Golden Harvest - Events At the Periphery of the Holocaust

Zusatztext Jan and Irena Gross guide us expertly through the "Heart of Darkness" that was wartime Poland. Using a single, deeply disturbing photograph, this book captures brilliantly the whole terrifying rapaciousness of Polish Informationen zum Autor Jan Tomasz Gross is Norman B. Tomlinson Professor of War and Society and Professor of History at Princeton University. He is the author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, which was a finalist for the National Book Award.Irena Grudzinska Gross is Research Scholar and Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. Klappentext Beginning with one photograph, this moving book evokes the depth and range, as well as the intimacy, of Hitler's final solution in World War Two. Zusammenfassung Beginning with one photograph, this moving book evokes the depth and range, as well as the intimacy, of Hitler's final solution in World War Two. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Photograph The Need to Name Taking over Jewish Property Photographs and Documentation of the Shoah The Grounds of Extermination Camps Immediately after the War The Bones The Death Camps and the Local Population Tending One's Garden Takeover of Jewish property by ordinary people About the killing of Jews The Kielce region "Thick description " Close-up of a murder scene Human agency The peripheries of the Holocaust Back to photography Conversations about Jewish property A certain kind of patriotism Hunting for Jews Jews and objects Schmaltzowanye Sheltering Jews for payment An exceptional case New rules and experts' opinions Where was the Catholic Church? Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frère Afterword Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Irena Grudzinska Gross, Jan T. Gross, Jan Tomasz Gross, Jan Tomasz Gross Gross, Gross Irena Grudzinska, Gross Jan Tomasz
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.12.2016
• EAN: 9780190614539
• ISBN: 978-0-19-061453-9
• Seiten: 152
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945); Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater