This is the first full-scale, step-by-step account of the climatic 28-day struggle of the poorly armed Jews against their Nazi exterminators. ...

Narratives of large-scale historical horror and trauma cross a terrible boundary in representation. What forms are adequate to such experience? What are the forms that such narratives actually take? Fridman is fascinated by the boundary that separates the representable from the unrepresentable and by the sense that literary works on either side of this boundary are governed by a different dynamic and set of rules from one another. Close readings ...

Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, James Hatley uses the prose of Primo Levi and Taduesz Borowski, as well as the poetry of Paul Celan, to question why witnessing the Shoah is so pressing a responsibility for anyone living in its aftermath. He argues that the witnessing of irreparable loss leaves one in unresolvable quandary but that the attentiveness of that witness resists the destructive legacy of annihilation.<P>"In this new ...

A valuable and important addition to the literature of Holocaust and Survivors of World War 2. Professor Kooistra was Chaplain at the University of Waterloo in Ontario after he emigrated to Canada from Holland. During his tenure at Waterloo, he created a Study Group which made oral histories of Holocaust victims and Survivors. From this vast wealth of material, he has now prepared this book. The book has a definite Dutch focus. It provides ...

In 1997, Binjamin Wilkomirski came to New York to read from his prize-winning Holocaust memoir "Fragments, " and meet his perhaps-relatives, the Wilburs. A year later, however, Binjamin was publicly accused of being a gentile impostor. The reactions of the media, the child-survivor community, and the Wilburs themselves shed light on debates about the reliability of memory, the nature of identity, and the uses and misuses of history. Photos. ...

This book considers Holocaust plays ???in performance??? and the legitimacy of presenting the Holocaust on the stage.
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How far would one go to save his own or a loved one's life? Riveting and true, these historical accounts reveal the plight, dilemmas, and dreadful options of eight Jewish men and women in differing concentration camps. ...

The books is divided into two sections: Part one is the first person account of the author's father, Israel, in the Concentration Camps of Treblinka, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Matthausen. Part two is the author's analysis of the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation, raised under the shadow of the Holocaust. There is additional poetry written by the author's daughter, reflecting on her feelings upon returning to the camps where her ...

Three generations speak about the effect of the Holocaust on their lives. Part one is the moving, first person account of the author's father, Israel, in the Concentration Camps of Treblinka, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Matthausen. Part two is the author's analysis of the impact of the Holocaust on the second generation who were raised under the shadow of the Holocaust. Yet a third generation speaks, in the voice of Israel's granddaughters, the ...

When the lives of three children of Holocaust survivors intersect, the three men are forced to deal with secrets and buried pain. ...