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Book SynopsisHow the Soviet Union reestablished power in a changed Kyiv following the retreat of Nazi forces, consolidating its regime as it headed into the Cold War. Kyiv as Regime City charts the resettlement of the Ukrainian capital after Nazi occupation, focusing on the efforts of returning Soviet rulers to regain legitimacy within a Moscow-centered regime still attending to the warfront. Beginning with the Ukrainian Communists' inability to both purge their capital city of "socially dangerous" people and prevent the arrival of "unorganized" evacuees from the rear, this book chronicles how a socially and ethnically diverse milieu of Kyivans reassembled after many years of violence and terror. While the Ukrainian Communists successfully guarded entry into their privileged, elite ranks and monitored the masses' mood toward their superiors in Moscow, the party failed to conscript a labor force and rebuild housing, leading the Stalin regime to adopt new tactics to legitimize itself among the large Ukrainian and Jewish populations who once again called the city home. Drawing on sources from the once-closed central, regional, and local archives of the former Soviet Union, this study is essential reading for those seeking to understand how the Kremlin reestablished its power in Kyiv, consolidating its regime as the Cold War with the United States began. Funded by the Knowledge Unlatched Select 2023 collection, this title is available as an Open Access ebook under the Creative Commons License: CC BY NCTrade ReviewWell-written, accessible to scholars and general readers alike, with a balanced, logical structure, advancing compelling arguments substantiated by the wealth of archival sources, the book is a welcome addition to the historiography of the postwar Soviet Union. * AB IMPERIO *An excellent source of information on the rich and complex period at wars end, and will be interesting to scholars of Soviet history, Ukrainian and Jewish history, and urban history as well. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *[Blackwell's] use of Kyivan archival material is impressive...scholars interested in the history of Kyiv and the Great Patriotic War will find this work extremely valuable. * THE RUSSIAN REVIEW *Blackwell's useful monograph is a tightly knit examination of multiethnic Kyiv between November 6, 1943 and early 1947. * SLAVIC REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction "The Capital Is Being Settled All Over Again": Resettlement from Fall 1943 to Fall 1944 "There Was No Real Battle against Illegal Entry": Resettlement from Fall 1944 to Fall 1946 "People Are Going for the Party Who Are Forcing Us to Be Justifiably Careful": The Reassembled Elite "A Textual Implementation of the Law . . . Was Not Carried Out": The Reassembled Masses "The State's Dignity Is Higher Than His Own Dignity": The Relegitimization of Soviet Power "Tashkent Partisans" and "German Bitches": Relationships with Soviet Power Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust. During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of Bulgaria as a European exception has prevailed—but at a cost. For it ignored the roundup of almost all the Jews living in the Yugoslav and Greek territories under Bulgarian occupation between 1941 and 1944, who were in fact deported to Poland, where they were murdered. In this new English translation of her work originally published in French, Nadège Ragaru presents a riveting, wide-ranging archival investigation encompassing 80 years and six countries (Bulgaria, Germany, the United States, Israel, North Macedonia and Serbia), in doing so exploring the origins and perpetuation of this heroic narrative of Bulgaria's past. Moving between legal and political spheres, from artistic creations to museum exhibits, from the writing of history to transnational public controversies, she shows how the Holocaust north of the Danube became a "rescue" to the river's south. She traces how individual merits were turned into "national" achievements, while blame for the deportations was planted squarely on Nazi Germany. And she illuminates how discussions on the Holocaust in Bulgaria were held hostage to Cold War dynamics before 1989, only to yield to political and memorial struggles afterwards. Ultimately, she restores Jewish voices to the story of their own wartime suffering. On publication this book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction On the "Rescue of the Jews" and National Exceptionalism: A Riddle of Received Wisdom Knowledge about the Holocaust: Justice, Fiction, and Controversies Contours of an Investigation Nationalizing the Past, Internationally Reassessing the Cold War Era The Way Forward Chapter 1. The Judicial Production of an Account of Anti-Jewish Persecution: The Genesis of a Heroic Narrative Judging in Time of War The (In)visibility of Anti-Jewish Crimes in the "General Trials" The Construction of a Judicial Cause by Bulgarian Communist Jews A Sketch of the Trial Scene Courtroom 11 The Germans, the Fascists, and the "Good People": Drawing the Perimeter of Guilt A Fascist is an Anti-Semite... and Vice Versa The Euphemization of Jewish Suffering The Posterity of the Court: A Central Elision Chapter 2. Deportation of the Jews, from Belomorie to the Screen: Negotiating a "Socialist" Reading of the War Cinemas on Unequal Terms in Bulgaria and East Germany Elusive Presences of the Holocaust on the Screens One Co-production, Two Institutions, Several Agendas Konrad Wolf and Angel Wagenstein, a Dear Friendship Shooting Notes, and Other Digressions Script, Storyboard, and Film: Effects of Cutting and Framing Two Very Different Wars: The Bulgarian Lens Negotiating an East-East Reading of Nazism: German Polychromy? Jewish Fates, in a Minor Key Jewish Passivity: A Question of Gender? Christian Signs forJewish Suffering? A Transnational Symbolic Repertoire Chapter 3. The Deportation of Jews from Northern Greece: The Mysterious Journeys of a 1943 Film Footage Archival Inventories as Texts and Gaze A Film withoutan Author or Instructions? Scrutinizing Frames that Resist Analysis From Visual Document to Legal Evidence: The Beckerle Case Judicial Cooperation between West Germany, the United States, Israel, and Bulgaria: A Tale of the Cold War When Art Meets the Intelligence Community Cultural Diplomacy and the "Rescue of the Bulgarian Jews" The "Rescue" Goes West: Managing Scarcity and Acquisition Competitions Managing Scarcity and Acquisition Competitions Epilogue Chapter 4. Accounts of "Rescue" and Deportation in Dialogue: Memory Controversies after 1989 Bringing Back the Polyphony of the Past: (In)divisible Truths When History takes Center Stage Re-negotiating the Territorial Span of Bulgaria's Historical Narrative Words and Walls of Conflict in Balkan Jewish Communities The "Blagovest Sendov" Affair: A Bulgarian Forest in the (Domestic) Political Arena Dimităr Pešev: A New Topography of Memory Chapter 5. Fruitful Disputes? Transnational Mobilizations and the Institutionalization of a Space of Dissensus Charting a New Historiography Bulgarian-Macedonian Holocaust Controversies When European Institutions Discuss History and Memory Games of Scale, Games of Chess: Debating Bulgaria's Memory Policies Remembering the Holocaust to Fight Anti-Semitism: A Room forConvergence? In the Spotlight of Euro-Atlantic Integration Conclusion Historiographical Disputes What We Talk About When We Talk About the Holocaust Jewish Voices in the Writing of the Past Challenges of the Page: Leafing Through Time, Speaking the Seen Appendix: The March 1943 Deportations from Territories Occupied by Bulgaria Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCamp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations across the country and set a high standard for the treatment of prisoners.Between 1943 and 1945, the camp housed roughly 4,700 German POWs and experienced tense relations between incarcerated Nazi and anti-Nazi factions. Then, during the last months of the war, the American military selected Camp Huntsville as the home of its top-secret re-education program for Japanese POWs.The irony of teaching Japanese prisoners about democracy and voting rights was not lost on African Americans in East Texas who faced disenfranchisement and racial segregation. Nevertheless, the camp did inspire some Japanese prisoners to support democratization of their home country when they returned to Japan after the war. Meanwhile, in this country, the US government sold Camp Huntsville to Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1946, and the site served as the school's Country Campus through the mid-1950s.Trade Review“This long-overdue project is one I started working on decades ago but didn't finish. It is gratifying to see the book come to fruition through the efforts of these two history professors. And what a job they've done!” - Paul Ruffin, Director, TRP

