TY - BOOK ID - 5327233 TI - Histories of the Holocaust PY - 2010 SN - 0853034788 0853034907 0191614203 0300216033 1282661159 9786612661150 0191585084 9780191585081 9780199566792 0199566798 9780199566808 0199566801 PB - Oxford New York Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Holocauste, 1939-1945 KW - Historiography. KW - Historiographie KW - Concentration camps KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - HISTORY / Holocaust. KW - European War, 1939-1945 KW - Second World War, 1939-1945 KW - World War 2, 1939-1945 KW - World War II, 1939-1945 KW - World War Two, 1939-1945 KW - WW II (World War, 1939-1945) KW - WWII (World War, 1939-1945) KW - History, Modern KW - Liberation of World War II concentration camps KW - Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) KW - Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Holocaust, Nazi KW - Ḥurban (1939-1945) KW - Ḥurbn (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) KW - Jews KW - Nazi Holocaust KW - Nazi persecution of Jews KW - Shoʾah (1939-1945) KW - Genocide KW - Kindertransports (Rescue operations) KW - Death camps KW - Detention camps KW - Extermination camps KW - Internment camps KW - Detention of persons KW - Military camps KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Europe. KW - Liberation. KW - Refugees. KW - Displaced persons KW - Civilian relief KW - Forced repatriation KW - Nazi persecution KW - Persecutions KW - Atrocities KW - Jewish resistance KW - History as a science KW - History of Germany and Austria KW - anno 1930-1939 KW - anno 1940-1949 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5327233 AB - A moving, deeply researched account of survivors' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors-their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors' immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead. ER -