From Paris To Bergen Belsen

Author : Jacques Saurel
Publisher : Editions Le Manuscrit
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782304234435

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From Paris to Bergen-Belsen by Jacques Saurel Pdf

Born in 1933, Jacques Saurel might well have known the fate of so many children of Jewish parents who emigrated from Poland between the wars: Auschwitz and the gas chamber. He owed it to his father that he initially had no problems with the authorities. As a volunteer for military service and then a prisoner of war, his father protected Jacques and his family under the Geneva Convention. But the Nazis were looking for hostages to deport. Thus, in early February 1944, Jacques, his oldest sister (the younger one was in hiding) and his little brother were detained with their mother for three months in the Drancy internment camp, before being deported to the _x001A_Star Camp_x001A_, Bergen-Belsen. It

Author : Eugène Klein
Publisher : Iggybook
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9782304049763

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The Wolves by Eugène Klein Pdf

Eugène Klein led an extraordinary life, whose many facets he weaves together in this rich and unique account. Eugène grew up destitute in Hungary. He enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and served in several theaters, including the Carpathian Front, where living conditions were harsh. He found happiness in France during the interwar period. He ran footraces, and his athletic talent allowed him to settle in France and start a family there. As a Jew, Eugène and his family faced persecution by the Nazis: They were arrested in Paris on May 1, 1943 and deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in Poland. After surviving forced labor and a «death march», Eugène would be reunited with his wife, but his son would never return. This dignified account highlights the intelligence and integrity of a man who was both physically and mentally exceptional. With the maturity of age, Eugène combines sincerity with restraint to deliver an account devoid of useless moralizing. Through a series of flashbacks, he demonstrates how his survival in the Nazi camps was certainly due to luck, but also to his prior life experiences, since he had already come face-to-face with humiliation, bitter cold, hunger and mass death, inhumane conditions... and wolves.

Author : Jean-Marc Dreyfus,Sarah Gensburger
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781782381136

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Nazi Labour Camps in Paris by Jean-Marc Dreyfus,Sarah Gensburger Pdf

On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from the concentration camp at Drancy to the Lvitan furniture store building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of three satellite camps (Lvitan, Austerlitz, Bassano) in Paris. Between July 1943 and August 1944, nearly eight hundred prisoners spent a few weeks to a year in one of these buildings, previously been used to store furniture, and were subjected to forced labor. Although the history of the persecution and deportation of France's Jews is well known, the three Parisian satellite camps have been subjected to the silence of both memory and history. This lack of attention by the most authoritative voices on the subject can perhaps be explained by the absence of a collective memory or by the marginal status of the Parisian detainees - the spouses of Aryans, wives of prisoners of war, half-Jews. Still, the Parisian camps did, and continue to this day, lack simple and straightforward descriptions. This book is a much needed study of these camps and is witness to how, sixty years after the events, expressing this memory remains a complex, sometimes painful process, and speaking about it a struggle.

Author : Pothiti Hantzaroula
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429018961

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Child Survivors of the Holocaust in Greece by Pothiti Hantzaroula Pdf

A historical investigation of children’s memory of the Holocaust in Greece illustrates that age, generation and geographical background shaped postwar Jewish identities. The examination of children’s narratives deposited in the era of digital archives enables an understanding of the age-specific construction of the memory of genocide, which shakes established assumptions about the memory of the Holocaust. In the context of a global Holocaust memory established through testimony archives, the present research constructs a genealogy of the testimonial culture in Greece by framing the rich source of written and oral testimonies in the political discourses and public memory of the aftermath of the Second World War. The testimonies of former hidden children and child survivors of concentration camps illuminate the questions that haunted postwar attempts to reconstruct communities, related to the specific evolution of genocide in Greece and to the rising anti-Semitism of postwar Greece. As an oral history of child survivors of the Holocaust, the book will be of interest to researchers in the fields of the history of childhood, Jewish studies, memory studies and Holocaust and genocide studies.

Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1701 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253003508

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Volume I by Geoffrey P. Megargee Pdf

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award: “This valuable resource covers an aspect of the Holocaust rarely addressed and never in such detail.” —Library Journal This is the first volume in a monumental seven-volume encyclopedia, reflecting years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—many thousands more than previously known—that the Nazis and their allies operated, from Norway to North Africa and from France to Russia. For the first time, a single reference work will provide detailed information on each individual site. This first volume covers three groups of camps: the early camps that the Nazis established in the first year of Hitler’s rule, the major SS concentration camps with their constellations of subcamps, and the special camps for Polish and German children and adolescents. Overview essays provide context for each category, while each camp entry provides basic information about the site’s purpose; prisoners; guards; working and living conditions; and key events in the camp’s history. Material from personal testimonies helps convey the character of the site, while source citations provide a path to additional information.

Author : Jeffrey Gurock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136675218

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America, American Jews, and the Holocaust by Jeffrey Gurock Pdf

This volume incorporates studies of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the respective responses of the German-American Press and the American-Jewish Press during the emergence of Nazism, and the subsequent issues of rescue during the holocaust and policies towards the displaced.

