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Navraty : povalecna rekonstrukce zidovskych komunit v zemich stredovychodni jihovychodni a vychodni Evropy
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ISBN: 8024632993 9788024632711 8024632713 9788024632995 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Karolinum,

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Konec druhé světové války je často vnímán jako ukončení násilí, počátek míru a návrat k normalitě. Avšak monografie Návraty. Poválečná rekonstrukce židovských komunit v zemích středovýchodní, jihovýchodní a východní Evropy ukazuje, že takový obraz je do značné míry zjednodušující. Kniha zkoumá nejen samotnou cestu přeživších holocaust zpět, ale především mnohost a různorodost toho, jak jejich fyzický a mentální návrat ovlivnil je samotné a jejich okolí. Kam se vlastně vracejí? Kdo na ně čeká? A jak společnost jejich návrat přijímá? Čtenář záhy pozná, že autobiografické příběhy přeživších, kteří prožili rasovou perzekuci během druhé světové války v úkrytech, koncentračních a vyhlazovacích táborech, v odboji nebo pod falešnou nežidovskou identitou, dávají návratu, tedy klíčovému pojmu této knihy, jinou a v mnoha případech hořkou příchuť. Kniha za pomoci více než stovky rozhovorů v sedmnácti jazycích vykresluje poválečnou realitu plastickým způsobem. Přeživší sice okamžik osvobození sami vnímali jako „konec příběhu“ války a perzekuce, jak ale tato monografie dokládá, osvobozením jejich příběh zdaleka neskončil. Kolektivní práce pod vedením Kateřiny Králové a Hany Kubátové je unikátní publikací, která vznikla jako společné dílo s účastí mladých badatelů Fakulty sociálních věd Univerzity Karlovy v Praze. Je odrazem dlouhodobé a citlivé práce se studenty a jejím cílem je problematizovat stále poměrně opomíjenou, avšak pořád traumatizující poválečnou dobu.


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How Young Holocaust Survivors Rebuilt Their Lives : France, the United States, and Israel
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ISBN: 0253033993 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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Drawing on testimonies, memoirs, and personal interviews of Holocaust survivors, Francoise S. Ouzan reveals how the experience of Nazi persecution impacted their personal reconstruction, rehabilitation, and reintegration into a free society. She sheds light on the life trajectories of various groups of Jews, including displaced persons, partisan fighters, hidden children, and refugees from Nazism. Ouzan shows that personal success is not only a unifying factor among these survivors but is part of an ethos that unified ideas of homeland, social justice, togetherness, and individual aspirations in the redemptive experience. Exploring how Holocaust survivors rebuilt their lives after World War II, Ouzan tells the story of how they coped with adversity and psychic trauma to contribute to the culture and society of their country of residence.


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Frozen mud and red ribbons : a Romanian Jewish girl's survival through the holocaust in Transnistria and its rippling effect on the second generation
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Stuttgart, Germany : Ibidem Verlag,

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Fighting cancer with knowledge and hope : a guide for patients, families, and health care providers
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ISBN: 030019093X 9780300190939 9780300190618 0300190611 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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Anyone who is diagnosed with cancer receives a frightening blow, and in many cases the diagnosis is accompanied by a bewildering array of treatment choices. In this invaluable book, a compassionate and knowledgeable physician explains what cancer is, which factors determine a patient's prognosis, how cancer treatments work to eradicate cancer, why they sometimes fail, and what patients can do to optimize their own survival. The second edition of this essential resource for patients and their families discusses new treatment options that have become available, including targeted therapies, immune therapies, and personalized cancer medicine. Information on the types of medicines used to fight cancer has been completely updated and revised; also included is a new section on alternative cancer therapies. Winner of the 2010 American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award in the Health Care Professionals-Nonphysician category Winner of the 2010 Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Communication, given by the New England Chapter of the American Medical Writers Association


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Writing in Witness : A Holocaust Reader
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ISBN: 1438470339 9781438470337 9781438470313 1438470312 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : State University of New York Press,

