Language:
German
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
Sachor
Angaben zur Quelle:
11 (2001) 111-128
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Criticizes the great majority of historians for dealing only with the perpetrators of the Holocaust and not with the subjective experience of their victims. This perspective can be gained from reading victims' diaries. Diaries from the Łódź ghetto describe the effects of unbearable hunger, which could break up families because of the competition for food; the apathy in the face of the death of others, but also the pain over the deportation of loved ones; and the despair that hastened death from hunger and disease.
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