Author : Alex Grobman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0814324134

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Rekindling the Flame by Alex Grobman Pdf

A study of American Jewish chaplains in displaced persons' camps after World War II, Rekindling the Flame provides a historical analysis of the survivors' impact on American Jewish chaplains and indirectly on American Jewry. This critical and controversial study examines not only the adequacy of the response by the U.S. government and military to the survivors, but also the American Jewish response. Grobman concludes that the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee the Jewish organization most responsible for providing aid to the survivors, did not adequately respond. Rekindling the Flame is based on several sources including chaplains' reports and other records; oral interviews with chaplains, their assistants, American soldiers, and Holocaust survivors; diaries and personal correspondence of chaplains; and archives in the United States, Israel, and Europe.

Author : Andrea Reiter,Patrick Camiller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847144225

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Narrating the Holocaust by Andrea Reiter,Patrick Camiller Pdf

In this literary study of memoirs describing at first hand the horrors of German concentration camps, the principal question asked is: How did the survivors find the words to talk about experiences hitherto unknown, even unimaginable? Beyond being a mere analysis of discourse, Narrating the Holocaust reflects the situations in camp that triggered these responses, and shows how the professional authors adapted certain literary genres (e.g. the travel story, the Hassidic tale) to serve as models for communication, while the vast majority who were not trained as writers merely used the form of the report. A comparison between these memoirs and the more frequently discussed camp novel identifies the different narrative strategies by which the two are determined. Most of the 130 texts discussed here were published in German between l934 and the present; some famous Italian, French and Polish texts have also been included for comparison.

Author : Johannes Heuman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137529336

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The Holocaust and French Historical Culture, 1945–65 by Johannes Heuman Pdf

Paris was home to one of the key European initiatives to document and commemorate the Holocaust, the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine . By analysing the earliest Holocaust narratives and their reception in France, this study provides a new understanding of the institutional development of Holocaust remembrance in France after the War.

Author : Stephen Harding
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306922145

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Escape from Paris by Stephen Harding Pdf

This thrilling wartime adventure tells the true story of the downed American aviators who were rescued by French resistance fighters, taken to Nazi-occupied Paris, and hidden under the very noses of the Gestapo. Escape from Paris is the true story of a small group of U.S. aviators whose four B-17 Flying Fortresses were shot down over German-occupied France on a single, fateful day: July 14, 1943, Bastille Day. They were rescued by brave French civilians and taken to Paris for eventual escape out of France. In the French capital, where German troops walked on every street and Gestapo agents hid around every corner, the flyers met a brave Parisian resistance family living and working in the Hôtel des Invalides, a complex of buildings and military memorials, where Nazi officials had set up offices. Hidden in the complex the Americans, along with dozens of other downed Allied pilots and resistance operatives, hatched daring escape plots. The danger of discovery by the Nazis grew every day, as did an unlikely romance when one of the American airmen begins a star-crossed wartime romance with the twenty-two-year old daughter of the family sheltering him—a noir tale of war, courage and desperation in the shadows of the City of Light. Based on official American, French, and German documents, histories, personal memoirs, and the author's interviews with several of the story's key participants, Escape from Paris crosses the traditional lines of World War II history with tense drama of air combat over Europe, the intrigue of occupied Paris, and courageous American and Allied pilots and French resistance fighters pitted against Nazi thugs. All of this set in one of the world's most beautiful and captivating cities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Bergen-Belsen (Germany : Concentration camp)
ISBN : IND:39000001461594

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From Bergen Belsen to Freedom by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tina Frühauf,Lily E. Hirsch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199367481

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Dislocated Memories by Tina Frühauf,Lily E. Hirsch Pdf

This title draws together three significant areas of inquiry: Jewish music, German culture, and the legacy of the Holocaust. Jewish music - a highly debated topic - encompasses a multiplicity of musics and cultures, reflecting an inherent and evolving hybridity and transnationalism. German culture refers to an equally diverse concept that, in this volume, includes the various cultures of prewar Germany, occupied Germany, the divided and reunified Germany, and even 'German (Jewish) memory,' which is not necessarily physically bound to Germany.

Author : Mark Celinscak
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442615700

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Distance from the Belsen Heap by Mark Celinscak Pdf

Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains.

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781772603767

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Two Pieces of Chocolate by Kathy Kacer Pdf

In 1945, young Francine and her maman are sent to the Bergen-Belsen Nazi prison camp, where life is gray and hopeless. Determined to lift Francine’s spirits, Maman shares a secret: hidden inside her bag are two pieces of chocolate. They’re the first sweets Francine has seen in years, but Maman tells her not to eat them. “One day, when I see that you really need them...that’s when I’ll give the chocolates to you.” When Francine meets Hélène, a fellow prisoner, she learns another secret: Hélène is pregnant. But there is very little food in the camp, and even less hope. Hélène and her baby are in grave danger. Remembering the chocolates, Francine realizes she may be able to help. Francine’s act of kindness will make ripples in their lives for decades to come. Inspired by a remarkable true story.

Author : Irene Shapiro
Publisher : DeForest Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 1930374062

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Revisiting the Shadows by Irene Shapiro Pdf