Archaeology of the Holocaust - Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape Tunnels

List of contents

Chapter 1-Devastation and Hope through Archaeology
Chapter 2-Other Jerusalems: Holy Cities around the World
Chapter 3-The Jerusalem of Lithuania: Vilna
Chapter 4-April 15, 1944: The Greatest Escape of the Holocaust
Chapter 5-Searching for Jacob Gens
Chapter 6-The Rediscovery of Jewish Vilna
Chapter 7-The On-Going Legacy of the "Other" Jerusalems

About the author

Dr. Richard A. Freund is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Jewish History and Director of the Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford. His most recent work in Lithuania has been chronicled in a recent NOVA science series episode: "Holocaust Escape Tunnel" on the new discoveries made in the Holocaust era Ponar Burial Pits and at the Great Synagogue of Vilna, Lithuania. He is the author of hundreds of scholarly articles and several books (written or co-edited) including Digging through the Bible and Digging through History.

Product details

• Authors: Richard A Freund, Richard A. Freund, Freund Richard A.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2019
• EAN: 9781538102664
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-0266-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; History, European History, RELIGION / Judaism / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Baltic States, The Holocaust, Archaeology, Judaism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust