Liberation Reconsidered
New Approaches to the End of the Holocaust in Europe
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Beschreibung
Liberation as a process shaped by Holocaust survivors` distinct historical and geographic circumstances.
The liberation of the camps at the end of World War II has often been portrayed as a singular rapturous juncture. The authors in this volume collectively underscore the necessity of reconceptualizing liberation in a manner that transcends triumphalist narratives, foregrounding instead the inherent complexity, variability, and frequently tragic limitations confronted by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the »aftermath« of genocide. They demonstrate how local conditions, political structures, and social relationships shaped survivors` experiences of the war`s end and their attempts to rebuild their lives.
Includes:
Monika Flaschka: That`s what women are for, just to rape them: Soviet Rape of Holocaust Survivors
Katerina Králová: The Fluidity of Liberation: Jewish Survivors in Postwar Greece
Johannes Meerwald: There is no feeling of newfound freedom – Jewish Prisoners in Southern Bavaria at Liberation
Der Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache.
Autor*in
Elizabeth Anthony
Elizabeth Anthony, born 1971, is a historian and the director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her book, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust, was a commended finalist for the Ernst Fraenkel Prize.
Themen in »Liberation Reconsidered«
1945 concentration camp KZ Survivor Überlebende Juden World War II Shoah Holocaust Nationalsozialismus 2.Weltkrieg Narrativ Erinnerung Gedächtnis Gesellschaft