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Postkartengroße Edelstahltäfelchen fallen aufmerksamen Passantinnen und Passanten russischer Groß- und Kleinstädte seit 2014 ins Auge. Gewidmet sind die Erinnerungszeichen an den Hausfassaden jenen Menschen, die im Zuge der sowjetischen Repressionen aus ihren Wohnungen verschleppt wurden. Ihre Namen bringt das partizipative Gedenkprojekt Poslednij Adres (dt. Letzte Adresse) mit den Tafeln zurück zu den vormaligen Wohnadressen. Dieses Buch verortet Poslednij Adres als neue und innovative Form des zivilgesellschaftlichen Gedenkens innerhalb der russischen Erinnerungslandschaft und geht dabei von verschiedenen Perspektiven aus der Frage nach, welche Bedeutung dem Projekt für das Erinnern an den staatlichen Terror der Sowjetunion in Russland beigemessen werden kann.

'One of the best books I have read' Reviewer *****'A compelling story of bravery, love and survival' Reviewer *****'The twists and turns will keep you engrossed all the way through' Reviewer *****'Powerful and truly moving' Reviewer *****-----THE NEXT WORDS HE WRITES COULD BE HIS LAST . . . Austria, 1938: The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Café Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time.But when the Nazis take over, everything changes. With their Jewish families' now under threat, the writers hide using false identities, their stories becoming their only salvation.Then a local policeman begins a dangerous mission to help them. But he faces conflicts of his own: having declared his love for a beautiful Romani-gypsy girl, Deya Reynes, he fears that she too will be sent to her death.When all they have left is courage, will they survive?-----'Darkly compelling, evoking the constant dread of life in wartime Austria' Fiona Valpy, The Dressmaker's Gift'Enticing, terrifying and heart-breaking' Mandy Robotham, The Resistance Girl'A gripping, intriguing and moving read' Anna Stuart, The Midwife of Auschwitz

'A fine and deeply affecting work of history and memoir' Philippe SandsDecades ago, the historian Bernard Wasserstein set out to uncover the hidden past of the town forty miles west of Lviv where his family originated: Krakowiec (Krah-KOV-yets). In this book he recounts its dramatic and traumatic history. 'I want to observe and understand how some of the great forces that determined the shape of our times affected ordinary people.' The result is an exceptional, often moving book.Wasserstein traces the arc of history across centuries of religious and political conflict, as armies of Cossacks, Turks, Swedes and Muscovites rampaged through the region. In the Age of Enlightenment, the Polish magnate Ignacy Cetner built his palace at Krakowiec and, with his vivacious daughter, Princess Anna, created an arcadia of refinement and serenity. Under the Habsburg emperors after 1772, Krakowiec developed into a typical shtetl, with a jostling population of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews.In 1914, disaster struck. 'Seven years of terror and carnage' left a legacy of ferocious national antagonisms. During the Second World War the Jews were murdered in circumstances harrowingly described by Wasserstein. After the war the Poles were expelled and the town dwindled into a border outpost. Today, the storm of history once again rains down on Krakowiec as refugees flee for their lives from Ukraine to Poland.At the beginning and end of the book we encounter Wasserstein's own family, especially his grandfather Berl. In their lives and the many others Wasserstein has rediscovered, the people of Krakowiec become a prism through which we can feel the shocking immediacy of history. Original in conception and brilliantly achieved, A Small Town in Ukraine is a masterpiece of recovery and insight.

"Nadie sale vivo de Auschwitz. Mala, reclusa 19880, lo entendiâo en el momento en que bajâo del tren de ganado para dirigirse a las profundidades del infierno. Como intâerprete de las SS, Mala usâo su posiciâon para salvar tantas vidas como pudo. Edward, recluso 531, es un veterano del campo y un preso polâitico. Aunque, con la cabeza rapada y el uniforme a rayas, se parezca a todos lo demâas, es un luchador de la Resistencia en la clandestinidad. Y tiene un plan de escape. Sabe que, a pesar de estar rodeado por cables elâectricos, ametralladoras coronando interminables torres de vigilancia y reflectores vagando por el suelo, dejarâan, tanto âel como Mala, el campo de exterminio. Hay la promesa de escapar juntos o morir juntos, en una de las mâas grandes historias de amor de todos los tiempos."--From back cover.

By October 1942 the Hlinka Guard had overseen the deportation of some 60,000 Slovak Jews. During the 1944-1945 German occupation, another 13,500 Jews were deported and 5,000 imprisoned. Many of the Jews ended up at the Auschwitz Birkenau Concentration and Extermination Camp. Not much is known about the Hlinka Guard. This book tells their story.

