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Informationen zum Autor Leah Wolfson is senior program officer and applied research scholar, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Klappentext Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumWith its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative, Jewish Responses to Persecution: 1944-1946, provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the final year of Nazi destruction and the immediate postwar years, it traces the increasingly urgent Jewish struggle for survival, which included armed resistance and organized escape attempts. Shedding light on the personal and public lives of Jews, this book provides compelling insights into a wide range of Jewish experiences during the Holocaust. Jewish individuals and communities suffered through this devastating period and reflected on the Holocaust differently, depending on their nationality, personal and communal histories and traditions, political beliefs, economic situations, and other life history. The rich spectrum of primary source material collected, including letters, diary entries, photographs, transcripts of speeches and radio addresses, newspaper articles, drawings, and official government and institutional memos and reports, makes this volume an essential research tool and curriculum companion. Zusammenfassung With its unique combination of primary sources and historical narrative! this volume provides an important new perspective on Holocaust history. Covering the peak years of the Nazi "Final Solution!" it traces the Jewish struggle for survival! which became increasingly urgent! including armed resistance and organized escape attempts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Maps Readers' GuideAbbreviations Introduction and Series PostscriptPART I: THE "FINAL SOLUTION" AND THE END OF THE WAR Chapter One: The End of the War and the Last Throes of Genocide Resistance, Rescue, and Escape The Last Deportations, 1944-1945 The Final Days of the Concentration Camp System Moving Jews: Death Marches and the End of the War Chapter Two: Experiencing "Liberation" American Jewish Soldiers Encounter the Holocaust Responding to the Liberators: Liberation from the Perspective Chapter Three: Adjusting to Peace, Surviving Survival Emerging from the Holocaust: Finding a "Home" in Postwar Europe Surviving as Children, Reclaiming Childhood: Jewish Children after the War PART II: JEWS ON THE MOVE: FINDING AND DEFINING "HOME" IN THE POSTWAR ERA Chapter Four: Returning "Home": Emigration and the Search for Postwar Normalcy Refugees and the Postwar Landscape: Borders, Citizenship, and Nationality Creating Homeland: Aspirations for Palestine The Other "Promised Land": Refugees and Survivors in the United States A Home Elsewhere: Emigration outside Palestine and the United States Chapter Five: Jews and Displaced Persons Camps in Postwar Europe Jewish Involvement in DP Camp Administration The Daily Lives of Jewish DPs: Interpreting the Holocaust from the Inside Chapter Six: Citizenship, Nationhood, and Homeland: Jewish and Non-Jewish Encounters and the Zionist Ideal Imagining "Home:" Jewish Displaced Persons and Differing Visions of Zionism Between Tolerance and Antisemitism: Making a Home in the Diaspora PART III: TAKING STOCK, SEARCHING FOR JUSTICE Chapter Seven: The Search for Relatives Creating Lists of the Living and Lists of the Dead "Only Sad News to Report": Survivor Letters to Family Outside Europe Searching for Jewish Children in the Postwar Period: The Organizational Process Picking Up and Moving On: Grappling with Decimated Families Chapter Eight: Punishing the Perpetrators Official Justice: Allied War Crimes Trials Coverage of Postwar Trials in the Jewish Press In Pursuit of Justice: Statements of the Victims Justice on the Local Level: Claims and Accusations Chapter Nine: Reclaiming ...