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Book SynopsisWhen Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and other Western positions in the Asia-Pacific World in December 1941, it was unprepared to go to war with the United States and the Western Democracies generally and even realized it could not win. Its navy and air force were impressive, and its army could battle impressively against China, but Japanese small arms were terrible. Japan’s tanks could not compete with their opposite numbers. The Empire’s logistical base was undeveloped for modern warfare. While the Allies could produce large numbers of trained many pilots, Japan produced very few. When its elite airmen were lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, Japan could not replace them. At sea, Japan built battleships when it needed more aircraft carriers. The Japanese military never even attempted to win World War II by a simple and direct plan. Its planners consistently assumed that the enemy would do precisely what they assumed and countenanced no alternative analyses of facts.

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Book SynopsisNot long after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II, the federal government rounded up more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent—both immigrants and native-born citizens—and began one of the most horrific mass-incarceration events in US history. The program tore apart Asian American communities, extracted families from their homes, and destroyed livelihoods as it forced Japanese Americans to various “relocation centers” around the country. Two of these concentration camps—the Jerome and Rohwer War Relocation Centers—operated in Arkansas. This book is a collection of brief memoirs written by former internees of Jerome and Rohwer and their close family members. Here dozens of individuals, almost all of whom are now in their eighties or nineties, share their personal accounts as well as photographs and other illustrations related to their life-changing experiences. The collection, likely to be one of the last of its kind, is the only work composed solely of autobiographical remembrances of life in Jerome and Rohwer, and one of the very few that gathers in a single volume the experiences of internees in their own words. What emerges is a vivid portrait of lives lived behind barbed wire, where inalienable rights were flouted and American values suspended to bring a misguided sense of security to a race-obsessed nation at war. However, in the barracks and the fields, the mess halls and the makeshift gathering places, values of perseverance, tolerance, and dignity—the gaman the internees shared—gave significance to a transformative experience that changed forever what it means to call oneself an American.Trade Review“This volume presents an intimate view of Japanese American incarceration in the South. It is a vital resource, preserving the voices and personal stories of the Imahara family and others who survived injustice at Rohwer and Jerome.”—Kimberly Guise, senior curator and director for curatorial affairs, the National WWII Museum, New Orleans “Collectively, these testimonies paint a vivid picture of life in the camps, and the individual stories are detailed, poignant, and often fascinating.”—S. Charles Bolton, Journal of Southern History, August 2023

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Book SynopsisToward the end of World War II, Hitler's many health complications became even more pronounced, making an evil man yet more erratic and dangerous. While the subject of Hitler's health has been catalogued previously, never has it been done so this thoroughly or with this level of up-to-date medical expertise.Tom Hutton's new neurobehavioral analysis of Adolf Hitler draws from a lifetime of medical research and clinical experience to understand how the dictator's particular medical history further warped a deformed personality and altered Hitler's decision making.Dr. Hutton trained under the world-renowned neuropsychologist and father of modern neuropsychological assessment, Dr. Alexander Luria, giving him a uniquely qualified eye to undertake this most difficult assessment.While many books on the subject thumb through the annals of popular psychology to understand history's most famous monsters, Dr. Hutton's latest book uses contemporary clinical knowledge, lucidly synthesizing medical complexities for all audiences.Here Dr. Hutton undertakes a thorough medical history to elucidate a pivotal historical moment, examining how disease impacted Hitler's destructive life.

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Book SynopsisThe author of the bestselling Darwin Spitfires casts a forensic eye over the role that Allied air forces played – or failed to play – in crucial World War II campaigns in New Guinea.This is the story of the early battles of the South West Pacific theatre – the Coral Sea, Kokoda, Milne Bay, Guadalcanal – presented as a single air campaign that began with the Japanese conquest of Rabaul in January 1942.It is a story of both Australian and American airmen who flew and fought in the face of adversity – with incomplete training, inadequate aircraft, and from poorly set up and exposed airfields. And they persisted despite extreme exhaustion, sickness, poor morale and the near certainty of being murdered by their Japanese captors if they went down in enemy territory.

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Book SynopsisThis riveting book follows a small group of Australian front-line soldiers from their enlistment in the dark days of 1940 to the end of World War II. No ordinary soldiers, they were members of Don Company of the Second 43rd Battalion, part of the famous 9th Australian Division, which during campaigns in Tobruk, El Alamein, New Guinea and Borneo sustained more casualties and won more medals than any other Australian division. It is an evocative and detailed account of the dayto-day war of three infantry soldiers whose experiences included night patrols at Tobruk, advancing steadily through German barrages at Alamein, charging enemy machine guns in New Guinea, and repelling Japanese charges on Borneo. Inspired by American historian Stephen Ambrose’s landmark book, Band of Brothers, about the US Army’s Easy Company of the 506th Regiment, Mark Johnston, one of our best military historians, here gives an Australian company the same treatment. Using the frank and detailed personal letters, diaries and memoirs of three Australian soldiers, he brings to life their campaigns, battles and interactions with their comrades and enemies. His book is a unique and powerful account of the everyday experiences of a small unit of soldiers on the front line.Trade Review‘A magnificent achievement from our premier historian of Australian soldiers in WWII. This is superb storytelling.’ - Professor Peter Stanley

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Book SynopsisTom ‘Diver’ Derrick VC DCM was Australia’s most famous fighting soldier of World War II. Derrick fought in five campaigns, won the highest medals for bravery, and died of wounds sustained while leading his men in the war’s last stages. His career reached its climax on the jungle-clad heights of Sattelberg in New Guinea, where he won the Victoria Cross by spearheading the capture of seemingly impregnable Japanese defences. The diaries Derrick kept throughout his campaigns, from Tobruk to Tarakan, are among the most important writings by any Australian soldier. Those diaries and all his other known wartime correspondence and interviews are published here for the first time in their entirety. ‘Diver’ had only a rudimentary education, but his intelligence, humour, ambition and fighting outlook shine through his words. Edited and annotated by Mark Johnston, one of Australia’s leading authorities on World War II, this book provides unprecedented insights into the mind and the remarkable career of one of Australia’s most decorated and renowned servicemen.

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Book SynopsisTwo Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in the Allied victory in the Second World War. Almost eight decades later, Wizards of Oz finally tells their story.In this fast-paced and compelling book, Brett Mason reveals how two childhood friends from Adelaide – physicist Mark Oliphant and medical researcher Howard Florey – initiated the three most significant scientific and industrial projects of the Second World War. Manufacturing penicillin, developing microwave radar and building the atomic bomb gave the Allies the edge and ultimate victory over Germany and Japan.More than just a story of scientific discovery, Wizards of Oz tells a remarkable tale of secret missions, international intrigue and triumph against all odds. Mason tells how Oliphant and Florey were also instrumental in convincing a reluctant United States to develop and deploy these three breakthrough inventions in time to change the course of the war. The two Australians not only helped win the war but shaped the peace, with their war-time contributions continuing to influence international politics and the health and wealth of nations.Oliphant and Florey emerge in Wizards of Oz as the two most consequential Australians of the Second World War – perhaps of all time.

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Book SynopsisThe incredible story of an Australian hero who helped save the life of a future president.On a moonless night in August 1943, a US torpedo boat commanded by Lt John F Kennedy, on patrol in Solomon Islands, was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. Left clinging to wreckage within sight of Japanese encampments, the eleven surviving members of Kennedy's crew eventually struggled ashore on a small uninhabited island. Missing, presumed dead, behind enemy lines, with no food or water, and with several injured, the future looked bleak for the shipwrecked Americans. Fortunately, Australian 'coast watcher' Lt Reg Evans witnessed the immediate aftermath of the collision from his nearby jungle hideaway. Working under the searching eye of the Japanese military, over the next five days Evans and two Solomon Islander scouts — Eroni Kumana and Biuku Gasa — located Kennedy and his crew and ensured their rescue.This story of wartime bravery and survival helped create JFK's legend and paved his way to the White House. It also shone a spotlight on Australia and America's shared wartime experience. In Saving Lieutenant Kennedy, Brett Mason, author of Wizards of Oz, sets the heroic rescue and its colourful aftermath against the background of the Pacific war and the birth of the Australia–US alliance, which remains as vital today as when Kennedy and Evans first shook hands.

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Book SynopsisIn December 1943, five courageous correspondents join a British air raid on Berlin. They are Australians, Alf King from the Sydney Morning Herald and Norm Stockton from the Sydney Sun; Americans, Ed Murrow from CBS and Lowell Bennett from the International News Service; and Norwegian journalist and activist, Nordahl Grieg. Each is assigned to one of the 400 Lancaster bombers that fly into the hazardous skies over Germany on a single night. Of the five, only two land back at base to file their stories.After parachuting out of his doomed aircraft, one reporter is taken prisoner. From there his captors take him on a remarkable tour of bombed-out German cities.In Dispatch from Berlin, 1943, Anthony Cooper and Thorsten Perl uncover this incredible true story of life on both sides of the war.Trade ReviewAn extraordinary tale of five brave reporters and their eyewitness accounts of the horrors of aerial warfare during and after a raid on Berlin. A compelling tribute to the 57 205 young men killed while serving with bomber command during the Second World War." —Ian McPhedran"This book captures the life and death drama that saw five war correspondents, two of them Australian, assigned to RAF Bomber Command to report on the most dangerous campaign of the Second World War — bombing Berlin. Neither they nor the crew knew if they would survive the night. A compelling story of a single raid that has remained untold for too long." —Peter Rees"A deep, intimate and remarkable story — indeed, a rare personal window into the huge and devastating machinery of the air war over Europe during World War Two. The trials and tribulations of five intrepid journalists is an exciting tale in its own right, but it simultaneously gives a unique keyhole with which to view the tenure and drama of the era. Well-written and equally well-researched, this book is a gem for those with even a passing interest in military history of the Second World War, and scholars of the field alike." —Craig Stockings"Dispatch from Berlin, 1943 takes you on a heart-stopping bombing raid over enemy territory as brave allied air crew battle flak, fighters and fate. Told through the eyes of five brave journalists who went with them, this is a remarkable book about the horror and humanity of war." —Mark Willacy

