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Arrachés et déplacés : réfugiés politiques, prisonniers de guerre, déportés : 1789-1918
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ISBN: 9782845167377 2845167377 9782845167384 2845167385 Year: 2016 Publisher: Clermont-Ferrand : Presses universitaires Blaise Pascal,


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Bergen-Belsen 1945 : a medical student's journal
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ISBN: 1783263210 9781783263219 1783262885 Year: 2014 Publisher: London : Imperial College Press,

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Between 1941 and 1945 as many as 70,000 inmates died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northwestern Germany. The exact number will never be known. A large number of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and disease, mainly typhus, shortly before and after liberation. It was at this time, in April of 1945, that Michael Hargrave answered a notice at the Westminster Hospital Medical School for 'volunteers'. On the day of his departure the 21-year-old learned that he was being sent to Bergen-Belsen, liberated only two weeks before. This firsthand account, a diary written for his mother


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A promise at Sobibór : a Jewish boy's story of revolt and survival in Nazi-occupied Poland
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ISBN: 1283990997 0299248038 9780299248031 0299248003 9780299248000 9781283990998 9780299248000 9780299248048 0299248046 Year: 2010 Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,


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The Jewish Women of Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
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ISBN: 0299198634 Year: 2006 Publisher: [Madison, Wisconsin] : Terrace Books,

Testimony from the Nazi camps : French women's voices
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ISBN: 1280175338 0203339789 9781134273393 0415349338 1138010286 1134273398 9780203339787 9781134273348 9781134273386 9780415349338 9781138010284 113427338X Year: 2005 Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This interdisciplinary study integrates historiographical, literary and cultural methodologies in its focus on a little known corpus of testimonial accounts published by French women deported to Nazi camps. Comprising epistemological and literary analyses of the accounts and an examination of the construction of deportee identities, it will interest those working in the fields of modern French literature, genre, women's studies and the Holocaust.


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Political Survivors : The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945
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ISBN: 1501732803 Year: 2019 Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press,

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In 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as a "hallucinatory repetition" of Nazi Germany's most terrible crime. In Political Survivors, Emma Kuby tells the riveting story of what followed his appeal, as prominent members of the wartime Resistance from throughout Western Europe united to campaign against the continued existence of inhumane internment systems around the world. The International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime brought together those originally deported for acts of anti-Nazi political activity who believed that their unlikely survival incurred a duty to bear witness for other victims. Over the course of the next decade, these pioneering activists crusaded to expose political imprisonment, forced labor, and other crimes against humanity in Franco's Spain, Maoist China, French Algeria, and beyond. Until now, the CIA's secret funding of Rousset's movement has remained in the shadows. Kuby reveals this clandestine arrangement between European camp survivors and American intelligence agents. She also brings to light how Jewish Holocaust victims were systematically excluded from Commission membership - a choice that fueled the group's rise, but also helped lead to its premature downfall. The history that she unearths provides a striking new vision of how wartime memory shaped European intellectual life and ideological struggle after 1945, showing that the key lessons Western Europeans drew from the war centered on "the camp," imagined first and foremost as a site of political repression rather than ethnic genocide. Political Survivors argues that Cold War dogma and acrimony, tied to a distorted understanding of WWII's chief atrocities, overshadowed the humanitarian possibilities of the nascent anti-concentration camp movement as Europe confronted the violent decolonizing struggles of the 1950s.


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Bitter reckoning : Israel tries Holocaust survivors as Nazi collaborators
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ISBN: 0674243137 0674243129 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Digging into newly declassified archives, Dan Porat unearths the story of Jews prosecuted by the State of Israel for Nazi collaboration. Over time courts and the public came to see Jewish ghetto administrators or kapos as tragic figures. Rigorous yet humane, Porat invites us to rethink ideas about victimhood, justice, and collective memory. In December 1945, a Polish-born commuter on a Tel Aviv bus recognized a fellow rider as the former head of a town council the Nazis had established to manage the Jews. When he denounced the man as a collaborator, the rider leapt off the bus, pursued by passengers intent on beating him to death. Five years later, to address ongoing tensions within Holocaust survivor communities, the state of Israel instituted the criminal prosecution of Jews who had served as ghetto administrators or as kapos in concentration camps. Dan Porat brings to light more than three dozen little-known trials, held over the following two decades, of survivors charged with Nazi collaboration. Scouring police investigation files and trial records, he found accounts of Jewish policemen and camp functionaries who harassed, beat, robbed, and even murdered their brethren. But as the trials exposed the tragic experiences of the kapos, over time the courts and the public shifted from seeing them as evil collaborators to victims themselves, and the fervor to prosecute them abated. Porat shows how these trials changed Israel's understanding of the Holocaust and explores how the suppression of the trial records--long classified by the state and to this day withheld by Yad Vashem--affected history and memory. Sensitive to the devastating options confronting those who chose to collaborate, yet rigorous in its analysis, Bitter Reckoning invites us to rethink our ideas of collaboration and justice and to consider what it means to be a victim in extraordinary circumstances.--

