Traces of the Holocaust : Journeying in and Out of the Ghettos
'The universe began shrinking,' wrote Elie Wiesel of his Holocaust experiences in Hungary, 'first we were supposed to leave our towns and concentrate in the larger cities. Then the towns shrank to the ghetto, and the ghetto to a house, the house to a room, the room to a cattle car...&...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
2011
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Schlagworte: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jews Jewish ghettos Germany ; Ethnic relations ; History ; 20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) ; Hungary ; History Jewish ghettos ; Germany ; History ; 20th century Jews ; Hungary ; Social conditions ; 20th century Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (159 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 'The universe began shrinking,' wrote Elie Wiesel of his Holocaust experiences in Hungary, 'first we were supposed to leave our towns and concentrate in the larger cities. Then the towns shrank to the ghetto, and the ghetto to a house, the house to a room, the room to a cattle car...' Adopting an innovative multi-perspectival approach framed around a wide variety of material traces - from receipts to maps, name lists to photographs - Tim Cole tells stories of journeys into and out of Hungarian ghettos. These stories of the perpetrators who oversaw ghettoization and deportation, the bystanders who witnessed and aided these journeys, and the victims who undertook them reveal the spatio-temporal dimensions of the Holocaust. But they also point to the visibility of these events within the ordinary spaces of the city, the importance of an economic assault on Jews and the marked gendering of the Holocaust in Hungary. Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- PART I -- Places and Spaces: Journeys to and from the Ghetto -- 1 -- Entering and Exiting the Ghetto: Name Lists from Veszprém -- 2 -- Journeying to and from the Ghetto: Receipts from Nyíregyháza -- 3 -- Debating the Ghetto: Newspapers from Szeged -- 4 -- Placing the Ghetto: Maps from Tolna County -- 5 -- Exiting and Entering the Ghetto: Passes from Körmend -- PART II -- People's Stories: Narratives of Ghettoization and Deportation -- 6 -- Viewing Deportations: Photographs from Körmend, Kőszeg and Balatonfüred -- 7 -- Narrating Concentration and Deportation I: László Ferenczy's Reports -- 8 -- Narrating Concentration and Deportation II: Diary, Memoir and Letters from Nagyvárad -- Epilogue Counter Journeys, Counter Stories -- Notes. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (159 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781441197115 1441197117 9781441169969 1441169962 |