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Author : Dan Mikhman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9789653080683
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Belgium and the Holocaust written by Dan Mikhman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Holocaust in Belgium.
Author : Suzanne Vromen
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199739056
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Hidden Children of the Holocaust written by Suzanne Vromen and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust , these children found sanctuary with other families and schools-but especially in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages. Vromen has interviewed not only those who were hidden as children, but also the Christian women who rescued them, and the nuns who gave the children shelter, all of whose voices are heard in this powerfully moving book. Indeed, here are numerous first-hand memoirs of life in a wartime convent-the secrecy, the humor, the admiration, the anger, the deprivation, the cruelty, and the kindness-all with the backdrop of the terror of the Nazi occupation. We read the stories of the women of the Resistance who risked their lives in placing Jewish children in the care of the Church, and of the Mothers Superior and nuns who sheltered these children and hid their identity from the authorities. Perhaps most riveting are the stories told by the children themselves-abruptly separated from distraught parents and given new names, the children were brought to the convents with a sense of urgency, sometimes under the cover of darkness. They were plunged into a new life, different from anything they had ever known, and expected to adapt seamlessly. Vromen shows that some adapted so well that they converted to Catholicism, at times to fit in amid the daily prayers and rituals, but often because the Church appealed to them. Vromen also examines their lives after the war, how they faced the devastating loss of parents to the Holocaust, struggled to regain their identities and sought to memorialize those who saved them.
Author : Tanja von Fransecky
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785338870
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Escapees written by Tanja von Fransecky and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Francine Lazarus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Hidden Jewish Child from Belgium written by Francine Lazarus and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francine Lazarus survived WWII in Belgium hidden with strangers, isolated from her family, and moved from place to place. She witnessed murder and was often injured herself. With her father murdered in Auschwitz, her story continues post-war with the young Francine, neglected and abused by her family, being sent into foster care. At 13 she was sent to work and forced to abandon education. Like most child Survivors, she was told to forget about her war experiences. After an involuntary migration to Australia, her life began to improve. She created a loving family and, in middle age, earned a bachelor's and master's degrees. However, this testimony is much more than a chronicle of Francine's life. Plagued by secrecy, guilt, and shame, she explains how silence affected her life, and the events that prompted her to share her story. The book is particularly valuable because Francine relates her memories, emotions and introspection to the existing literature on Hidden Children. The research on her life, family and their history (including books, papers, archives, and museum documents) is interspersed throughout the book, offering a detailed portrayal of her situation. This description by a Survivor of her reconstruction and self-healing process is rare in existing literature. Furthermore, her immigration, part of the recovery process, is a fascinating and under-researched topic, which allows for a unique insight into post-war expatriation. The issue of reconstruction is what makes this book a considerable addition to current literature. It fills the gap between the intimacy of individual memoirs and the past ten years' academic research conducted on elderly hidden Jewish children by historians, psychologists, and other professionals. [Subject: Memoir, Holocaust Studies, Psychology, Immigration, Jewish Studies]
Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1760785202
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)
Download or read book King Leopold's Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Author : James M. Deem
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544096649
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Prisoners of Breendonk written by James M. Deem and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing and captivating nonfiction account (with never-before-published photographs) offers readers an in-depth anthropological and historical look into the lives of those who suffered and survived Breendonk concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II.
Author : Beatrice Muchman
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 1602802009
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Never to Be Forgotten written by Beatrice Muchman and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Booklist Muchman was born in Berlin in 1933. In March 1939, she, her parents, and four relatives fled to Brussels to escape the Nazi regime. In 1942, Germany occupied Belgium, and Muchman's parents brought her and her cousin to the home of two Catholic women for safekeeping. Her parents were killed; she survived and was ultimately brought to the U.S., where she was adopted by an aunt and uncle in Chicago. Muchman grew up believing that her Jewish parents had abandoned her. In 1990, a box was discovered in her uncle's home that contained faded letters, documents, and old photographs; the letters had been written by her parents in the 1940s. "I finally was able to discover, in a deep, fundamental way, that my parents had loved me more than life itself," the author relates. This important book brings the enormous magnitude of the Holocaust down to a very personal level. It contains poignant black-and-white family photographs and reproductions of passports and other documents.
Author : David Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113402181X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Fragility of Law written by David Fraser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic persecutions and ultimately the deaths of thousands of Belgian Jews was Belgian. Based on extensive archival research in Belgium, France, the United States and Israel, The Fragility of Law offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust history. Belgian legal officials did not hesitate to invoke the provisions of international law found in the Hague Convention and those guarantees of individual freedom found in the national Constitution to oppose the demands of the German Occupying Authority. However, they remained largely silent when anti-Jewish persecution was at stake. Indeed, despite the 2007 official report of expert historians on Belgian state collaboration in the persecution of the country’s Jewish population, the mythology of "passive collaboration" which has dominated Belgian historiography and accounts of the Holocaust in that country, must be radically rethought.
Author : Jean-Michel Veranneman de Watervliet
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 9781399011419
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Belgium in the Second World War written by Jean-Michel Veranneman de Watervliet and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Nazis invaded neutral Belgium in May 1940, defeat and occupation were inevitable but Belgian armed forces held out against a vastly superior enemy for 18 days. The elected Government went into exile in London but King Leopold III controversially remained with his people as a prisoner. As described in this authoritative book, Belgians continued the fight both outside and inside their country. There were eventually two complete Belgian RAF squadrons. The Colonial Army defeated the Italians in East Africa and the Belgian Brigade fought from Normandy to Germany. The Belgian Resistance organized escape routes, sabotaged their occupiers activities and spied for the Allies. 17,000 died or were executed and a further 27,000 survived detention. Meanwhile others collaborated and fought for the Nazis and large numbers were tried post-war for war crimes and treason. About half the Jews in Belgium in 1940 died in the Holocaust and there are many stirring stories of courage, as well as tragic ones. This is an overdue and honest account of one nation's varied experiences during five years of Nazi occupation and oppression.
Author : Sylvain Brachfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Gift of Life written by Sylvain Brachfeld and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deportation and the Rescue of the Jews in Occupied Belgium (1940-1945).
Author : Marcel Tenenbaum
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514475073
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Of Men, Monsters and Mazel written by Marcel Tenenbaum and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel Tenenbaum is a child survivor of the Holocaust and lived through the German occupation of Belgium between May 1940 and September 1944. After completing grade 1, he went into hiding in 1942 when the Nazis started deporting Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. His parents were denounced to the Nazis in 1944. He arrived at the Malines gathering camp seventy-two hours after the last train for Auschwitz departed from Belgium. He was a prisoner for one month and was liberated by British and Canadian troops. He and his parents emigrated from Belgium in 1951 and settled in Montral, Canada.
Author : Nico Wouters
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783319328409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Mayoral Collaboration under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46 written by Nico Wouters and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of mayors in navigating the realities of living and governing under Nazi occupation. In Western Europe under Nazi occupation, mayors of villages and cities were forced into strategic cooperation with the occupier. Mayors had to provide good governance, mediate between occupier and populations, maintain personal legitimacy, and build local consensus. However, as national systems underwent authoritarian reform and collaborationists infiltrated administrations, local governments were gradually turned into instruments of Nazi control and repression. Nico Wouters uses rich new archival data to compare the realities of local government in three countries. Looking at topics such as food supply, public order and safety, forced labour, the repression of resistance, the persecution of the Jews and post-war purges, this book redefines our knowledge of collaboration, resistance and accommodation during Nazi occupation.
Author : Ward Adriaens
Publisher : ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA
ISBN 13 : 9054875372
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Mecheln-Auschwitz 1942-1944 written by Ward Adriaens and published by ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trilingual series (in Dutch, French, and English) dealing with the persecution and deportation of Jews and gypsies from the transit camp in Mechelen to Auschwitz between 1942-44. The prisoners had been arrested in Belgium and in northern France. Vol. 1 presents a historical overview, by Steinberg and Schram, of the racist and antisemitic persecutions in Belgium (especially in Antwerp), and in northern France, and relates the history of each transport. Vols. 2-3 present photographs of 18,522 of the 25,259 deportees. Only ca. 1,000 of the photographs represent gypsies. Vol. 4 contains lists of the names of the victims and biographical information concerning their fate. Contents: Vol. 1: De vernietiging van de Joden en zigeuners van België = La destruction des Juifs et des Tsiganes de Belgique = The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies from Belgium; Vol. 2: Gezichten van gedeporteerden: Transporten 1-13 = Visages des déportés: Transports 1-13 = Faces of the Deportees: Transports 1-13; Vol. 3 - Gezichten van gedeporteerden: Transporten 14-26 = Visages des déportés: Transports 14-26 = Faces of the Deportees: Transports 14-26; Vol. 4 - Namenlijst van de gedeporteerden = Liste des noms des déportés = List of Names of the Deportees.
Author : David Fraser
Publisher : Routledge Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780415542357
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (423 download)
Download or read book The Fragility of Law written by David Fraser and published by Routledge Cavendish. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic persecutions and ultimately the deaths of thousands of Belgian Jews was Belgian. Based on extensive archival research in Belgium, France, the United States and Israel, The Fragility of Law offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust history. Belgian legal officials did not hesitate to invoke the provisions of international law found in the Hague Convention and those guarantees of individual freedom found in the national Constitution to oppose the demands of the German Occupying Authority. However, they remained largely silent when anti-Jewish persecution was at stake. Indeed, despite the 2007 official report of expert historians on Belgian state collaboration in the persecution of the country’s Jewish population, the mythology of "passive collaboration" which has dominated Belgian historiography and accounts of the Holocaust in that country, must be radically rethought.
Author : Livia Rothkirchen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803205023
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia written by Livia Rothkirchen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted,” Vaclav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and indeed, the complex and intimate link between the fortunes of these two peoples is unique in European history. This book, by one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period, is the first to thoroughly document this singular relationship and to trace its impact, both practical and profound, on the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehensive history of how Nazi rule in the Czech lands was shaped as much by local culture and circumstances as by military policy. The extraordinary nature of the Czech Jews’ experience emerges clearly in chapters on the role of the Jewish minority in Czech life; the crises of the Munich agreement and the German occupation, the reaction of the local population to the persecution of the Jews, the policies of the London-based government in exile, the question of Jewish resistance, and the special case of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia is based on a wealth of primary documents, many uncovered only after the 1989 November Revolution. With an epilogue on the post-1945 period, this richly woven historical narrative supplies information essential to an understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe.
Author : Belgian Information Center (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Liberation of Belgium written by Belgian Information Center (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcel Tenenbaum
Publisher : Xlibris
ISBN 13 : 9781514475089
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Of Men, Monsters and Mazel written by Marcel Tenenbaum and published by Xlibris. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