Hans Reichmann : Deutscher Bürger und verfolgter Jude. Novemberpogrom und KZ Sachsenhausen 1937-1939
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ISBN: 3486707833 3486563394 Year: 1998 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Hans Reichmann, ehemals Syndikus des Centralvereins deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens, schildert in seinen Aufzeichnungen aus dem Londoner Exil eindringlich die Verfolgung der deutschen Juden in den Jahren 1939 bis 1939. Reichmann wurde wie Zehntausende anderer Juden 1938 im Zuge des November-Pogroms, der sogenannten Reichskristallnacht, verhaftet und in das Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen verschleppt. Sein schon im Sommer 1939 niedergeschriebener Bericht über das Lagersystem und die besonderen körperlichen und seelischen Mißhandlungen an den jüdischen Häftlingen ist in seiner Unmittelbarkeit ein eindruckvolles und erschütterndes Dokument deutsch-jüdischer Geschichte unter nationalsozialistischer Herrschaft. Leseprobe: "Das Lachen wird ihnen inzwischen in der Kehle erstickt sein." Das Wort schneidet wie ein Messer. Ein kleiner Mann rächt sich. Sonderbar! Ein kleiner Mann erschüttert die Welt. Sie zittert vor ihm. Und ich kann mich noch immer nicht verstehen, den kleinen Mann groß zu sehen, so groß, wie ihn seine Propaganda oder der Haß seiner Feinde macht. Ich weiß, was er angerichtet hat, ich spüre die Realität seiner Macht an mir, nichts und niemand, der solchen Einfluß auf meinen Lebensgang genommen hätte. Der erste Gedanke, wenn ich erwachte und der letzte, wenn endlich der Schlaf kam, den mir sein Wüten so selten ließ. Er hat mir alles genommen, was ich besaß, zweimal den Beruf, Freunde, Familie, Wohnung und Vermögen, er treibt mich aus meinem Vaterland, er wird mich weiter treiben, sein Krieg wird mich verfolgen, seine Bomben und das Giftgas seiner Propaganda, und doch vermag ich nicht, die Persönlichkeit Hitler ernst zu nehmen, den Hysteriker, den Judenfresser, den rachsüchtigen Bösewicht. Die Welt sieht Genialität und Dämonie, ich sehe nur einen genial-dämonischen Zug: die infernalische Verachtung des Menschen, seines eigenen Volkes, dem er schonungslos jede Brutalität, jedes Opfer an Gut, Gesinnung und Leben, jede Gefolgschaft für Abenteuer Jules Vernescher Phantasie zumutet und mit seinem Terror aufzwingt. Der Führer hat das Signal aufgenommen, daß sein 10.November gellend gegeben hat: "Deutschland muß judenrein werden". Entmachtung, Entrechtung, Enteignung - jede Forderung so ungeheuerlich, daß kaum die Radikalsten der Radikalen sie auszusprechen wagten. Aber als das deutsche Volk die Hetzer währen ließ, als kein Proteststurm sie hinwegfegte, als die Auslands-Antwort zwar störte, aber doch nicht realpolitisch gefährlich wurde, da steigerten sich die Haß- und Vernichtungsgelüste des regierenden Pöbels ins Sinnlos-Maßlose. Und was kein Nazipogrom je gefordert, wurde zur Regierungsparole: "Deutschland muß judenrein werden - die Juden müssen raus!" In hundert Abwandlungen tönte sie uns nun entgegen, bald mitleidsvoll, bald schadenfroh, bald gleichgültig das Unabänderliche feststellend, bald haßerfüllt triumphierend.


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Przemysłowa concentration camp : the camp, the children, the trials
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ISBN: 9783031139482 3031139488 303113947X Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores one of the most notorious aspects of the German system of oppression in wartime Poland: the only purpose-built camp for children under the age of 16 years in German-occupied Europe. The camp at Przemysłowa street, or the Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt as the Germans called it, was a concentration camp for children. The camp at Przemysłowa existed for just over two years, from December 1942 until January 1945. During that time, an unknown number of children, mainly Polish nationals, were imprisoned there and subjected to extreme physical and emotional abuse. For almost all, the consequences of atrocities which they endured in the camp remained with them for the rest of their lives. This book focuses on the establishment of the camp, the experience of the child prisoners, and the post-war investigations and trials. It is based on contemporary German documents, post-war Polish trials and German investigations, as well as dozens of testimonies from camp survivors, guards, civilian camp staff and the camp leadership Katarzyna Person is a historian of the Holocaust working at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Johannes-Dieter Steinert is Professor of Modern European History and Migration Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.

We wept without tears : testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz
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ISBN: 1281722804 9786611722807 0300131984 9780300131987 0300106513 9780300106510 9780300211979 030021197X 9781281722805 6611722807 Year: 2005 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press,

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The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before. Over a period of years, Gideon Greif interviewed intensively all Sonderkommando survivors living in Israel. They describe not only the details of the German-Nazi killing program but also the moral and human challenges they faced. The book provides direct testimony about the "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem," but it is also a unique document on the boundless cruelty and deceit practiced by the Germans. It documents the helplessness and powerlessness of the one-and-a-half million people, 90 percent of them Jews, who were brutally murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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