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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945.
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ISBN: 0253023866 9780253023865 9780253353283 0253353289 9780253354280 0253354285 9780253354297 0253354293 9780253355997 9780253002266 9780253002273 9780253023735 0253023734 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press,

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Documentation of hundreds of smaller sites--previously unknown or overlooked in the historiography of the Holocaust--make this an indispensable reference work on the destroyed Jewish communities of Eastern Europe.

The first guidebook to prisons and concentration camps of the Soviet Union
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ISBN: 0553013920 Year: 1982 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Bantam books

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Interpreting in Nazi concentration camps
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ISBN: 9781501313264 9781501313257 9781501313271 9781501313288 1501313266 1501313258 1501313274 1501313282 1501313290 9781501313295 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,

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"This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. With German as the only official language in the lager, communication was vital to the prisoners' survival. While in the last few decades there has been extensive research on the language used by the camp inmates, investigation into the mediating role of interpreters between SS guards and prisoners on the one hand, and among inmates on the other, has been almost nonexistent. On the basis of Primo Levi's considerations on communication in the Nazi concentrationary system, this book investigates the ambivalent role of interpreting in the camps. One of the central questions is what the role of interpreting was in the wider context of shaping life in concentration camps. And in what way did the knowledge of languages, and accordingly, certain communication skills, contribute to the survival of concentration camp inmates and of the interpreting person? The main sources under investigation are both archive materials and survivors' memoirs and testimonials in various languages. On a different level, Translation in Nazi Concentration Camps also asks in what way the study of communication in concentration camps enhances our understanding of the ambiguous role of interpreting in more general terms. And in what way does the study of interpreting in concentration camps shape an interpreting concept which can help us to better understand the violent nature of interpreting in contexts other than the Holocaust? "--Bloomsbury Publishing. "Innovative anthology that brings together leading figures in both translation studies and Holocaust studies to explore the role of interpreting in shaping life in Nazi concentration camps and the encompassing ethical questions that are raised about interpreting in general"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945.
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ISBN: 0253003504 9780253003508 9780253353283 0253353289 9780253354280 0253354285 9780253354297 0253354293 Year: 2009 Publisher: Indiana University Press

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This monumental 7-volume encyclopedia, the result of years of work by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will describe the universe of camps and ghettos-some 20,000 in all-that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference work will provide detailed information on each individual site.This first volume covers three groups of camps: the early camps that the Nazis established in the first year of Hitler''s rule, the major SS concentration camps with their co


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Postcards from Auschwitz : Holocaust Tourism and the Meaning of Remembrance
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ISBN: 1479819999 1479860433 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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The uneasy link between tourism and collective memory at Holocaust museums and memorials Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated with the Nazi genocide of European Jewry has become an increasingly vital component in the evolving collective remembrance of the Holocaust. Responding to the tendency to dismiss tourism as commercial, superficial, or voyeuristic, Reynolds insists that we take a closer look at a phenomenon that has global reach, takes many forms, and serves many interests. The book focuses on some of the most prominent sites of mass murder in Europe, and then expands outward to more recent memorial museums. Reynolds provides a historically-informed account of the different forces that have shaped Holocaust tourism since 1945, including Cold War politics, the sudden emergence of the "memory boom" beginning in the 1980s, and the awareness that eyewitnesses to the Holocaust are passing away. Based on his on-site explorations, the contributions from researchers in Holocaust studies and tourism studies, and the observations of tourists themselves, this book reveals how tourism is an important part of efforts to understand and remember the Holocaust, an event that continues to challenge ideals about humanity and our capacity to learn from the past.


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Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp, 1942-1944.
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ISBN: 9781609174590 1609174593 9781611861709 1611861705 1628952318 Year: 2015 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified]

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How did "ordinary women," like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder examines the daily work of twenty-eight women employed by the SS to oversee prisoners in the concentration and death camp Majdanek/Lublin in Poland. Many female SS overseers in Majdanek perpetrated violence and terrorized prisoners not only when ordered to do so but also on their own initiative. The social order of the concentration camp, combined with individual propensities, shaped a microcosm in which violence became endemic to workaday life. The author's analysis of Nazi records, court testimony, memoirs, and film interviews illuminates the guards' social backgrounds, careers, and motives as well as their day-to-day behavior during free time and on the "job," as they supervised prisoners on work detail and in the cell blocks, conducted roll calls, and "selected" girls and women for death in the gas chambers. Scrutinizing interactions and conflicts among female guards, relations with male colleagues and superiors, and internal hierarchies, Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence shows how work routines, pressure to "resolve problems," material gratification, and Nazi propaganda stressing guards' roles in "creating a new order" heightened female overseers' identification with Nazi policies and radicalized their behavior.--Publisher.


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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945.
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ISBN: 0253002028 0253355990 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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This volume offers a comprehensive account of how the Nazis conducted the Holocaust throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union. It covers more than 1,150 sites, including both open and closed ghettos. Regional essays outline the patterns of ghettoization in 19 German administrative regions. Each entry discusses key events in the history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses to persecution; demographic changes; and details of the ghetto's liquidation. Personal testimonies help convey the character of


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Allied internment camps in Occupied Germany : extrajudicial detention in the name of denazification, 1945-1950
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ISBN: 1108852750 1108767532 1108487637 1108720730 9781108720731 9781108487634 1108852173 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Between 1945 and 1950, approximately 130,000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including in former Nazi concentration camps. One third of detainees died, prompting comparisons with Nazi terror. But what about the western zones, where the Americans, British, and French also detained hundreds of thousands of Germans without trial? This first in-depth study compares internment by all four occupying powers, asking who was interned, how they were treated, and when and why they were arrested and released. It confirms the incomparably appalling conditions and death rates in the Soviet camps but identifies similarities in other respects. Andrew H. Beattie argues that internment everywhere was an inherently extrajudicial measure with punitive and preventative dimensions that aimed to eradicate Nazism and create a new Germany. By recognising its true nature and extent, he suggests that denazification was more severe and coercive but also more differentiated and complex than previously thought.


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Das letzte Urteil : Die Medien und der Demjanjuk-Prozess
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ISBN: 3486721127 3486716980 Year: 2012 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Im Mai 2009 wurde John (Iwan) Demjanjuk von den USA nach Deutschland ausgewiesen. Ein halbes Jahr später begann in München ein Strafprozess gegen ihn: er hatte angeblich als Angehöriger der "Trawniki" (Hilfswilliger der SS) im Vernichtungslager Sobibór beim Mord an 28.000 Juden geholfen. Den Auftakt der Verhandlung gegen den gebürtigen Ukrainer verfolgten Hunderte Journalisten aus allen Kontinenten. Der "letzte große NS-Prozess" war aus Mediensicht ein Weltereignis. Doch verebbte das Interesse rasch wieder, denn die Sitzungen verliefen zäh und unspektakulär. Schließlich verurteilte das Landgericht Demjanjuk im Mai 2011 zu fünf Jahren Haft wegen Beihilfe zum Mord. Doch da die Prozessparteien Revision einlegten, wurde er in ein Altenheim in Oberbayern eingewiesen, wo er im März 2012 starb. Rainer Volk hat den Prozess als Journalist und Historiker von Beginn an verfolgt und analysiert die Berichterstattung über einen Fall, der für Zeithistoriker wie Juristen viele Fragen aufwarf.


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Справочник по ГУЛагу : исторический словарь советских пенитенциарных институций и терминов, связанных с принудительным трудом
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ISBN: 0903868970 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Overseas Publications Interchange

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