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The anthology presents new research about the history of the concentration camp Niederhagen and the post war handling with it. Who lived there and what happened with the barracks? Even the early investigation approaches of the Allies and the first memorial projects in the westphalian village are being examined in this volume.
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The anthology presents new research about the history of the concentration camp Niederhagen and the post war handling with it. Who lived there and what happened with the barracks? Even the early investigation approaches of the Allies and the first memorial projects in the westphalian village are being examined in this volume.
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"Marcel Nadjary (1917-1971), juif grec originaire de Thessalonique, déporté à Auschwitz au printemps 1944, est affecté au Sonderkommando. Il écrit une lettre à des amis chers pour leur faire ses adieux et décrire la besogne effroyable qu’il effectue sous la contrainte. Puis il enfouit son manuscrit clandestin dans le sol de Birkenau. Ce document sera retrouvé trente-six ans plus tard, le 24 octobre 1980. Ce témoignage, écrit à “l’épicentre de la catastrophe”, est pour la première fois traduit et publié en français, ainsi qu’un second manuscrit, que Marcel Nadjary rédigea en 1947 pour garder une trace de son expérience au cœur de l’enfer de Birkenau. Des textes de Serge Klarsfeld, Nelly Nadjary, Alberto Nadjary, Fragiski Ampatzopoulou, Georges Didi-Huberman, Tal Bruttmann, Loïc Marcou et Andreas Kilian accompagnent et éclairent ces deux documents exceptionnels."
Sonderkommandos --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Natzarē, Marsel, --- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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"A legend that captures the imagination of audiences and shapes representations of the Holocaust is that in Nazi concentration camps Jewish musicians were forced to play a Tango of Death as men, women and children made their way to the gas chambers. This book traces the origins of this legend to a little known concentration camp in Ukraine where musicians were forced to perform a Jewish tango before they were murdered themselves. By reconstructing the creation of this legend, the book shows how the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether"--
Jews --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Persecutions --- Janowska (Concentration camp)
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"A legend that captures the imagination of audiences and shapes representations of the Holocaust is that in Nazi concentration camps Jewish musicians were forced to play a Tango of Death as men, women and children made their way to the gas chambers. This book traces the origins of this legend to a little known concentration camp in Ukraine where musicians were forced to perform a Jewish tango before they were murdered themselves. By reconstructing the creation of this legend, the book shows how the actual history is hidden, distorted, or even lost altogether"--
Jews --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Persecutions --- Janowska (Concentration camp)
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From 1929 to 1958, hundreds of thousands of prisoners and exiles from across the Soviet Union were sent to the harsh yet resource-rich Komi Republic in Russia's Far North. When the Soviet Union collapsed, former prisoners sent their autobiographies to Komi's local branches of the anti-Stalinist Memorial Society and history museums. Using these previously unavailable personal records, alongside newspapers, photographs, interviews, and other non-state archival sources, After the Gulag sheds new light not only on how former prisoners experienced life after release but also how they laid the foundations for the future commemoration of Komi's dark past. Bound by a "camp brotherhood," they used informal social networks to provide mutual support amid state and societal oppression. Decades later, they sought rehabilitation with the help of the newly formed Memorial Society-the civic organization largely responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. In sharing their life stories and family archives with Memorial, they sustained an alternate history of the Soviet Union. Offering an unprecedented look at the legacies of mass repression under Stalin, After the Gulag explores how ordinary political prisoners from across the Soviet Union navigated life after release, using memoirs, letters, and art to translate their experiences and shape the politics of memory in post-Soviet Russia.
Internment camp inmates --- Political prisoners --- Forced labor --- Memorialization --- History.
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In the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational interventions, Judaism as they understood it would disappear altogether. They pinned their hopes on residential summer camps for Jewish youth: institutions that sprang up across the U.S. in the postwar decades as places for children and teenagers to socialize, recreate, and experience Jewish culture. Adults' fears, hopes, and dreams about the Jewish future inflected every element of camp life, from the languages they taught to what was encouraged romantically and permitted sexually. But adult plans did not constitute everything that occurred at camp: children and teenagers also shaped these sleepaway camps to mirror their own desires and interests and decided whether to accept or resist the ideas and ideologies their camp leaders promoted. Focusing on the lived experience of campers and camp counselors, The Jews of Summer demonstrates how a cultural crisis birthed a rite of passage that remains a significant influence in American Jewish life.
