Facing the Catastrophe - Jews and Non-Jews in Europe during World War II

Informationen zum Autor Beate Kosmala is Senior Researcher at The German Resistance Memorial Center! Berlin. Georgi Verbeeck is Professor of German History at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and Senior Lecturer at Maastricht University (the Netherlands). Zusammenfassung Through a series of regional case studies, this book presents the Holocaust not as a single monolithic or one-dimensional event, but as a complex process with many human actors and local contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Beate Kosmala and Georgi Verbeeck 1: Jews and Non-Jews in the Aryanisation Process: Comparison of France and the Slovak State, 1939 - 1945 Jean-Marc Dreyfus, Ivan Kamenec and Eduard Nižòanský 2: Pograms and Massacres during the Summer of 1941 in the Lomya and Bialystock District: The Case of Radzilów Andrzej ¯bikowski 3: Holocaust in the Lithuanian Province: Case Studies of Jurbankas and Utea Christoph Dieckmann 4: Facing Deportation in Germany and the Netherlands: Survival in Hiding Marnix Croes and Beate Kosmala 5: Jews and their Social Environment: Perspectives from the Underground Press in Poland and France Daniel Blatman and Renée Poznanski 6: Cultural Memory and Legal Responses: Holocaust Denial in Belgium and Romania Mariana Hausleitner and Georgi Verbeeck

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• Authors: Daniel Blatmann, Daniel Verbeeck Blatmann, Beate Kosmala, Georgi Verbeeck
• Assisted by: Beate Kosmala (Editor), Kosmala Beate (Editor), Georgi Verbeeck (Editor), Verbeeck Georgi (Editor)
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2011
• EAN: 9781845204716
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-471-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Occupation in Europe; Occupation in Europe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Jewish, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater