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After Eichmann : Collective Memory and Holocaust since 1961.
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ISBN: 0203086880 113682751X 9781136827518 1136827587 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York : Florence : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group [distributor]

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In 1961 Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Jerusalem for his part in the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Europe's Jews. For the first time a judicial process focussed on the genocide against the Jews and heard Jewish witnesses to the catastrophe. The trial and the controversies it caused had a profound effect on shaping the collective memory of what became 'the Holocaust'. This volume, a special issue of the Journal of Israeli History, brings together new research by scholars from Europe, Israel and the USA.

Crimes of the Holocaust : the law confronts hard cases
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ISBN: 0812238478 1322511276 0812202570 Year: 2005 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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The problem of prosecuting individuals complicit in the Nazi regime's "Final Solution" is almost insurmountably complex and has produced ever less satisfying results as time has passed. In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analysis of the International Military Tribunal prosecution at Nuremberg in 1945, the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961, the 1986 Demanjuk trial in Israel, and the 1990 prosecution of Imre Finta in Canada. Landsman presents each case and elaborates the difficulties inherent in achieving both a fair trial and a measure of justice in the aftermath of heinous crimes. In the face of few historical and legal precedents for such war crime prosecutions, each legal action relies on the framework of its predecessors. However, this only compounds the problematic issues arising from the Nuremberg proceedings.Meticulously combing volumes of testimony and documentary information about each case, Landsman offers judicious and critical assessments of the proceedings. He levels pointed criticism at numerous elements of this relatively recent judicial invention, sparing neither judges nor counsel and remaining keenly aware of the human implications. Deftly weaving legal analysis with cultural context, Landsman offers the first rigorous examination of these problematic proceedings and proposes guideposts for contemporary tribunals. Crimes of the Holocaust is an authoritative account of the Gordian knot of genocide prosecution in the world courts, which will persist as a confounding issue as we are faced with a trial of Saddam Hussein. This volume will be compelling reading for legal scholars as well as laypersons interested in these cases and the issues they address.

The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia
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ISBN: 1280423757 9786610423750 0803205023 9780803205024 9781280423758 0803239521 9780803239524 661042375X 0803240074 Year: 2005 Publisher: Lincoln Jerusalem University of Nebraska Press Yad Vashem

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"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."--Jacket.


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Pelgrim in Auschwitz
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ISBN: 9064453675 Year: 2005 Publisher: Berchem EPO

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Auschwitz, 60 ans après.
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ISBN: 2221102983 9782221102985 Year: 2005 Publisher: Paris Laffont

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Auschwitz, qui résume en un lieu et en un nom la criminalité du régime nazi, est aujourd'hui illisible: il est devenu une sorte d'écran où individus et collectivités projettent leurs cauchemars ou leurs rêves. Visites de représentants de l'Église, d'hommes d'État, d'individus sur les traces d'un proche: il semble que tous ces pèlerinages, ces discours, ces commémorations ont blasé nos contemporains et brouillé la réalité du camp d'Auschwitz-Birkenau, déconnecté de son histoire pour devenir un concept, un symbole ou le tremplin d'une conscience européenne. Rendre Auschwitz à l'Histoire c'est, loin de le ranger dans un tiroir, le rendre à sa réalité, reconstituer ce qu'il fut, ce que fut son évolution, mais aussi, par là même, comprendre les enjeux des polémiques qui naissent autour de sa mémoire. C'est encore donner un sens au camp-musée qu'il est devenu en interrogeant et en restituant précisément l'histoire des vestiges autour duquel il a été conçu: la découverte du camp par les soldats de l'Armée rouge, sa construction en fonction de la population à laquelle il a d'abord été destiné, celle de l'énorme complexe de destruction de Birkenau où un million de Juifs furent assassinés, la signification du numéro matricule tatoué, etc. Alors qu'abondent les études évoquant tel ou tel aspect de la Shoah, que les témoignages de survivants se multiplient, ce livre d'Annette Wieviorka est le premier ouvrage français retraçant l'histoire du complexe de camps d'Auschwitz.