Jewish camps --- Jewish youth --- Jews --- History --- Recreation --- Social life and customs --- United States --- American Jews. --- American Judaism. --- Childhood. --- Jewish Education. --- Overnight Camp. --- Summer Camp. --- Yiddishism. --- Youth. --- Zionism.
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Contrainte, intrusive, tortionnaire ou, au contraire, résistante, très rarement récréative, la musique a résonné quotidiennement dans les camps de concentration et les centres de mise à mort du régime nazi. Grâce à une approche topographique, La Musique dans les camps nazis entend faire découvrir les multiples usages de la musique dans le système concentrationnaire, en se fondant sur des témoignages écrits, des dessins réalisés par des détenu·e·s ou des survivant·e·s, des partitions et des objets liés aux orchestres, ainsi que sur des photographies officielles ou clandestines. Si la musique a servi avant tout au fonctionnement des politiques d'anéantissement dans les camps, elle a parfois pu contribuer à mettre en échec certains aspects du système en permettant, même furtivement, la constitution de communautés dans une humanité retrouvée
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"In 1956, a group of 548 refugees escaping the violence of the Hungarian Revolution arrived on the shores of Ireland. With its own history shaped by waves of emigration to escape war, famine, and religious persecution, Ireland responded by creating its first international refugee settlement. Suitable Strangers reveals the firsthand experiences of the men, women, and children who lived in the Knockalisheen refugee camp near Limerick. For the majority of those living in the camp, Ireland was meant to be a temporary waystation on their ultimate journeys, primarily to Canada, the United States, and Australia. But after almost six months of uncertainty and feeling neglected by the Irish government, the Hungarian refugees began a hunger strike, which garnered national resentment and international headlines. Vera Sheridan explores this revolt and ensuing events by offering a complex and nuanced examination of the daily routines, state policies, and international motives that shaped life in the camp. A fascinating read for historians as well as those interested in refugee and migrant studies, Suitable Strangers complicates the Irish diaspora by providing a closer look at the realities of Ireland's Knockalisheen refugee settlement"--
Hungarians --- Refugees --- Hunger strikes --- Social conditions --- History --- Knockalisheen (Displaced persons camp) --- Hungary --- Limerick (Limerick, Ireland)
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Une nouvelle enquête passionnante sur l'histoire de la Solution finale, à lire les yeux grands ouverts, comme une page de l'histoire de l'humanité. Une nuit d'avril 1944, Walter Rosenberg, bientôt connu sous le nom de Rudolf Vrba, un jeune Juif slovaque de 19 ans, et son ami Alfréd Wetzler parviennent à s'évader d'Auschwitz. Leur objectif : prévenir le monde de l'existence de cette usine de mort et tenter de sauver de la chambre à gaz le prochain convoi de Juifs hongrois. Près de deux ans plus tôt, après un bref séjour dans le camp de Majdanek, Rosenberg est déporté à Auschwitz. Contraint aux travaux forcés à Buna, il est ensuite affecté à la " rampe " où débarquent les Juifs de toute l'Europe. La majorité d'entre eux sont gazés après la " sélection ". Les rares survivants subissent persécutions, violences et cruautés incessantes. Doté d'une mémoire phénoménale, Walter enregistre tout jusqu'au moindre détail durant sa captivité : le fonctionnement du camp, sa géographie, son économie, l'organisation de son système ferroviaire. Après son évasion, il consigne avec son codétenu l'ensemble de ces informations dans le Rapport Vrba-Wetzler. Ce document de 32 pages, aussi appelé " Protocole d'Auschwitz ", envoyé à Churchill, Roosevelt et au pape Pie XII, sera le premier récit détaillé sur le camp à atteindre les Alliés. Rudolf Vrba sera également l'un des témoins capitaux du film Shoah de Claude Lanzmann. Cette nouvelle enquête dévoile l'incroyable histoire d'un homme que personne n'a voulu croire.
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