Voices From The Holocaust

Author : Harry James Cargas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813144153

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Voices From the Holocaust by Harry James Cargas Pdf

" Interviews with: Yitzhak Arad Leo Eitinger Emil Fackenheim Whitney Harris Jan Karski Arnost Lusting Mordecai Paldiel Marion Pritchard Dorothee Soelle Leon Wells Elie Wiesel Simon Wiesenthal The late Harry James Cargas was professor emeritus of literature and language at Webster University and author of thirty-two books, including Problems Unique to the Holocaust.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780330822

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Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis Pdf

The testament to a tragedy. Voices from The Holocaust follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were there, and were witnesses - on both sides - of the horror. While some of the eye-witnesses are well-known, such as Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Heinrich Himmler, the book includes recollections of camp inmates, SS Totenkopf guards and the British soldiers who liberated Belsen. Shocking, powerful and personal, Voices from the Holocaust retells history, written by those who were there.

Author : Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : 9780684865256

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Witness by Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Pdf

In this companion book to the PBS documentary scheduled to air in May, the realities of the Holocaust emerge through the remarkable accounts of 27 eyewitnesses. Photos.

Author : Lyn Smith
Publisher : Random House
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409003595

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Forgotten Voices of The Holocaust by Lyn Smith Pdf

Following the success of Forgotten Voices of the Great War, Lyn Smith visits the oral accounts preserved in the Imperial War Museum Sound Archive, to reveal the sheer complexity and horror of one of human history's darkest hours. The great majority of Holocaust survivors suffered considerable physical and psychological wounds, yet even in this dark time of human history, tales of faith, love and courage can be found. As well as revealing the story of the Holocaust as directly experienced by victims, these testimonies also illustrate how, even enduring the most harsh conditions, degrading treatment and suffering massive family losses, hope, the will to survive, and the human spirit still shine through.

Author : Sylvia Rothchild
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39076002858087

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Voices from the Holocaust by Sylvia Rothchild Pdf

Author : Terry Ofner,Michael McGhee,Cecelia Munzenmaier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Holocaust survivors' writings
ISBN : 0789183757

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Voices of the Holocaust by Terry Ofner,Michael McGhee,Cecelia Munzenmaier Pdf

Contains short stories, poems, biographical accounts, and essays about the Holocaust intended to help readers answer the question: Could a holocaust happen here?

Author : Ruth Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1484409752

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Terezin by Ruth Thomson Pdf

Through inmates' own voices from secret diary entries and artwork to excerpts from memoirs and recordings narrated after the war, "Terezin" explores the lives of Jewish people in one of the most infamous of the Nazi transit camps in Czechoslovakia.

Author : Rita Benn,Julie Goldstein Ellis,Ruth Finkel Wade,Joy Wolfe Ensor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781947951518

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The Ones Who Remember by Rita Benn,Julie Goldstein Ellis,Ruth Finkel Wade,Joy Wolfe Ensor Pdf

How do you talk about and make sense of your life when you grew up with parents who survived the most unimaginable horrors of family separation, systematic murder and unending encounters of inhumanity? Sixteen authors reveal the challenges and gifts of living with the aftermath of their parents’ inconceivable experiences during the Holocaust. The Ones Who Remember: Second-Generation Voices of the Holocaust provides a window into the lived experience of sixteen different families grappling with the legacy of genocide. Each author reveals the many ways their parents’ Holocaust traumas and survival seeped into their souls and then affected their subsequent family lives – whether they knew the bulk of their parents’ stories or nothing at all. Several of the contributors’ children share interpretations of the continuing effects of this legacy with their own poems and creative prose. Despite the diversity of each family's history and journey of discovery, the intimacy of the collective narratives reveals a common arc from suffering to resilience, across the three generations. This book offers a vision of a shared humanity against the background of inherited trauma that is relatable to anyone who grew up in the shadow of their parents’ pain.

Author : James Deem
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766033228

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Auschwitz by James Deem Pdf

"Examines Auschwitz, a death camp during the Holocaust, including its construction and daily workings, true accounts from prisoners of the camp and Nazi perpetrators, and how more than 1 million people were murdered there"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Joshua M. Greene,Shiva Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0732910269

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Witness by Joshua M. Greene,Shiva Kumar Pdf

First published in the USA. Presents first-person accounts by 27 people of their experiences during the Holocaust. Jews, Gentiles, Americans, a member of the Hitler Youth, a Jesuit priest, resistance fighters and child survivors tell of life under the Nazis in ghettos, concentration camps and death camps and describe their emotions and actions following liberation. Includes references and an index.