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"Writing in Witness is a broad survey of the most important writing about the Holocaust produced by eyewitnesses at the time and soon after. Whether they intended to spark resistance and undermine Nazi authority, to comfort family and community, to beseech God, or to leave a memorial record for posterity, the writers reflect on the power and limitations of the written word in the face of events often thought to be beyond representation. The diaries, journals, letters, poems, and other works were created across a geography reaching from the Baltics to the Balkans, from the Atlantic coast to the heart of the Soviet Union, and in a wide array of original languages. Along with the readings, Eric J. Sundquist's introductions provide a comprehensive account of the Holocaust as a historical event. Including works by prominent authors such as Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel as well as those little known or anonymous, Writing in Witness provides, in vital and memorable examples, a wide-ranging account of the Holocaust by those who felt the imperative to give written testimony"--Publisher's website.


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Harry Haft : survivor of Auschwitz, challenger of Rocky Marciano.
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ISBN: 0815608004 9780815608004 Year: 2006 Publisher: Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press,

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Alan Scott Haft provides the firsthand testimony of his father, Harry Haft, a Holocaust victim with a singular story of endurance, desperation, and unrequited love. Harry Haft was a sixteen-year-old Polish Jew when he entered a concentration camp in 1944. Forced to fight other Jews in bare-knuckle bouts for the perverse entertainment of SS officers, Harry quickly learned that his own survival depended on his ability to fight and win. Haft details the inhumanity of the "sport" in which he must perform in brutal contests for the officers. Ultimately escaping the camp, Haft's experience left him an embittered and pugnacious young man. Determined to find freedom, Haft traveled to America and began a career as a professional boxer, quickly finding success using his sharp instincts and fierce confidence. In a historic battle, Haft fights in a match with Rocky Marciano, the future undefeated heavyweight champion of the world. Haft's boxing career takes him into the world of such boxing legends as Rocky Graziano, Roland LaStarza, and Artie Levine, and he reveals new details about the rampant corruption at all levels of the sport. --


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Survivors : children's lives after the Holocaust
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ISBN: 0300255853 0300255853 9780300255850 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press,

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Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust.


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Pediatric Cancer Survivors
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ISBN: 9535132202 9535132199 9535148060 Year: 2017 Publisher: IntechOpen

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Pediatric cancer develops in 1 to 500 children. Typically, the type of cancers that develop in children is different than those that develop in adults, in that they are often the result of a DNA mutation rather than environmental or lifestyle risk factors. Leukemia, brain and central nervous system tumors, and neuroblastomas are the most common cancer types in child populations. Children tend to respond better to anticancer treatments, including chemotherapy and radiation. However, long-term side effects are common in children, often requiring follow-up care and lifestyle intervention for the rest of their lives. The percentage of 5-year survivors was over 50% for the most common cancers. This suggests that a majority of cancers in this population are highly survivable. As such, research should focus on aspects of survivorship for these individuals. This book will explore issues related to pediatric cancer and their associated treatments.

My Germany : a Jewish writer returns to the world his parents escaped
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ISBN: 1282270567 0299231534 9786612270567 9780299231538 029923150X 9780299231507 9780299231507 9780299231545 Year: 2009 Publisher: Madison, Wis. : Terrace Books,

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Jew boy
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ISBN: 9781501714900 1501714902 9781501714917 1501714910 9781501714894 1501714899 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ithaca

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Jew Boy is Alan Kaufman's riveting memoir of being raised by a Jewish mother who survived the Holocaust. This pioneering masterpiece, the very first memoir of its kind by a member of the Second Generation is Kaufman's coming-of-age account, by turns hilarious and terrifying, written with irreverent humor and poetic introspection. Throughout the course of his memoir, Kaufman touches on the pain, guilt, and confusion that shape the lives and characters of American-born children of Holocaust survivors. Kaufman struggles to comprehend what it means to be Jewish as he deals with the demons haunting his mother and attempts to escape his wretched home life by devoting himself to high school football. He eventually hitchhikes across the country, coming face-to-face with the phantoms he fled. Taking us from the streets of the Bronx to the highways of America, the kibbutzim and Israeli army to personal rebirth in San Francisco, and finally to a final reckoning in Germany, Jew Boy shines with the universal humanity of a brilliant writer embracing the gift of life. Kaufman's fierce passion will leave no reader untouched.

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