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Chelmno (Concentration camp) --- Chełmno nad Nerem (Concentration camp) --- Chełmno/Ner (Concentration camp) --- Chełmno on the Ner (Concentration camp) --- Chełmno am Ner (Concentration camp) --- Kulmhof a.d. Neer (Concentration camp) --- Khelemno (Concentration camp) --- Ḳulmhof (Concentration camp)
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Rising from the Ruins is an assessment of reason, being, and the good in a world fractured by the passage of the Shoah, or Holocaust. The historical character of evil that appeared in the Shoah damaged the relationship of human existence to being, creating a time when the confidence of reason to possess the truth no longer exists. Rising from the Ruins relocates the relationships among being, reason, and the good in terms of a metaphysics, ethics, and politics that derive from faith and heteronomy.Rather than another attempt to document the horror of the Shoah, this book chronicles what the world is like for those who have read and listened to previous accounts. Rising from the Ruins doesn't celebrate surviving the Holocaust; instead, it speaks of a rationality that sees truth and the good through the eyes of suffering and the silence of death. Such a rationality, Gillan suggests, looks more like faith, and it takes its place among the sweat and tears of common men and women who are dedicated to building a human city, populated with children, the poor, the sick, and the aged.
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Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp)
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This is the first attempt to explain how Jewish doctors survived extreme adversity in Auschwitz where death could occur at any moment. The ordinary Jewish slave labourer survived an average of fifteen weeks. Ross Halpin discovers that Jewish doctors survived an average of twenty months, many under the same horrendous conditions as ordinary prisoners. Despite their status as privileged prisoners Jewish doctors starved, froze, were beaten to death and executed. Many Holocaust survivors attest that luck, God and miracles were their saviors. The author suggests that surviving Auschwitz was far more complex. Interweaving the stories of Jewish doctors before and during the Holocaust Halpin develops a model that explains the anatomy of survival. According to his model the genesis of survival of extreme adversity is the will to live which must be accompanied by the necessities of life, specific personal traits and defence mechanisms. For survival all four must co-exist.
Auschwitz. --- jüdische Ärzte. --- Überleben. --- HISTORY / Holocaust. --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp)
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The Sonderkommando of Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before. Over a period of years, Gideon Greif interviewed intensively all Sonderkommando survivors living in Israel. They describe not only the details of the German-Nazi killing program but also the moral and human challenges they faced. The book provides direct testimony about the "Final Solution of the Jewish Problem," but it is also a unique document on the boundless cruelty and deceit practiced by the Germans. It documents the helplessness and powerlessness of the one-and-a-half million people, 90 percent of them Jews, who were brutally murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Sonderkommandos --- Concentration camp inmates --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Nazi concentration camp inmates --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp)
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Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines
United States. --- African Americans --- History --- Montford Point Camp (Camp Lejeune, N.C.) --- Camp Lejeune (N.C.) --- United States --- Race relations
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"No person was more responsible for converting English rugby into American football than Walter Camp (1859-1925). As a player at Yale, then a coach at Yale and Stanford, a sportswriter for Harper's Weekly and other major magazines, and an influential member of rules committees, he patiently and gradually transformed the sport into the football we recognize today. In this freshly researched biography, Roger Tamte follows Camp from infancy to the meeting of the rules committee in 1903. That meeting established the modern game, including scoring, play ending after a tackle, resuming on opposite sides of a line of scrimmage, plays beginning with a snap to the quarterback, and a system of downs and yardage goals for retaining or losing possession. The incremental changes that Camp introduced and championed did not come easily. In addition to the usual resistance to change, he had to confront academic, press, and governmental complaints about the brutality of the game. As the popularity of college football drew more spectators, games needed larger stadiums. Camp had to address questions of eligibility, officiating, and scheduling. And he had a personal life and a professional business career to maintain. His was a busy life, and one worth telling"--
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports. --- SPORTS & RECREATION / History. --- SPORTS & RECREATION / Football. --- Sportswriters --- Football coaches --- Football players --- Camp, Walter, --- Camp, Walt, --- Camp, W. C. --- Camp, Walter Chauncey, --- Colton, Matthew M.,
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"Lilka Trzcinska was fourteen years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939. The daughter of an architect, Lilka was a high school student at the time. When schools were closed by the occupier, she, along with her siblings, continued their education in secret classes and joined the Polish Home Army - the secret resistance force." "Lilka and her family were arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and sent to the political prison Pawiak, then to Auschwitz. There, Lilka's mother died, and her younger sister was sent off to another camp. The rest of the family was put to work in the camp building offices. After being transported to a number of other camps (in one instance by way of a three-day march), the three sisters were reunited in 1945, and shortly thereafter liberated by the British. Lilka later went to Italy to coninue her education, moving to Canada in 1948." "The Labyrinth of Dangerous Hours is the memoir of a survivor. Lilka Trzcinska-Croydon narrates her adolescence and that of her sisters and brother in a way than binds poetry and history together seamlessly. It describes the strength of the family ties and solidarity that helped them emerge from their horrific ordeal with their dignity intact."--Jacket.
World War, 1939-1945 --- Prisoners and prisons, German. --- Underground movements --- Trzcinska-Croydon, Lilka. --- Croydon, Lilka Trzcinska --- -Trzcinska, Helena --- Croydon, Lilka --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) --- KL Auschwitz --- Oświęcim (Concentration camp) --- Konzentrationslager Auschwitz --- Oshṿits (Concentration camp) --- Aušvic (Concentration camp) --- KZ Auschwitz --- Auschwitz I (Concentration camp) --- Concentration camp "Auschwitz" --- CC Auschwitz --- אוישוויץ --- אושוויץ --- אושוויץ (מחנה-ריכוז) --- מחנה אושווינצ׳ים --- Osvent︠s︡im (Concentration camp) --- Aushvit︠s︡ (Concentration camp) --- Освенцим (Concentration camp) --- Aousvits (Concentration camp) --- Аушвіц (Concentration camp) --- Poland --- History
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Wichita (Kan.) --- Camp Davidson (Kan.) --- Doo-Dah (Kan.) --- Doodah (Kan.) --- Camp Beecher (Kan.) --- History
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