the Appalachian Trail as a site of spiritual journey and those who hike the wilderness trail as unique contemporary pilgrims.

Download or read book Survival In Auschwitz written by Primo Levi and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.

Download or read book The Auschwitz Journal written by Klara Kardos and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nazi Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944 violent persecution of the Jews began, including taking hundreds of thousands to concentration camps. It did not help Klara Kardos that she was Catholic: because of her Jewish background, she was also taken to Auschwitz in June of 1944 at the age of 24. At the camp, younger women were not killed; they were taken to ammunition factories to do forced labor. Klara survived the horror of death camps and was liberated in May 1945. Years after her return to Hungary, at the request of her friends, she wrote down her camp experiences in a small book in the Hungarian language. This is her story.

Download or read book Survival in Auschwitz And The Reawakening written by Primo Levi and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's survival in Auschwitz and his travels through Eastern Europe and Russia are the subjects of this memoir.

Download or read book Journey Through Darkness written by Willy Berler and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Willy Berler's 'Journey through Darkness' opens with the attack on the 20th Belgian convoy from Mechelen to Auschwitz, an extraordinary act of resistance. His tale then relates the arrival at Monowitz, his fortuitous transfer to the main camp of Auschwitz, and the story of his friend's $100 which ultimately saved both their lives in Buchenwald. It tells of the executions at the Black Wall, which Willy Berler was forced to watch, and of the special commando of the SS Hygiene Institute of Rajsko, which has been relatively undocumented. Finally, it describes the death march, and Willy Berler's chance meeting with an SS murderer from his hometown, who spoke better Yiddish than he did. The book does not simply describe the horror: the story is also a tale of solidarity and friendship, of humanity in a dehumanized universe. Friends, chance, and especially good luck saved him in that hell, allowing him to survive.

Download or read book The Holocaust in the Twenty First Century written by David M. Seymour and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume locates and explores historical and contemporary sites of contested meanings of Holocaust memory across a range of geographical, geo-political, and disciplinary contexts, identifying and critically engaging with the nature and expression of these meanings within their relevant contexts, elucidating the political, social, and cultural underpinnings and consequences of these meanings, and offering interventions in the contemporary debates of Holocaust memory that suggest ways forward for the future.

Download or read book For This I Lived written by Sami Modiano and published by Sapienza Università Editrice. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like so many Holocaust survivors, Sami Modiano remained silent for many years, not talking about his life, his experiences and his long journey through the twentieth century. How could he speak about such deep pain? The loss of his entire family, and his Jewish community of Rhodes wiped from the face of the earth? With the enactment of racial laws he is suddenly considered different; he wakes up as a child like many others and goes to sleep as a Jew. From that moment nothing will be the same as before. Sami is sent to Auschwitz Birkenau where he loses all his loved ones. Alone in the world, he is subjected to but does not learn to practice the language of hatred and violence. He survives and builds a new life with his wife Selma; they are an extraordinary couple united by their love for life. Several decades later, Sami’s voice becomes a precious, unique testimony inspired by a question the author kept inside for a long time, a question that runs through the pages of his book: “Why did I come back alive? Why me?” This book that has been published in Italian in various editions and reprints since 2013, now available in English, offers an extraordinary testimony to a vast international audience. A story of pain and destruction, but also a sign of hope for one who has managed to tell his story and turn his words into seeds of peace and solidarity thereby creating a path of knowledge and culture.

Download or read book Memories of Resistance and the Holocaust on Film written by Mercedes Camino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates cinematic representations of the murder of European Jews and civilian opposition to Nazi occupation from the war up until the twenty-first century. The study exposes a chronology of the conflict’s memorialization whose geo-political alignments are demarcated by vectors of time and space—or ‘chronotopes’, using Mikhail Bakhtin’s term. Camino shows such chronotopes to be first defined by the main allies; the USA, USSR and UK; and then subsequently expanding from the geographical and political centres of the occupation; France, the USSR and Poland. Films from Western and Eastern Europe and the USA are treated as primary and secondary sources of the conflict. These sources contribute to a sentient or emotional history that privileges affect and construct what Michel Foucault labels biopolitics. These cinematic narratives, which are often based on memoirs of resistance fighters like Joseph Kessel or Holocaust survivors such as Primo Levi and Wanda Jakubowska, evoke the past in what Marianne Hirsch has described as ‘post-memory’.

