Voices on War and Genocide - Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov's acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Note on Language, Place, and Personal Names

Introduction

Omer Bartov

The Accounts

Antoni Siewinski

Viktor Petrykevych

Mosze Wizinger

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.

Product details

• Authors: Omer Bartov
• Assisted by: Omer Bartov (Editor), Bartov Omer (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9781789207187
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-718-7
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: War and Genocide
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Eastern Europe, Diaries, letters & journals, 20th Century, HISTORY / Jewish, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, The Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, Published diaries, letters and journals