Khurbn-Forshung - Documents on Early Holocaust Research in Postwar Poland

This volume features 50 documents in Polish, Yiddish, and German, with English translations, exemplifying early Holocaust research undertaken by the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland in the years 1944-1949. Featured texts include methodological reflections on how the destruction of European Jews ought to be studied, witness testimonies, and journalistic essays. These writings shed light on the motivations of the commission: commemorating the dead, keeping a historical record of the events, gathering evidence that could be used to bring the perpetrators to justice, working through trauma, loss, and destruction, and providing material for future historical research. The documents are a testimony to the survivors' efforts in using both victim and perpetrator sources to describe the everyday life and death of European Jews under the Nazi regime, while placing the experiences of Jewish communities at the center.

Info autore

Laura Jockusch is the Albert Abramson Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University.

Riassunto

This volume features 50 documents in Polish, Yiddish, and German, with English translations, exemplifying early Holocaust research undertaken by the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland in the years 1944–1949. Featured texts include methodological reflections on how the destruction of European Jews ought to be studied, witness testimonies, and journalistic essays. These writings shed light on the motivations of the commission: commemorating the dead, keeping a historical record of the events, gathering evidence that could be used to bring the perpetrators to justice, working through trauma, loss, and destruction, and providing material for future historical research. The documents are a testimony to the survivors’ efforts in using both victim and perpetrator sources to describe the everyday life and death of European Jews under the Nazi regime, while placing the experiences of Jewish communities at the center.

Prefazione

This volume features 50 documents in Polish, Yiddish, and German, with English translations, exemplifying early Holocaust research undertaken by the Central Jewish Historical Commission in Poland in the years 1944–1949.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Diner (Editore), Dan Diner (Editore), Laur Jockusch (Editore), Laura Jockusch (Editore), Dan Diner (Editore della collana)
• Editore: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 17.01.2022
• EAN: 9783525368565
• ISBN: 978-3-525-36856-5
• Pagine: 853
• Dimensioni: 175 mm x 245 mm x 55 mm
• Peso: 1609 g
• Illustrazioni: mit 22 Abb.
• Serie: Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur; Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur / Archive of Jewish History and Culture; Archiv jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur 006
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); Judenverfolgung, Judentum, Verstehen, Polen, Geschichte Deutschlands, jüdische Geschichte, Quellenedition, Rechtsextreme politische Ideologien und Bewegungen, Holocaust-Forschung, Zentrale Jüdische Historische Kommission in Polen, Aufarbeitung NS-Verbrechen, ca. 1940 bis ca. 1949, Periode des Nationalsozialismus (1933 bis 1945)