Ghost Citizens - Jewish Return to a Postwar City

Few Polish Holocaust survivors went home after liberation. Lukasz Krzyzanowski recounts the story of a group who did¿the returnees of Radom. Bureaucrats tried to hold back their property and possessions to prop up the ruined state. And the returnees faced pogroms and even gangs of fellow Jews. Against it all, they struggled to rebuild their lives.

About the author

Lukasz Krzyzanowski is Assistant Professor of History and Claims Conference University Partnership Holocaust Lecturer, University of Warsaw. He is also Adjunct Professor of History, University of Ottawa.

Summary

Few Polish Holocaust survivors went home after liberation. Lukasz Krzyzanowski recounts the story of a group who did—the returnees of Radom. Bureaucrats tried to hold back their property and possessions to prop up the ruined state. And the returnees faced pogroms and even gangs of fellow Jews. Against it all, they struggled to rebuild their lives.

Product details

• Authors: Lukasz Krzyzanowski, Professor Lukasz Krzyzanowski, Madeline G. Levine
• Assisted by: Madeline G Levine (Translation), Madeline G. Levine (Translation), Levine Madeline G. (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9780674984660
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98466-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Europe, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, The Holocaust, Jewish, General and world history, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust