Author: Raymond Roscoe
Publisher: R Roscoe
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Film Treatment Available to legitimate producers Brief Overview: At just 14 years old, a boy from Liverpool, England, borrows his older brother’s birth certificate to pursue a dream of adventure at sea. In 1937, he joined a ship owned by the Harrison Line, enjoying three years of life at sea before World War II erupted. In 1940, his unarmed cargo ship is attacked by a German Raider disguised as a Swedish vessel. The Raider’s crew mercilessly plunders the ship before sinking it, killing some crew members and taking the rest, including the young boy, as prisoners of war. Journey to Drancy: After months of captivity at sea, the boy and his fellow POWs are transported to occupied France and confined in Drancy, a concentration camp notorious for its inhumane conditions. There, they endure torture, starvation, and the constant fear of being sent to Auschwitz. Drancy is a place of horror, where the screams of tortured men, women, and children fill the night. After six agonizing months, the boy is transferred to various German POW camps, where he continues to struggle for survival amidst gruelling conditions and dangerous escape attempts. He remains a POW until six months after the war’s end, finally returning to a world that has drastically changed. Post-War Injustice: Forty years after the war, Germany established a compensation fund for those who suffered in the Drancy Concentration Camp, France. However, when a British MP seeks to secure the compensation that Germany awarded for the few British survivors of Drancy, the government tribunal refuses, dismissing Drancy as merely a "transit camp." This decision stands in stark contrast to overwhelming evidence from survivors, historians, and authorities in Germany, France, Israel, and beyond, who recognize Drancy's true nature as a concentration camp. A full twenty-page stenographer's transcript of the tribunal meeting is included in the book
Author: Laura Rascaroli
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190656395
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic, anti-systematic and disjunctive mode of resistance, and capitalizing on the centrality of the interstice in Deleuze's understanding of the cinema as image of thought, the book discusses the essay film as future philosophy-as a contrarian, political cinema whose argumentation engages with us in a space beyond the verbal. A diverse range of case studies discloses how the essay film can be a medium of thought on the basis of its dialectic use of audiovisual interstitiality. The book shows how the essay film's disjunctive method comes to be realized at the level of medium, montage, genre, temporality, sound, narration, and framing-all of these emerging as interstitial spaces of intelligence that illustrate how essayistic meaning can be sustained, often in contexts of political, historical or cultural extremity. The essayistic urge is not to be identified with a fixed generic form, but is rather situated within processes of filmic thinking that thrive in gaps.
Author: Raymond Roscoe
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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'Drancy - Journey's End!' - is a 220 page, 52,000 word novelised book based on the true account of Thomas Roscoe that stretches from 1937 - 1993 and attempts to view things as he would have done at such a young age. At the age of 14 years and 6 months, my Thomas joined a small cargo ship to fulfill a childhood dream to see the world. Little did he know that dream was to be cut short a few years later with the outbreak of WWII when his ship was mercilessly attacked by the German armed raider known only as ship 'D' to the British Admiralty. He and his surviving crew mates were taken prisoner aboard a German raider. After some months they were transferred to number of POW camps walking distances of up to 18 miles as they were force marched from one camp to another, including the notorious concentration camp Drancy at one stage under the control of SS First Lieutenant Klaus Barbie - the 'Butcher of Lyon'. In the early 1990s he and his surviving crew-mates applied for a share of compensation that German Government had awarded them for their experience in Drancy. However, they were denied that compensation by the British Government tribunal who said, "Our definition of a Concentration camp differs from that of Germany and Israel," a disgraceful comment and an insult to those innocent men, women and children who were murdered, tortured and raped there.In addition, the House of Commons transcript of that meeting in the book shows that it was held late at night so the press wouldn't be there. That transcript exposes the lies that the tribunal spoke. This story needs to be told because of what happened during that time and in 1993 at the meeting. It still leaves questions that need to be answered; Why the denial about Drancy? Where did the compensation go that Germany gave? Why was this suppressed all these years? Why haven't governmental archives been updated? Why didn't the government effect a release of my father and his colleagues after the war instead of waiting a year or more?
Author: Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Rosetta Books
ISBN: 0795346832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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A thoughtful and rigorous examination of the Jewish experience under Hitler’s “Final Solution”—based on eyewitness accounts and contemporary evidence. Focusing on firsthand narratives from survivors and supported by contextual scholarship, Gilbert presents a masterful cross-section of the experiences of the millions of European Jews who lost their homes, careers, families, and lives at the hands of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” The accounts of these journeys are at once unique and unified by both their tragedy and by their triumphs. Gilbert’s vast knowledge on the subject, coupled with his frank and readable style, makes Final Journey accessible to readers and scholars alike. The text is supported by eighty-four photographs—many of which were published for the first time in 1979—and twenty-four pages of maps prepared by the author, which help bring the stories of the men, women, and children back to life in unflinching detail.
Author: Oscar Mann
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 076183236X
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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In this touching and courageous memoir, Oscar Mann recounts his boyhood in France, the onset of World War II and the Holocaust, his immigration to America, and his years in the military and as a doctor. Mann's honest narrative offers us a glimpse into his past and a critical time in 20th century history and reminds us all of the power of hope. Visit the authors website for more information along with many unique images that help to visually support the author's story.
Author: Sara R. Horowitz
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438481756
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The essays in Shadows in the City of Light explore the significance of Paris in the writing of five influential French writers—Sarah Kofman, Patrick Modiano, George Perec, Henri Raczymow, and Irene Nemirovsky—whose novels and memoirs capture and probe the absences of deported Paris Jews. These writers move their readers through wartime and postwar cityscapes of Paris, walking them through streets and arrondissments where Jews once resided, looking for traces of the disappeared. The city functions as more than a backdrop or setting. Its streets and buildings and monuments remind us of the exhilarating promise of the French Revolution and what it meant for Jews dreaming of equality. But the dynamic space of Paris also reminds us of the Holocaust and its aftermath. The shadowed paths traced by these writers raise complicated questions about ambivalence, absence, memory, secularity, and citizenship. In their writing, the urban landscape itself bears witness to the absent Jews, and what happened to them. For the writers treated in this volume, neither their Frenchness nor their Jewishness is a fixed point. Focusing on Paris's dual role as both a cultural hub and a powerful symbol of hope and conflict in Jewish memory, the contributors address intersections and departures among these writers. Their complexity of thought, artistry, and depth of vision shape a new understanding of the impact of the Holocaust on Jewish and French identity, on literature and literary forms, and on the development of Jewish secular culture in Western Europe.
Author: Hubert Butler
Publisher: Lilliput Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Author: Kathryn Jones
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351196138
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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"The Second World War was a common experience of cultural and historical rupture for many European countries, but studies of this period and its after-images often remain locked in national frameworks. Jones' comparative study of national memory cultures argues for a more nuanced view of responses to shared issues of remembrance. Focusing on the 1960s and 1970s, two decades of great change and debate in French and German discourses of memory, it investigates literary representations of the Second World War, and in particular the Holocaust, from France and both Germanies. The study encompasses thirteen works representing a variety of genres and divergent perspectives, and authors include Jorge Semprun, Peter Weiss, Georges Perec and Bernward Vesper. Addressing the underlying theme of travel as a means of exploring the past, it contrasts the journeys made by deportees and post-war visitors to the camps with the use of the journey as a literary device."
Author: W. E. Gutman
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 1927360978
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 495
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An epic work of remarkable scope, vigor and passion, W. E. Gutman's latest book is acerbic, iconoclastic and disquieting. In this memoir, he chronicles his life with eloquent, engaging prose that will resonate with readers long after they turn the last page. The palpable sense of wonder and discovery peppered with dark humor and great humanity, is reminiscent of Nabokov's Speak Memory and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. This honest, often self-critical account of the author's ups and downs as a wanderer and journalist makes A Paler Shade of Red great literature. About the Author Born in Paris, W. E. Gutman is a veteran journalist and author. A former writer at OMNI magazine and U.S. editor of Science in the USSR, he covered politics and human rights in Central America from 1994 to 2006. He lives with his wife in southern California.
Author: Axel Bangert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351563564
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the many points of conjunction between these categories in recent images of genocide. The book examines transnational constellations in Holocaust cinema and television in Europe, disclosing instances of border-crossing and boundary-troubling at levels of production, distribution and reception. It highlights intersections between film genres, through intertextuality and pastiche, and the deployment of audiovisual Holocaust memory and testimony. Finally, the volume addresses connections between the Holocaust and other histories of genocide in the visual culture of the new millennium, engaging with the questions of transhistoricity and intercultural perspective. Drawing on a wide variety of different media - from cinema and television to installation art and the internet - and on the most recent scholarship on responses to the Holocaust, the volume aims to update our understanding of how visual culture looks at the Holocaust and genocide today. With the contributions: Robert S. C. Gordon, Axel Bangert, Libby Saxton- Introduction Emiliano Perra- Between National and Cosmopolitan: 21st Century Holocaust Television in Britain, France and Italy Judith Keilbach- Title to be announced Laura Rascaroli- Transits: Thinking at the Junctures of Images in Harun Farocki's Respite and Arnaud des Pallieres's Drancy Avenir Maxim Silverman- Haneke and the Camps Barry Langford- Globalising the Holocaust: Fantasies of Annihilation in Contemporary Media Culture Ferzina Banaji- The Nazi Killin' Business: A Post-Modern Pastiche of the Holocaust Matilda Mroz- Neighbours: Polish-Jewish Relations in Contemporary Polish Visual Culture Berber Hagedoorn- Holocaust Representation in the Multi-Platform TV Documentaries De Oorlog (The War) and 13 in de Oorlog (13 in the War) Annette Hamilton- Cambodian Genocide: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Cinema of Rithy Panh Piotr Cieplak, Emma Wilson- The Afterlife of Images