Features a new section on the institutional settings of German Jewish Studies, a Film Forum on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla, and interviews with Paul Mendes-Flohr and Barbara Honigmann, among other contributions.Nexus is the official publication of the biennial German Jewish Studies Workshop at the University of Notre Dame. Together, Nexus and the Workshop constitute the first ongoing German Jewish Studies forum in North America. Because the locus of scholarship is never incidental, Nexus 6 introduces a new section, "Contexts," to examine, in this case, what it means to pursue German Jewish Studies at a Catholic university, Notre Dame. And because research is never static, it inaugurates a series in which scholars revisit their own prior scholarly publications. Robert Smith launches this initiative by revising his view of Dietrich Bonhoeffer as a source for post-Holocaust Christian-Jewish dialogue. The volume also offers conversations with the legendary Paul Mendes-Flohr on his understanding of the German Jewish "legacy" and with Barbara Honigmann on her distinctive prose style and what it means to her to practice Judaism. The popular Film Forum section returns, this time focusing on Shahar Rozen's 1998 documentary Liebe Perla. Nexus 6 also presents new scholarship on Babi Yar Holocaust memorials, Freud's famous Moses essay, Primo Levi's translation of Kafka, and an introduction to and first English translation of the 18th-century philosopher Salomon Maimon's understudied essay History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues.

"This book highlights important new social scientific research on the Holocaust and initiates the integration of the Holocaust into mainstream social scientific research in a way that will be useful both for social scientists and historians"--

Die Studie untersucht die diskursiven Kämpfe um die Anerkennung des NS-Völkermords an Sinti und Roma in der Bundesrepublik bis 1990. Dabei wird unter Anerkennung zweierlei verstanden: die Akzeptanz der Verbände der Sinti und Roma als legitime Gesprächspartner der Bundesregierung sowie die Bewertung der "NS-Zigeunerverfolgung¿ als "rassisch¿ motiviertes Verbrechen in Politik und Wissenschaft. Auf der Grundlage umfassenden Quellenmaterials von Bundesbehörden und politischen wie zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren entsteht eine Diskursgeschichte dieses langwierigen Anerkennungsprozesses. Sie zeigt, dass bis tief in die 1960er Jahre hinein ein durch und durch rassistisches Bild der nationalsozialistischen Politik gegen Sinti und Roma vorherrschte. Dieser Denkstil, der von traditionellen Vorurteilen über "Zigeunerkriminalität¿ geprägt war, geriet in den 1970er Jahren mit der Rezeption von internationalen Forschungsarbeiten immer stärker unter Druck. Doch erst in den 1980er Jahren begann mit der Anerkennung der Sinti und Roma als Gesprächspartner durch Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt auch die Erforschung des NS-Massenverbrechens.

Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust presents interdisciplinary postmemorial endeavours of second, third and fourth generation Holocaust survivors living in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora.

Psychoanalytic and Cultural Aspects of Trauma and the Holocaust presents interdisciplinary postmemorial endeavours of second, third and fourth generation Holocaust survivors living in Israel and in the Jewish diaspora.

Dachau is a book written by the son of a member of the US Armed Forces that liberated the Dachau Concentration Camp in April, 1945. The camp ran from 1933 to 1945 and was the first Nazi concentration camp. The book traces the history of the camp from its beginnings as a detainment center for political prisoners all the way to its final iteration as a slave labor camp in which many types of prisoners were held. The story of its roots goes back to the early days of Hitler's political ambitions and his objectives for seeking power, even to the point of world domination. He was a tyrant who implemented severe racist policies and who embarked on a world war that caused great destruction across Europe. The concentration camps were a systematic strategy Hitler used to abuse and subjugate people he believed to be in the way of his world conquest and Dachau was a part of that system.The book describes in vivid detail the prison life of the detainees including the abuses they were subjected to, the hard labor they were forced to perform, their stark living conditions and the punishments they received. It also includes insights into the mentality of the inhumane SS guards who ran the facility. These troops were highly loyal to Hitler, very faithful to their training and regimentation, and cruel with every action they took. Dachau was the training center for all guards in all of the concentration camps.When US forces were finally able to liberate the camp in 1945, they faced the immense task of providing aid to over 30,000 people who spoke many different languages and who were mostly all either injured or ill. The book describes the amount of organization and help needed to assist the former prisoners in order for them to eventually go back to live in freedom and return to their countries of origin or to a country that would take them in.Finally, the book presents the current memorialization of the former camp. It has become a heavily visited site and it bears the purpose of educating visitors about its history. Also, it stands for the respect the spiritually and the reflection that goes with contemplating the amount of death and cruelty that occurred there and must be avoided by mankind going forward.It is a hope this book will present a very strong case against the evils of racism. It is also a hope that it presents the Nazi philosophy as one that cannot succeed and that should not be emulated in any respect in our modern era. The people that were persecuted by the Nazi system and the soldiers that gave their lives and their service to stop it are the heroes of this book.

What do Germans mean when they say "never again"? Andrew Port examines German responses to the genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, and Rwanda, showing how these events transformed the meaning of the Holocaust in Germany, inspired partial remilitarization, and changed the country's relationship to refugees fleeing war-torn regions.

After WWII, Ilse Koch became known worldwide as the "Bitch of Buchenwald." She was assuredly guilty of atrocities, but the most sensational crimes ascribed to her by prosecutors and newspapers went unproven. Tomaz Jardim reveals how Koch's perceived betrayal of womanhood sealed her fate as a scapegoat for a society seeking absolution.

The harrowing, moving and poignant account of one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz: a girl who was only 6 years old when sent to the extermination camp.