Author: Roman Grunszpan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780533027996
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Author: David M. Szonyi
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881250572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Category : Holocaust Remembrance Day
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Author: Miron Bialoszewski
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590176650
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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On August 1, 1944, Miron Białoszewski, later to gain renown as one of Poland’s most innovative poets, went out to run an errand for his mother and ran into history. With Soviet forces on the outskirts of Warsaw, the Polish capital revolted against five years of Nazi occupation, an uprising that began in a spirit of heroic optimism. Sixty-three days later it came to a tragic end. The Nazis suppressed the insurgents ruthlessly, reducing Warsaw to rubble while slaughtering some 200,000 people, mostly through mass executions. The Red Army simply looked on. Białoszewski’s blow-by-blow account of the uprising brings it alive in all its desperate urgency. Here we are in the shoes of a young man slipping back and forth under German fire, dodging sniper bullets, collapsing with exhaustion, rescuing the wounded, burying the dead. An indispensable and unforgettable act of witness, A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising is also a major work of literature. Białoszewski writes in short, stabbing, splintered, breathless sentences attuned to “the glaring identity of ‘now.’” His pages are full of a white-knuckled poetry that resists the very destruction it records. Madeline G. Levine has extensively revised her 1977 translation, and passages that were unpublishable in Communist Poland have been restored.

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Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Author: Israel Gutman
Publisher:
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Category : Antisemitism
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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A twenty-one volume encyclopedia with 32,000 entries and more than 16,000 illustrations.

Author: Maciej Chilczuk
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Zuzanna Bogumił
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1782382186
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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Eastern European museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad, the Warsaw Uprisings, and the Bombardment of Dresden, in ways that depict the enemy in particular ways. This image results from the interweaving of historical representations, cultural stereotypes and beliefs, political discourses, and the dynamics of exhibition narratives. This book presents a useful methodology for examining museum images and provides a critical analysis of the role historical museums play in the contemporary world. As the catastrophes of World War II still exert an enormous influence on the national identities of Russians, Poles, and Germans, museum exhibits can thus play an important role in this process.

Author: Daniel Blatman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674059190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns and villages. Even in the bloody annals of the Nazi regime, this final death blow was unique in character and scope. In this first comprehensive attempt to answer the questions raised by this final murderous rampage, the author draws on the testimonies of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Hunting through archives throughout the world, Daniel Blatman sets out to explain—to the extent that is possible—the effort invested by mankind’s most lethal regime in liquidating the remnants of the enemies of the “Aryan race” before it abandoned the stage of history. What were the characteristics of this last Nazi genocide? How was it linked to the earlier stages, the slaughter of millions in concentration camps? How did the prevailing chaos help to create the conditions that made the final murderous rampage possible? In its exploration of a topic nearly neglected in the current history of the Shoah, this book offers unusual insight into the workings, and the unraveling, of the Nazi regime. It combines micro-historical accounts of representative massacres with an overall analysis of the collapse of the Third Reich, helping us to understand a seemingly inexplicable chapter in history.