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Concentration camps --- Camps de concentration --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- Birkenau (Concentration camp) --- Jews --- Persecutions --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Genocide --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Nazi persecution --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp) --- Jews - Persecutions - Europe. --- Concentration camps - Poland. --- Juifs --- Auschwitz (pologne ; camp de concentration) --- Extermination (1941-1945)

What we knew : terror, mass murder, and everyday life in Nazi Germany : an oral history
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ISBN: 0465085717 9780465085729 0465085725 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Basic Books

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What We Knew offers the most startling oral history ever done of life in the Third Reich. Combining the expertise of a German sociologist and an American historian, it draws on both gripping oral histories and a unique survey of 4,000 people-both German Jews and non-Jewish Germans, who lived under the Third Reich. It directly addresses some of the most fundamental questions we have about the Nazi regime, particularly regarding anti-Semitism, issues of guilt and ignorance, popular support for the government, and the nature of the dictatorship itself. Johnson and Reuband's original research confirms that both Germans and Jews were aware of the mass murder of European Jews as it was occurring. From the responses of Jewish survivors, German anti-Semitism wasn't universal among their neighbors and colleagues, even as they experienced official mistreatment. Additionally, the authors' research suggests that Hitler and National Socialism were genuinely popular among ordinary Germans and that intimidation and terror played no great part in enforcing loyalty. Refuting long-held assumptions, the discoveries revealed in What We Knew are key to our understanding of life in the Third Reich, and make this book a central work for scholars of the Holocaust, World War II, and totalitarianism. Drawing on interviews with four thousand German Jews and non-Jewish Germans who experienced the Third Reich firsthand, an intriguing oral history describes everyday life in Nazi Germany, addressing such issues as guilt and ignorance concerning the mass murder of European Jews, anti-Semitism, and the popular appeal of Hitler and National Socialism.

Buried by the Times : the Holocaust and America's most important newspaper
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ISBN: 0521607825 1316260747 1316262189 131626260X 110705091X 1316265048 1316263584 1316266133 9781316266137 9781316263587 9781107050914 0521812879 9780521812870 0521812879 9780521812870 9780521607827 9781316260746 9781316262184 9781316265048 1322522065 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939-45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the ethos of mid-century America, all led The Times to consistently downplay news of the Holocaust. It recalls how news of Hitler's 'final solution' was hidden from readers and - because of the newspaper's influence on other media - from America at large. Buried by The Times is required reading for anyone interested in America's response to the Holocaust and for anyone curious about how journalists determine what is newsworthy.

On Austrian soil : teaching those I was taught to hate
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ISBN: 0791483592 1423743946 9781423743941 0791463893 9780791463895 0791463907 9780791463901 9780791483596 Year: 2005 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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Jakub's World : A Boy's Story of Loss and Survival in the Holocaust
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ISBN: 0791483495 1423744039 9781423744030 0791464075 9780791464076 0791464083 9780791464083 9780791483497 Year: 2005 Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press,

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When German troops come to the small village of BeÂzŒyce, Poland, in 1939, nine-year-old Jakub Szabmacher's world is forever changed. At first the humiliations inflicted by the Germans seem small, but the conditions worsen until eventually Jakub's family and much of his village are murdered, and he is sent to various concentration camps in Poland and Germany, where he struggles to survive the terrible conditions of camp life. Finally liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp in Flossenbürg, Germany, Jakub is befriended by American troops and with their help brought to the United States, where he takes the name Jack Terry. Coauthor Alicia Nitecki, whose grandfather was also imprisoned at Flossenbürg, uses Terry's personal memories to tell young Jakub's story, as well as unpublished memoirs, private letters, and interviews with former inmates of the Flossenbürg concentration camp and the townspeople of BeÂzŒyce and Flossenbürg. Part history, part autobiography, Jakub's World offers an anguished young boy's perspective on the Holocaust.

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