Download or read book El Camino de Auschwitz a Bruselas written by Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Heritage and Identity written by J.M. Fladmark and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was the shaping of nation states in Northern Europe governed by military might, or by Christian and democratic ideals? How has trade and cross-cultural exchange between Scandinavia and the British Isles shaped our historic identities, and what about the impact of global politics and marketing in recent times? These are some of the questions explored by the contributors in the context of forces that shape national identities today. Their analysis highlights the need for historical awareness when developing future cultural policy, brand profiles and marketing strategies. Looking back, Jesse Byock tells how democracy was first embraced in the north by the early settlers of Iceland, Bjorn Myhre delves into the unpredictability of historical interpretation, Edward Cowan discusses the role of 'battles and beddings' in relations across the North Sea, John Purkis writes about William Morris' fascination with Nordic culture, Stephen Harrison presents the 'winning ways' of product development and marketing by Manx National Heritage, whilst Chris Powell looks at 'Cool Britannia' today and Simon Anholt at national branding strategies. This is an inspirational book that sheds new light on old subjects, equally relevant for both public and private sector policy makers alike.

Download or read book Escape From Hell written by Alfréd Wetzler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alfred Wetzler was a true hero. His escape from Auschwitz, and the report he helped compile, telling for the first time the truth about the camp as a place of mass murder, led directly to saving the lives of 120,000 Jews: the Jews of Budapest who were about to be deported to their deaths. No other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them. This book tells Wetzler's story." - Sir Martin Gilbert "Wetzler is a master at evoking the universe of Auschwitz, and especially, his and Vrba's harrowing flight to Slovakia. The day-by-day account of the tremendous difficulties the pair faced after the Nazis had called off their search of the camp and its surroundings is both riveting and heart wrenching. ...] Shining vibrantly through the pages of the memoir are the tenacity and valor of two young men, who sought to inform the world about the greatest outrage ever committed by humans against their fellow humans." - From Introduction by Dr Robert Rozett] Together with another young Slovak Jew, both of them deported in 1942, the author succeeded in escaping from the notorious death camp in the spring of 1944. There were some very few successful escapes from Auschwitz during the war, but it was these two who smuggled out the damning evidence - a ground plan of the camp, constructional details of the gas chambers and crematoriums and, most convincingly, a label from a canister of Cyclone gas. The present book is cast in the form of a novel to allow factual information not personally collected by the two fugitives, but provided for them by a handful of reliable friends, to be included. Nothing, however, has been invented. It is a shocking account of Nazi genocide and of the inhuman conditions in the camp, but equally shocking is the initial disbelief the fugitive's revelations met with after their return. Ewald Osers has translated over 150 books and received many translation prizes and honours.

Download or read book Eyewitness Auschwitz written by Filip Müller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1999-08-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filip Müller came to Auschwitz with one of the earliest transports from Slovakia in April 1942 and began working in the gassing installations and crematoria in May. He was still alive when the gassings ceased in November 1944. He saw millions come and disappear; by sheer luck he survived. Müller is neither a historian nor a psychologist; he is a source—one of the few prisoners who saw the Jewish people die and lived to tell about it. Eyewitness Auschwitz is one of the key documents of the Holocaust.

Download or read book The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory written by Stephen D. Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trajectory of Holocaust Memory: The Crisis of Testimony in Theory and Practice re-considers survivor testimony, moving from a subject-object reading of the past to a subject-subject encounter in the present. It explores how testimony evolves in relationship to the life of eyewitnesses across time. This book breaks new ground based on three principles. The first draws on Martin Buber’s “I-Thou” concept, transforming the object of history into an encounter between subjects. The second employs the Jungian concept of identity, whereby the individual (internal identity) and the persona (external identity) reframe testimony as an extension of the individual. They are a living subject, rather than merely a persona or narrative. The third principle draws on Daniel Kahneman’s concept of the experiencing self, which relives events as they occurred, and the remembering self, which reflects on their meaning in sum. Taken together, these principles comprise a new literacy of testimony that enables the surviving victim and the listener to enter a relationship of trust. Designed for readers of Holocaust history and literature, this book defines the modalities of memory, witness, and testimony. It shows how encountering the individual who lived through the past changes how testimony is understood, and therefore what it can come to mean.