...This chapter presents three essays on Jewish education during the Nazi occupation. The first essay, entitled ‘The Spiritual Attitude of Jewish Youth in the Period before the Second World War and in the Ghetto’, discusses Jewish youth and its spiritual attitude in the pre-war period and during...

... Beauvoir Simone de Deschevaux Dumesnil Suzanne Coetzee J M Edwards Michael Knowlson James Picabia Gabrièle Buffet Kermode Frank Banfield Ann Kaun Axel Joyce James Proust Marcel Derrida Jacques Mooney Sinead Beckett World War II Nazi occupation Resistance France Literature I do not think I...

...This chapter discusses Black Seasons. This book is a compelling first-person narrative about how a Jewish boy who turned five years old in 1939 survived the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Second World War. The boy, Michał Głowiński (hereafter G), went on to become one...

..., the numerous wars and risings, and, above all, the destructive Nazi occupation of Poland (1939–45). Maurycy Horn Saxon era Stanislaw August Poniatowski Nazi occupation Polish Jews Poland The once large Jewish community in Poland left numerous traces of its activities. Much information pertaining...

...This chapter focuses on those Jews who used false Aryan identification papers during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Many towns and cities in occupied Poland were divided into crowded ghettos of displaced Jews and the more fortunate Aryan districts. When it became obvious what was to happen...

... philosophers on the Jewish philosophers in Poland who were murdered during the Nazi occupation. These remarks are followed by essays by Jacek J. Jadacki, R. Jadczak, and Barbara Markiewiecz devoted to the thirty-six commemorated by Polish philosopher Tadeusz Kotarbiński. The essays focus on the relationship...

.... Jean Dutourd's 1952 satirical novel Au Bon Beurre provides evidence of the persistent presence of small shops in France. Dutourd depicts the history of a small shop during the Nazi Occupation of France and highlights the reversal of power relations between customers and shopkeepers. He...

...This chapter focuses on poet Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński. Before the cycle of the trauma of the Nazi occupation's horror, already in the spring of 1941 Baczyński had written a few remarkable poems testifying to his shock at what everybody had seen. Baczyński can be identified as a representative...

... Jedwabne, which is best known for a pogrom that took place during the Nazi occupation of World War II. It also talks about the controversial book, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabe, Poland, written by Jan Tomasz Gross and published in May 2000, which describes...