Author : Alan L. Berger,Naomi Berger
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815606818

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Second Generation Voices by Alan L. Berger,Naomi Berger Pdf

Heirs to the legacy of Auschwjtz, the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors and perpetrators have always been thought of as separated by fear and anger, mistrust and shame. This groundbreaking study provides a forum for expression in which each group reflects candidly upon the consuming burdens and challenges it has inherited. In these intensely personal and frequently dramatic pieces, understandable differences surface. The Jewish second generation is unified by a search for memory and family. Their German counterparts experience the opposite. Yet surprising common ground is revealed. Each group emerges out of households where, for vastly different reasons, the Holocaust was not mentioned. Each struggles to break this barrier of silence. Each has witnessed the continued survival of parents and must grapple with living in households haunted by denial. And each knows it is his or her charge to shape the Holocaust for future generations. To be sure, there is disagreement among the groups about the need for-or wisdom of-dialogue. Yet Second Generation Voices boldly engenders authentic grounds for discussion. Issues such as guilt, anger, religious faith, and accountability are explored in deeply felt poems, essays, and narratives. Jew and German alike speak openly of forming and affirming their own identities, reconnecting with roots, and working through their own "psychological Holocaust."

Author : Myrna Goldenberg,Amy Shapiro
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295804576

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Different Horrors, Same Hell by Myrna Goldenberg,Amy Shapiro Pdf

Different Horrors, Same Hell brings together a variety of essays demonstrating the breadth of contributions that feminist theory and gender analysis make to the study of the Holocaust. The collection provides new perspectives on central works of Holocaust scholarship and representation, from the books of Hannah Arendt and Ruth Kl�ger to films such as Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List. Interviews with survivors and their descendants draw new attention to the significance of women's roles and family structures during and in the aftermath of the Holocaust, and interviews and archival research reveal the undercurrents of sexual violence within the Final Solution. As Doris Bergen shows in the book's first chapter, the focus on women's and gender issues in this collection "complicates familiar and outworn categories, and humanizes the past in powerful ways."

Author : Alan Rosen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0199780765

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The Wonder of Their Voices by Alan Rosen Pdf

Over the last several decades, video testimony with aging Holocaust survivors has brought these witnesses into the limelight. Yet the success of these projects has made it seem that little survivor testimony took place in earlier years. In truth, thousands of survivors began to recount their experience at the earliest opportunity. This book provides the first full-length case study of early postwar Holocaust testimony, focusing on David Boder's 1946 displaced persons interview project. In July 1946, Boder, a psychologist, traveled to Europe to interview victims of the Holocaust who were in the Displaced Persons (DP) camps and what he called "shelter houses." During his nine weeks in Europe, Boder carried out approximately 130 interviews in nine languages and recorded them on a wire recorder. Likely the earliest audio recorded testimony of Holocaust survivors, the interviews are valuable today for the spoken word (that of the DP narrators and of Boder himself) and also for the song sessions and religious services that Boder recorded. Eighty sessions were eventually transcribed into English, most of which were included in a self-published manuscript. Alan Rosen sets Boder's project in the context of the postwar response to displaced persons, sketches the dramatic background of his previous life and work, chronicles in detail the evolving process of interviewing both Jewish and non-Jewish DPs, and examines from several angles the implications for the history of Holocaust testimony. Such early postwar testimony, Rosen avers, deserves to be taken on its own terms rather than to be enfolded into earlier or later schemas of testimony. Moreover, Boder's efforts and the support he was given for them demonstrate that American postwar response to the Holocaust was not universally indifferent but rather often engaged, concerned, and resourceful.

Author : Eve Nussbaum Soumerai,Carol D. Schulz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313017148

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A Voice from the Holocaust by Eve Nussbaum Soumerai,Carol D. Schulz Pdf

Eve Soumerai recounts her childhood as a Jewish girl growing up in Nazi Berlin, as a teenaged refugee in the United Kingdom, and later as a young adult searching for answers in postwar Germany. This first-person memoir helps students understand the Holocaust and its effects by chronicling the life of an individual who lived through it. Eve's story engages readers as she retells chapters of her life, including memories of a birthday party, Crystal Night, life in England, and losing family and friends. The historical context of the Holocaust and the author's life unifies and clarifies events. This is the first book in the new Voices of Twentieth Century Conflict series for middle and high school students. A series foreword, timeline, glossary, and questions for discussion and reflection pertaining to each chapter are included. Primary documents and original photographs help students to experience being in someone else's shoes, making this book the perfect teaching tool for helping students understand important aspects of the Holocaust.

Author : David G. Roskies
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245356

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Voices from the Warsaw Ghetto by David G. Roskies Pdf

The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves. Gathered clandestinely by an underground ghetto collective called Oyneg Shabes, the collection of reportage, diaries, prose, artwork, poems, jokes, and sermons captures the heroism, tragedy, humor, and social dynamics of the ghetto. Miraculously surviving the devastation of war, this extraordinary archive encompasses a vast range of voices—young and old, men and women, the pious and the secular, optimists and pessimists—and chronicles different perspectives on the topics of the day while also preserving rapidly endangered cultural traditions. Described by David G. Roskies as “a civilization responding to its own destruction,” these texts tell the story of the Warsaw Ghetto in real time, against time, and for all time.