ISBN:
9781350058613
,
9781350058606
,
9781350058590
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 158 pages)
Edition:
2014
Year of publication:
2018
Series Statement:
Perspectives on the Holocaust
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hughes, Judith M., 1941 - Witnessing the Holocaust
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Klemperer, Victor 1881-1960
;
Klüger, Ruth 1931-2020
;
Głowiński, Michał 1934-
;
Levi, Primo 1919-1987
;
Kertész, Imre 1929-2016
;
Zsolt, Béla 1895-1949
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Überlebender
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Überlebender
;
Autobiografie
Abstract:
"Witnessing the Holocaust presents the autobiographical writings, including diaries and autobiographical fiction, of six Holocaust survivors who lived through and chronicled the Nazi genocide. Drawing extensively on the works of Victor Klemperer, Ruth Kluger, Michal Glowinski, Primo Levi, Imre Kert ̌and B ̌Zsolt, this books conveys, with vivid detail, the persecution of the Jews from the beginning of the Third Reich until its very end. It gives us a sense both of what the Holocaust meant to the wider community swept up in the horrors and what it was like for the individual to weather one of the most shocking events in history. Survivors and witnesses disappear, and history, not memory, becomes the instrument for recalling the past. Judith M. Hughes secures a place for narratives by those who experienced the Holocaust in person. This compelling text is a vital read for all students of the Holocaust and Holocaust memory."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-152) and index
DOI:
10.5040/9781350058613
