...Chapter 2 looks at the women who survived at the periphery of the Nazi genocide—by hiding in the countryside, towns, and cities of German-occupied countries such as Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and the Ukraine. Forced to leave their homes, families had to decide whether to try to stay together...

...This chapter evaluates when and how the outside world came to know about the Nazi genocide during the Second World War. In Sweden, there has been considerable public and private debate on this question centred on a document from August of 1942, known as the Vendel Report, which contains...

... Sejm Ustawodawczy Borowski Tadeusz Holocaust literature Polish on the Holocaust Wójcik Włodzimierz Iwaszkiewicz Jarosław Pieńkowska Ewa Shelley Lore Vogler Henryk Kaplan Harold Zofa Nałkowska literary Holocaust memorial Holocaust Medallions anti-fascist world literature Nazi genocide...

..., but at the same time brought about a renewal of the idea on the ethical and historical lessons imparted by the Nazi genocide. Africa aggression Argentina assimilation Jewish Canada Freud Sigmund integration Jewish migration pogroms psychoanalysis Russia socialism South Africa United States of America...

... with partial but increasing success, notwithstanding the new debates that have emerged in recent years concerning Polish behaviour during the Nazi genocide of the Jews that Poles had ignored for half a century. This volume considers these contentious issues from different angles. Among the topics covered...

...This chapter explains why one should consider H.G. Adler when debating on the Nazi genocide. Adler was an academic by profession, and then a poet later on, which profession he used to transpose his experiences of when he was transported to Auschwitz with his wife and mother. During his time...

.... It tells a story of a past that cannot be relegated to oblivion; it examines the relationship between rationalist modernity and the Nazi genocide; and, with its use of visual images and distended syntax, it produces its very own sense of time, one that does not proceed in a linear manner or divide easily...

...This chapter explores the Nazi genocide directly. It argues that it was the pursuit and repeated failure—between 1939 and 1941—of economic and utilitarian goals drafted in the context of social modernization efforts that created the conditions for mass murder to emerge as an administratively...

... regard to the central role that the Holocaust plays in Israel's life. This article explores this pervasive impact on the State of Israel, whose existence has depended significantly on survivors and memories of the Nazi genocide against the Jewish people. Balfour Declaration Holocaust Israel League...

... and culture Karaite population Crimea Krymchak population Crimea socialist realism Nazi genocide Holocaust by bullets photojournalism Soviet photography On September 17, 1936, a twenty-four-year-old apprentice working for Izvestiia named Dmitri Baltermants had his first photograph...

... to expose the role of alcohol and celebratory ritual in the Nazi genocide of European Jews. Its surprising and disturbing findings offer a new perspective on the mindset, motivation, and mentality of killers as they prepared for, and participated in, mass extermination....

...This chapter examines Bowman's role in dealing with the refugees of the Second World War, especially the Nazi genocide. Bowman's work on the pioneer fringe and his pursuit of a “science of settlement” led him to help formulate U.S. refugee policy. It observes that Bowman's government work after...

... faced previously unimaginable losses—personal, political, economic, and social. And although immeasurably luckier than Jews caught up in the Nazi genocide, few refugees knew that at the time. They realized that friends and family trapped in Europe suffered, but they could not predict mass murder, nor...

...The assessment of the Nazi genocide in Poland, an issue which has deeply divided Poles and Jews, lies at the core of this volume. Also included are discussions of Polish attitudes to the nearly 300,000 Jews who tried to resettle in post-war Poland; the little-known testimony of Belzec survivor...

...This book takes Hannah Arendt's provocative and polarizing account of the 1961 trial of Nazi official Adolf Eichmann as its point of departure for reassessing some of the serviceable myths that have come to shape and limit our understanding both of the Nazi genocide and totalitarianism's broader...