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Book SynopsisIn 1932, Isay Rottenberg, a Jewish paper merchant, bought a cigar factory in Germany: Deutsche Zigarren-Werke. When his competitors, supported by Nazi authorities, tried to shut it down, the headstrong entrepreneur refused to give up the fight.Isay Rottenberg was born into a large Jewish family in Russian Poland in 1889 and grew up in Lodz. He left for Berlin at the age of eighteen to escape military service, moving again in 1917 to Amsterdam on the occasion of his marriage. In 1932 he moved to Germany to take over a bankrupt cigar factory. With newfangled American technology, it was the most modern at the time. The energetic and ambitious Rottenberg was certain he could bring it back to life, and with newly hired staff of 670 workers, the cigar factory was soon back in business.Six months later, Hitler came to power and the Nazi government forbade the use of machines in the cigar industry so that traditional hand-rollers could be re-employed. That was when the real struggle began. More than six hundred qualified machine workers and engineers would lose their jobs if the factory had to close down. Supported by the local authorities he managed to keep the factory going, but in 1935 he was imprisoned following accusations of fraud. The factory was expropriated by the Deutsche Bank. When he was released six months later thanks to the efforts of the Dutch consul, he brought a lawsuit of his own. His fight for rehabilitation and restitution of his property would continue until Kristallnacht in 1938.The Cigar Factory of Isay Rottenberg is written by two of Rottenberg's granddaughters, who knew little of their grandfather's past growing up in Amsterdam until a call for claims for stolen or confiscated property started them on a journey of discovery.Table of Contents 1. Isay Rottenberg 2. Döbeln Junction 3. Merchant from Amsterdam 4. Krenter’s Rise and Fall 5. The Nazis in Power 6. The Machine Ban 7. A Complaint Filed with the Gestapo 8. German virtue 9. Arbeit und Brot 10. The Workers Reined In 11. Sword and Lightning 12. Münchner Platz 13. Undauntable 14. And then, War DZW under new ownership Sources and bibliography Photo credits List of persons Glossary of terms and abbreviations Family tree Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisIn May 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen who were members of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young Maori sailor, and his friends arrived in Singapore under siege. Playing to their strengths as small boat sailors, they manned fast motor launches, raiding and rescuing Allies from behind enemy lines. On the night of 13 February 1942, the eve of the fall of Singapore, they took two Fairmiles, ML310 and ML311, to evacuate members of the Allied High Command and survivors of sinking vessels. Hunted down by the Japanese, most of the almost one hundred men perished. Some became POWs, and of those who attempted to escape, only three succeeded: Leonard Hill, Herbert 'Johnny' Bull and Andrew Brough. This is the story of how they evaded the Japanese and survived.Table of ContentsA Place Desired by Many 1, Somewhere Else 13, Heat 35, Blows against Empire 77, Rising Storm 107, We Will Give You Swords 125, Bangka 155, Marooned 175, Hope 195, Desperate Voyage 209, Java 233, Tjilatjap 257, Verspijk 273, Return to Eden 287, Epilogue 297, Afterword 305, Appendix 1: Crew and Passengers - ML310 309, Appendix 2: Photographs, Acknowledgements 319, Index 325

