Nazi Persecution and Postwar Repercussions - The International Tracing Service Archive and Holocaust Research

Drawing on a selection of recently available documents from the International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world, this compelling volume provides new insights into human decision-making in genocidal settings, the factors that drive it, and its far-reaching consequences.

List of contents

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Chapter One: The International Tracing Service Holdings
Chapter Two: 'Our Mothers, Our Fathers:' Lahnstein
Chapter Three: Jewish Voices
Chapter Four: Hour Zero: The Year 1945
Chapter Five: Imagining the Refugee

Appendix I: The International Tracing Service Holdings by Subunit
Appendix II: Finding Aids for the International Tracing Service Holdings
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Suzanne Brown-Fleming is director of the Visiting Scholar Programs of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Brown-Fleming Suzanne
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781442251731
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5173-1
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context; Documenting Life and Destruction: Holocaust Sources in Context; Documenting Life and Destructi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Europe, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, HISTORY / Reference, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Reference works, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), 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, Holocaust;ITS;Jewish Studies