Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Remembering for the Future; Working Papers and Addenda
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1989) 2251-2262
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Study and teaching
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
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Kladovo (Serbia)
Abstract:
Examines the importance of personal letters as a source for contemporary history and for the study and teaching of the Holocaust in particular. Presents a case study of a collection of 85 letters written by a young Jewish refugee, Walter Klein, who fled Vienna in November 1939, along with 1,200 other German and Austrian Jews (in the ill-fated Kladovo-Šabac group), with the intention of reaching Palestine. They were to have sailed up the Danube to the Black Sea but were forced by circumstances to stop in Kladovo, Serbia, where most of them were eventually murdered by the Nazis who invaded Yugoslavia in spring 1941. Discusses the historical and literary significance of this type of source.
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Record created automatically from multi-article record # 000030013
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Appeared also in "Holocaust and Genocide Studies" 4,3 (1989) 341-355.
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