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Book SynopsisExamines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front" during the Second World War, including issues such as how people coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other colonial territory, neglecting the fact that Britain controlled a large Empire and that there were numerous "home fronts", each of which contributed greatly to the war effort but each in slightly different ways. This book considers "home fronts" from an overall imperial perspective and in a broad array of territories - Australia, India, South Africa, Ceylon, Palestine and Kenya aswell as Britain. It examines many aspects of wartime life - food, communications, bombing, volunteering, internment and more, and discusses important themes including identity, gender, inequality, and the relationship between civilians and the state. Besides case studies outlining the detail of the situation in different territories and in different areas of life, the book assesses "home fronts" across the Empire in a comprehensive way, setting the case studies in their wider context, and placing the subject in, and advancing, the historiography. MARK J. CROWLEY is Associate Professor of History at Wuhan University, China. SANDRA TRUDGEN DAWSON is an Instructor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. Contributors: NUPUR CHAUDHURI, MARK J. CROWLEY, SANDRA TRUDGEN DAWSON, NADJA DURBACH, ASHLEY JACKSON, RITIKA PRASAD, LINSEY ROBB, SHERENE SEIKALY, JEAN SMITH,ANDREW STEWART, PETER THORSHEIM, CHRISTINE WINTERTrade ReviewOne of the real strengths of this collection . . . is the fine-grained detail and personal stories that enrich the individual contributions. Overall, this is a well-executed collective effort, with detailed references and a comprehensive bibliography that will further enhance its utility. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY *Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Home Fronts and the Empire at War - and British Restaurants and the Gender Politics of the Wartime Midday Meal - Nadja Durbach A Nutritional Economy: The Calorie, Development, and War in Mandate Palestine - Sherene Seikaly Rubber Shortages on Britain's Home Front - Nation-Building and Nationalism in Bengali Children's Literature during the 1940s and 1950s - Nupur Chaudhuri 'Young blood' and 'the blackout': Love, Sex and Marriage on the South African Home Front - Jean Smith Ceylon's Home Front during the Second World War - Ashley Jackson Nyanza at War: Kenya and the Mobilisation of Britain's Colonial Empire - Andrew Stewart 'Fighting In Their Ways'? The Civilian Man in British Culture, 1939-1945 - Linsey Robb 'The Royal Mail will always get through' - Maintaining Communications on the Home and Military Front during the Second World War - 'National Necessity' and 'Patriotic Duty': Railway Publicity in World War II India - Ritika Prasad Removing Danger from the Home Front in Australia - Christine Winter Bombs and Recycling Drives: The Double Threat to Books and Documents in Wartime Britain - Peter Thorsheim Select Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExamines the reputation of the Hungarian musician Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero. This book examines the reputation of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero and beacon of freedom. Following Bartok's reception in Italy from the early twentieth century, through Mussolini's fascist regime, and into the early Cold War, Palazzetti explores the connexions between music, politics and diplomacy. The wider context of this study also offers glimpses into broader themes such as fascist cultural policies, cultural resistance, and the ambivalent political usage of modernist music. The book argues that the 'Bartókian Wave' occurring in Italy after the Second World War was the result of the fusion of the Bartók myth as the 'musician of freedom' and the Cold War narrative of an Italian national regeneration. Italian-Hungarian diplomatic cooperation during the interwar period had supported Bartok's success in Italy. But, in spite of their political alliance, the cultural policies by Europe's leading fascist regimes started to diverge over the years: many composers proscribed in Nazi Germany were increasingly performed in fascist Italy. In the early 1940s, the now exiled composer came to represent one of the symbols of the anti-Nazi cultural resistance in Italy and was canonised as 'the musician of freedom'. Exile and death had transformed Bartók into a martyr, just as the Resistenza and the catastrophe of war had redeemed post-war Italy.Trade ReviewPalazzetti takes up [an] important and ground-breaking study of Bartók in Italy. [...]. Exploring the roots of [Bartók's] canonization - the myth-making referred to in the book's subtitle - and its multiple political purposes, Palazzetti follows the trajectory of the composer's experiences and the popularity of his music before, during and after the fascist ventennio. [...]. The meticulously researched list of performances of Bartók's music from the very first, in 1911, to the end of 1950 is an invaluable resource, and reveals how often some of the most demanding works were played. [...]. The situation is one of condensed complexity, and Palazzetti is an excellent guide through its tangled paths. -- Kenneth Chalmers * OPERA *True to the ethos of contemporary musicology, Palazzetti worries away at the parallelisms between the work of composers and the lives lived within cultures [...]. The very particular specifics of Palazzetti's material, so thoroughly researched and referenced in this book, raise many resonances, already debated by [...] Bartók scholars [...], as well as authors concentrating on Cold War cultural studies. -- Arnold Whittall * THE MUSICAL TIMES *A well-researched study of how politics can try to hijack music. -- Susan Pierotti * Stringendo, Journal of the Australian Strings Association *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Bartók in Liberal Italy, 1911-1925 Chapter 2: Heroism and Silence: Bartók in Mussolini's Italy, 1925-1938 Chapter 3: Resistance and Dictatorship, 1939-1942 Chapter 4: Resistance and Democracy, 1943-1947 Chapter 5: Bartók's Legacy in a Divided World, 1948-1956 Chapter 6: Bartók's Influence on Italian Composers Conclusion: Bartók and the Memory of the Twentieth Century Bibliography Appendix: Performances of Bartók's Works in Italy between 1911 and 1950 Index

