Hitler's Ghettos - Voices from a Beleaguered Society 1939-1944

Hundreds of ghettos were created throughout eastern Europe by the Germans and their allies during the Second World War. There have been some studies of the largest ghettos - Warsaw and L0dz - and a few accounts of some of the smaller ones; but very little examination of the ghettos a a whole. This pioneering new history draws heavily on the testimonies of those who suffered in them, making use of a wide range of diaries and memoirs (and exploring the problems inherent in such sources). Other documentary sources - particularly German - are also used, but the intention is to look at the ghettos ""from below,"" focusing on behavior, values, and suffering, as well as on the heroism and the passiveness of the Jewish communities. Never before has personal testimony been so extensively used and systematically evaluated to write a history of the East European ghettos.>

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• Authors: Gustavo Corni, Gustavo (University of Trento) Corni, Corni Gustavo, Nicola Rudge Iannelli
• Assisted by: Nicola Rudge Iannelli (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2003
• EAN: 9780340762462
• ISBN: 978-0-340-76246-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Arnold Publication; Arnold Publication
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Social groups, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / Eastern Front, Social groups, communities and identities