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The Last Ghetto

Author : Anna Hájková
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190051787
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Last Ghetto written by Anna Hájková and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terezín, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Terezín was the last ghetto to be liberated, one day after the end of World War II. The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prison society during the Holocaust. Rather than depict the prison society which existed within the ghetto as an exceptional one, unique in kind and not understandable by normal analytical methods, Anna Hájková argues that such prison societies that developed during the Holocaust are best understood as simply other instances of the societies human beings create under normal circumstances. Challenging conventional claims of Holocaust exceptionalism, Hájková insists instead that we ought to view the Holocaust with the same analytical tools as other historical events. The prison society of Terezín produced its own social hierarchies under which seemingly small differences among prisoners (of age, ethnicity, or previous occupation) could determine whether one ultimately lived or died. During the three and a half years of the camp's existence, prisoners created their own culture and habits, bonded, fell in love, and forged new families. Based on extensive archival research in nine languages and on empathetic reading of victim testimonies, The Last Ghetto is a transnational, cultural, social, gender, and organizational history of Terezín, revealing how human society works in extremis and highlighting the key issues of responsibility, agency and its boundaries, and belonging.

The Order of Terror

Author : Wolfgang Sofsky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400822181
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Order of Terror written by Wolfgang Sofsky and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twelve years from 1933 until 1945, the concentration camp operated as a terror society. In this pioneering book, the renowned German sociologist Wolfgang Sofsky looks at the concentration camp from the inside as a laboratory of cruelty and a system of absolute power built on extreme violence, starvation, "terror labor," and the business-like extermination of human beings. Based on historical documents and the reports of survivors, the book details how the resistance of prisoners was broken down. Arbitrary terror and routine violence destroyed personal identity and social solidarity, disrupted the very ideas of time and space, perverted human work into torture, and unleashed innumerable atrocities. As a result, daily life was reduced to a permanent struggle for survival, even as the meaning of self-preservation was extinguished. Sofsky takes us from the searing, unforgettable image of the Muselmann--Auschwitz jargon for the "walking dead"--to chronicles of epidemics, terror punishments, selections, and torture. The society of the camp was dominated by the S.S. and a system of graduated and forced collaboration which turned selected victims into accomplices of terror. Sofsky shows that the S.S. was not a rigid bureaucracy, but a system with ample room for autonomy. The S.S. demanded individual initiative of its members. Consequently, although they were not required to torment or murder prisoners, officers and guards often exploited their freedom to do so--in passing or on a whim, with cause, or without. The order of terror described by Sofsky culminated in the organized murder of millions of European Jews and Gypsies in the death-factories of Auschwitz and Treblinka. By the end of this book, Sofsky shows that the German concentration camp system cannot be seen as a temporary lapse into barbarism. Instead, it must be conceived as a product of modern civilization, where institutionalized, state-run human cruelty became possible with or without the mobilizing feelings of hatred.

The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust

Author : Sara Bender
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584657293
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of Bialystok During World War II and the Holocaust written by Sara Bender and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish society as an active protagonist in the story of the Holocaust

The Terezn Diary of Gonda Redlich

Author : Saul S. Friedman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813128283
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book The Terezn Diary of Gonda Redlich written by Saul S. Friedman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914

Author : Marsha L. Rozenblit
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438418159
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914 by : Marsha L. Rozenblit

Download or read book The Jews of Vienna, 1867-1914 written by Marsha L. Rozenblit and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ablaze with excitement, effervescent with creativity—late nineteenth-century Vienna was the ideal site for this analysis of the ways in which a sizable and significant group of Jews was assimilated into European society. After leaving homes in the Austrian and Hungarian provinces and migrating to the Austrian capital, the Jews underwent a variety of profound changes. The Jews of Vienna shows how they successfully transformed old, identifiably Jewish patterns of behavior into modern urban variations, without abandoning their ethnic identity in the process. Marsha L. Rozenblit describes the Jews' migration to Vienna, the occupational changes they experienced in the city, where and how they lived, the various means they used to achieve social integration, and the vibrant network of Jewish organizations they established. As they evolved new patterns of urban Jewish life, the Viennese immigrants also created ideologies which defined the place of the Jew in European society. Rozenblit shows how this urbanization led to social change while simultaneously providing the necessary demographic foundation for continued Jewish identity in modern Europe.

The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania

Author : Herman Kruk
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300044941
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania written by Herman Kruk and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widely scattered pages of the diaries, collected here for the first time, have been meticulously deciphered, translated, and annotated for this volume.".

Values and Violence in Auschwitz

Author : Anna Pawełczyńska
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520042421
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Values and Violence in Auschwitz written by Anna Pawełczyńska and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theresienstadt 1941-1945

Author : H. G. Adler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521881463
Total Pages : 885 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Book Synopsis Theresienstadt 1941-1945 by : H. G. Adler

Download or read book Theresienstadt 1941-1945 written by H. G. Adler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-06 with total page 885 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language edition of H. G. Adler's acclaimed account of the Jewish ghetto in the Czech city of Terezin.

Historians and Nationalism

Author : Monika Baár
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199581185
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Historians and Nationalism written by Monika Baár and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monika Baár examines the work of five prominent East-Central European historians in the 19th century, analyzing and contrasting their body of work, their promotion of a national culture, and the contributions they made to European historiography.

Different Horrors, Same Hell

Author : Myrna Goldenberg
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804572
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Different Horrors, Same Hell written by Myrna Goldenberg and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Different Horrors, Same Hell brings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysis make to the study of the Holocaust. The collection provides new perspectives on central works of Holocaust scholarship and representation, from the books of Hannah Arendt and Ruth Kl�ger to films such as Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Interviews with survivors and their descendants draw new attention to the significance of women's roles and family structures during and in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and interviews and archival research reveal the undercurrents of sexual violence within the Final Solution. As Doris Bergen shows in the book's first chapter, the focus on women's and gender issues in this collection "complicates familiar and outworn categories, and humanizes the past in powerful ways."

National Cleansing

Author : Benjamin Frommer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521008969
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book National Cleansing written by Benjamin Frommer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Cleansing examines the prosecution of more than one-hundred thousand suspected war criminals and collaborators by Czech courts and tribunals after the Second World War. As the first comprehensive history of postwar Czech retribution, this book provides a new perspective on Czechoslovakia's transition from Nazi occupation to Stalinist rule in the turbulent decade from the Munich Pact of September 1938 to the Communist coup d'état of February 1948. Based on archival sources that remained inaccessible during the Cold War, National Cleansing demonstrates retribution's central role in the postwar power struggle and the contemporary expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.

Becoming Austrians

Author : Lisa Silverman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199942722
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Austrians written by Lisa Silverman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of Austria-Hungary in 1918 left all Austrians in a state of political, social, and economic turmoil, but Jews in particular found their lives shaken to the core. Although Jews' former comfort zone suddenly disappeared, the dissolution of the Dual Monarchy also created plenty of room for innovation and change in the realm of culture. Jews eagerly took up the challenge to fill this void, and they became heavily invested in culture as a way to shape their new, but also vexed, self-understandings. By isolating the years between the World Wars and examining formative events in both Vienna and the provinces, Becoming Austrians: Jews and Culture between the World Wars demonstrates that an intensified marking of people, places, and events as "Jewish" accompanied the crises occurring in the wake of Austria-Hungary's collapse, with profound effects on Austria's cultural legacy. In some cases, the consequences of this marking resulted in grave injustices. Philipp Halsmann, for example, was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his father years before he became a world-famous photographer. And the men who shot and killed writer Hugo Bettauer and philosopher Moritz Schlick received inadequate punishment for their murderous deeds. But engagements with the terms of Jewish difference also characterized the creation of culture, as shown in Hugo Bettauer's satirical novel The City without Jews and its film adaptation, other texts by Veza Canetti, David Vogel, A.M. Fuchs, Vicki Baum, and Mela Hartwig, and performances at the Salzburg Festival and the Yiddish theater in Vienna. By examining the lives, works, and deeds of a broad range of Austrians, Lisa Silverman reveals how the social codings of politics, gender, and nation received a powerful boost when articulated along the lines of Jewish difference.

University Over the Abyss

Author : Elena Makarova
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789654240352
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book University Over the Abyss written by Elena Makarova and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

To Be an Actress

Author : Nava Shean
Publisher : Hamilton Books
ISBN 13 : 0761855637
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book To Be an Actress written by Nava Shean and published by Hamilton Books. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In To Be an Actress, Nava Shean tells about her life on the stage: from children's theater in Prague to traveling theater in the Czech countryside, to performances of prisoners in Terezin concentration camp, to Israel's national theater, Munich State theater, and her one-woman shows. The common theme that runs through the memoir is Ms. Shean's passion for the theater and her dedication to acting despite excruciating circumstances. The memoir provides first-hand account of life in Terezin concentration camp and the incredible artistic activity under the shadow of the transports to the death camps. It also portrays the author's reconnection with her Jewish heritage against the background of her family's assimilation. Upon her arrival in Israel in 1948, Ms. Shean took part in the development of the Israeli theater, an alliance that continued into the 1980s and culminated in her one-woman show Requiem in Terezin.

The Devil's Wall

Author : Mark Cornwall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674064895
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Wall written by Mark Cornwall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legend has it that twenty miles of volcanic rock rising through the landscape of northern Bohemia was the work of the devil, who separated the warring Czechs and Germans by building a wall. The nineteenth-century invention of the Devil's Wall was evidence of rising ethnic tensions. In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical mission to try to restore German influence across the region. Mark Cornwall tells the story of Heinz Rutha, an internationally recognized figure in his day, who was the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space. Through a narrative that unravels the threads of Rutha's own repressed sexuality, Cornwall shows how Czech authorities misinterpreted Rutha's mission as sexual deviance and in 1937 charged him with corrupting adolescents. The resulting scandal led to Rutha's imprisonment, suicide, and excommunication from the nationalist cause he had devoted his life to furthering. Cornwall is the first historian to tackle the long-taboo subject of how youth, homosexuality, and nationalism intersected in a fascist environment. "The Devil's Wall" also challenges the notion that all Sudeten German nationalists were Nazis, and supplies a fresh explanation for Britain's appeasement of Hitler, showing why the British might justifiably have supported the 1930s Sudeten German cause. In this readable biography of an ardent German Bohemian who participated as perpetrator, witness, and victim, Cornwall radically reassesses the Czech-German struggle of early twentieth-century Europe.

Prague in Black

Author : Chad Bryant
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674024519
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (245 download)

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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.

The Era of the Witness

Author : Annette Wieviorka
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801443312
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book The Era of the Witness written by Annette Wieviorka and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of the survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? In this book, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, the author seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question.