Holocaust Memories
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7092-0 (ISBN)
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.
Claudia Moscovici is a Romanian-American author, who writes about the Romantic movement, and psychology as well as historical fiction. Her most recent book, Dangerous Liaisons (Relazioni Pericolose), was launched in Italian translation at the Italian Parliament, Camera dei Deputati.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Joseph Polak |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 376 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7618-7092-X / 076187092X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-7092-0 / 9780761870920 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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