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Holocaust Memories

A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Histories, Novels, and Films
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ISBN-13:
9780761870937
Veröffentl:
2019
Seiten:
250
Autor:
Claudia Moscovici
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

Written for students, specialists, and a general audience, Claudia Moscovici’s Holocaust Memories offers a series of more than sixty brief and informative reviews of Holocaust memoirs, fiction, histories and films.
Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust. There have been hundreds of memoirs, histories and novels written about it, yet many fear that this important event may fall into oblivion. As Holocaust survivors pass away, their legacy of suffering, tenacity and courage could be forgotten. It is up to each generation to commemorate the victims, preserve their life stories and hopefully help prevent such catastrophes. These were my main motivations in writing this book, Holocaust Memories, which includes reviews of memoirs, histories, biographies, novels and films about the Holocaust.

It was difficult to choose among the multitude of books on the subject that deserve our attention. I made my selections based partly on the works that are considered to be the most important on the subject; partly on wishing to offer some historical background about the Holocaust in different countries and regions that were occupied by or allied themselves with Nazi Germany, and partly on my personal preferences, interests and knowledge.

The Nazis targeted European Jews as their main victims, so my book focuses primarily on them. At the same time, since the Nazis also targeted other groups they considered dangerous and inferior, I also review books about the sufferings of the Gypsies, the Poles and other groups that fell victim to the Nazi regimes.

In the last part, I review books that discuss other genocides and crimes against humanity, including the Stalinist mass purges, the Cambodian massacres by the Pol Pot regime and the Rwandan genocide. I want to emphasize that history can, indeed, repeat itself, even if in different forms and contexts. Just as the Jews of Europe were not the only targets of genocide, Fascist regimes were not its only perpetrators.
Foreword by Rabbi Joseph Polak

Introduction

Preface: A Precedent for the Holocaust



1. Between Fanaticism and Terror: Hitler, Stalin and The Noise of Time

2. Elie Wiesel’s Night: Shedding Light Upon the Darkness

3. Bergen-Belsen and Four Perfect Pebbles

4. The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank by Willy Lindwer

5. Hazy Hints of Memory: After the Holocaust the Bells Still Ring

6. Survivors Club: A Family’s Legendary Tale

7. Levi’s Reflection on Humanity in Crisis: Survival in Auschwitz

8. Sarah’s Key and the Holocaust in France

9. The Holocaust in Hungary: Leni Yahil’s The Holocaust

10. A Holocaust Hero in Hungary: Wallenberg by Kati Marton

11. Imre Kertesz’s Fatelessness

12. Anti-Semitism in Hungary Today

13. Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism: Why the Jews?

14. The Role of the Masses in The Origins of Totalitarianism

15. Beyond the Jewish Genocide: Inferno by Max Hastings

16. Hitler’s Ban on Modern Art: The “Degenerate Art” Exhibit

17. Saving European Art from the Nazis: The Monuments Men

18. The Holocaust in Austria and The Woman in Red

19. On the Anschluss: Becoming Alice

20. The Gypsy Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies

21. Eichmann in Jerusalem: What is the Banality of Evil?

22. The Real Banality of Evil: Ordinary Men

23. Eichmann’s Extraordinary Evil: Eichmann Before Jerusalem

24. The Concentration Camp Commandants: Soldiers of Evil

25. The Auschwitz Kommandant: Arthur Wilhelm Liebehenschel

26. The Real Story of the Terezin Jewish Ghetto: I am a Star

27. The Wannsee Conference: Planning the Final Solution

28. America First

29. Quiet Neighbors by Allan A. Ryan

30. Action T 4: From “Euthanasia” to the Final Solution

31. Hitler’s Niece and Historical Fiction

32. An Unlikely Hero: Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

33. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: An Instructive Fable

34. Unbroken: Forgiven but Never Forgotten

35. The 1936 Berlin Olympics: The Boys in the Boat

36. Manufacturing Death: Hell’s Cartel

37. Prosecuting War Crimes: The Nuremberg Trial

38. Kamikaze Warfare: Inferno

39. Hateful Words: Nazi Propaganda

40. A Cowardly Success: Bloodlands

41. Planning a Soviet Holocaust: Stalin’s Last Crime

42. Lebensraum: The Second World War

43. The Siege of Leningrad and Genocide by Starvation

44. The Murderous Einsatzgruppen (Task Forces)

45. Poland’s Plight: Gustaw Herling’s A World Apart

46. Children of the War Years: Witnesses of War

47. Sophie’s Choice: Holocaust Literature as Psychological Fiction

48. An Incredible Tale of Survival: Alicia, My Story

49. Revealing the Ugly Truth: The Holocaust in Romania

50. A Romanian Hero: The Memoirs of Wilhelm Filderman

51. Ion Antonescu: Hitler’s Forgotten Ally

52. Anti-Semitism in Romania: The Journal of Mihai Sebastian

53. Heroism in Hell: Resistance, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

54. Privilege and Persecution: The Diary of Mary Berg

55. Janusz Korczak: The King of the Children of the Warsaw Ghetto

56. The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of Survival in Warsaw

57. Trapped in the Lodz Ghetto: The Cage

58. The Book Thief: Holocaust Literature as Best Seller

59. The Forgotten Holocaust: The Rape of Nanking

60. A Cataclismic War: Postwar, a History of Europe since 1945

61. The Cultural Revolution and The Great Leap Forward

62. The Killing Fields: Genocide in Cambodia

63. Genocide in Rwanda: Me Against My Brother

64. North Korea’s State of Terror: Nothing to Envy

65. Yad Vashem: “A Place and a Name” of Remembrance

66. An Impossible Conflict in Gaza: Rock the Casbah

67. Anti-Semitism Today and the Assault on Democratic Values

68. Would you Forgive the Nazi Perpetrator? The Sunflower

69. Could the Holocaust Happen Again? Nazi Hunter

70. Ethics Above Politics


Conclusion: Judaic Studies and the Holocaust via Reviews

Bibliography

About the Author

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