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Book SynopsisProvides a forceful corrective to the idea that Britain 'stood alone' until the invasion of the Soviet Union and the attack on Pearl Harbor brought about 'the Grand Alliance'. Based on extensive archival research, the book demonstrates that 1939 to 1941 was a period of intensive diplomatic activity by the British Foreign Office designed to ensure that Britain's potential enemies, especially Soviet Russia, Italy and Japan, remained neutral and that its most desirable potential ally, the United States, remained as friendly as possible until it could be persuaded to join in the conflict. The book highlights the importance of diplomacy towards neutrals for British policy, considers the complexities of the situation, tying together issues such as blockade and the disposition of British forces in various theatres, explores decision making within the British government, examining how the diplomatic considerations of the Foreign Office played into wider debates amongst ministers and senior civil servants, and discusses the various courses towards neutrals, including alternatives, advocated within the Foreign Office. Overall, the book provides a rich, highly nuanced view of British policy in this crucial period.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments (T.G. Otte) List of Abbreviations Introduction: Keith Neilson and Modern International History (T.G. Otte) Chapter 1:On the Eve of War: January to September 1939 Chapter 2:The Baltic, Blockade and Soviet Russia: September 1939 - June 1940 Chapter 3:Defending the Mediterranean: Italy, Russia and the Balkans Chapter 4: Defending Britain and the Far East: The United States, Japan and Soviet Russia, September 1939-June 1940 Chapter 5: 'Nothing for nothing': From the Fall of France to Operation Barbarossa: July 1940 - June 1941 Epilogue (T.G. Otte) Appendix I: Members of the American, Central, Eastern, Far Eastern, Northern and Southern Departments, 1939-1941 Appendix II: Dramatis Personae Appendix III: Keith Neilson, List of Publications Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThree defining elements of the collective wartime experience deserve full scrutiny: the challenges of building and maintaining coalitions and alliances; the paramount importance of defending the British mainland and its population; and the central role the African continent assumed in all British strategic planning. An introductory essay sets out how the British wartime experience was underpinned by these critical elements. Topics addressed include 1940 and the Defence of Britain; relations with the United States; the British Empire Air Training Plan; General Boy Browning and Operation Market Garden; the recall of General Alan Cunningham from Libya in 1941; plans for defending the Royal Family; Exercise Genesis, which turned west London into a battleground for a day in May 1942; and the role of the Eastern Fleet off Africa. Andrew Stewart provides a compelling chapter on the loss of the Tobruk garrison in June 1942 -- one of the worst military disasters suffered by the British Empire during the Second World War. The essay on Tobruk demonstrates how all three defining elements of wartime experience converged: the loss of public confidence about how the war was being conducted; its impact on the relationship with the Union of South Africa, a key partner in the Dominion wartime coalition; and the absolute necessity that existed for deep strategic planning on the African continent -- subsequently to be realized at the final battle at El Alamein.

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Book SynopsisA book about bitter fates—both already known and yet to unfold—and the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspective—“calibrated”—against this historical monstrosity. Kluge’s newest work is a book about bitter fates, both already known and yet to unfold. Above all, it is about the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people. These forty-eight stories of justice and injustice are dedicated to the memory of Fritz Bauer, a determined fighter for justice and district attorney of Hesse during the Auschwitz Trials. “The moment they come into existence, monstrous crimes have a unique ability,” Bauer once said, “to ensure their own repetition.” Kluge takes heed, and in these pages reminds us of the importance of keeping our powers of observation and memory razor sharp. Trade Review"A short collection of anecdotes, very short forays, and observations, one that highlights the atrocities of the Holocaust but at the same time highlights how we continue to ignore the warning signs, has history taught humans anything? A collection that reads like forty-eight scraps for potential further investigation by Fritz Bauer." * Messenger's Booker *Table of ContentsN

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Book SynopsisDuring August 1942 several women jumped to their deaths from a second story window at the tile factory in the small town of Milles near Aix-en-Provence. Between 1939 and 1942 the factory assumed various roles as internment camp, transit camp and ultimately deportation camp. This book is about the view from the ‘suicide window’ as it is presented within the Camp des Milles memorial museum which opened in 2012. It explores how this view might help us to understand and imagine the world of internment and deportation camps operating in France during the Second World War and their memorial today. The book uses the views framed by the window to think critically about the museography of the memorial within the wider context of France’s relatively late acknowledgment of its role in the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War.Trade Review“The author’s ability to locate often unforeseen comparisons with other historical contexts, objects and realities makes for a narrative full of surprising twists and turns that can enrich an otherwise intense, densely packed narrative account.” - Richard J. GolsanTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of illustrationsPrefaceIntroduction. This is not a CampChapter One. Window FrameChapter Two. TricoloreChapter Three. WagonChapter Four. LandscapeChapter Five. SkyConclusion. Recollections of a viewBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the role of Christianity in British statecraft, politics, media, the armed forces and in the education and socialization of the young during the Second World War. This volume presents a major reappraisal of the role of Christianity in Great Britain between 1939 and 1945, examining the influence of Christianity on British society, statecraft, politics, the media, the armed forces, and on the education and socialization of the young. Its chapters address themes such as the spiritual mobilization of nation and empire; the limitations of Mass Observation's commentary on wartime religious life; Catholic responses to strategic bombing; servicemen and the dilemma of killing; the development of Christian-Jewish relations, and the predicament of British military chaplains in Germany in the summer of 1945. By demonstrating the enduring -even renewed- importance of Christianity in British national life, British Christianity and the Second World War also sets the scene for some major post-war developments. Though the war years triggered a 'resacralization' of British society and culture, inherent racism meant that the exalted self-image of Christian Britain proved sadly deceptive for post-war immigrants from the Caribbean. Wartime confidence in the prospective role of the state in religious education soon transpired to be ill-founded, while the profound upheavals of war -and even the bromides of 'BBC Religion'- were, in the longer term, corrosive of conventional religious practice and traditional denominational loyalties. This volume will be of interest to historians of British society and the Second World War, twentieth-century British religion, and the perennial interplay of religion and conflict.Table of Contents1 Introduction - Michael Snape 2 The British State and Spiritual Mobilization during the Second World War - Philip Williamson 3 Radio Religion: The British Broadcasting Corporation and Faith Propaganda at 'Home' and 'Overseas' in the Second World War - Hannah Elias 4 Getting the Message Out: Publishing 'British Christianity' 1939-1943 - Keith Robbins, completed by Stuart Bell 5 Christianity, Culture, and the Universities in Wartime England - Matthew Grimley 6 Mass Observation, Religion, and the Second World War: When 'Cooper's Snoopers' Caught the Spirit - Clive D. Field 7 British Sunday Schools during the Second World War - Caitriona McCartney 8 Principled or Pragmatic? English Nonconformist Opposition to Pacifism in the Inter-War Period - Stuart Bell 9 Where Loyalties Lie: English Catholic Responses to Allied Strategic Bombing in the Second World War - Joshua Madrid 10 British Christians and the Morality of Killing in the Second World War - John Broom 11 Jewish­-Christian Relations in the Second World War - Jonathan M. Lewis 12 Agents of Occupation or Reconciliation? Army Chaplains in Germany in the Summer of 1945 - Peter Howson Index

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Book SynopsisThe conflict in the skies above the combat zones of World War II bred a new legion of heroes. They were all brave men, but some have become legends. This is a compact reference to the history and record of allied and enemy aces of World War II.

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Book SynopsisAn authoritative and timely book shedding new light on the role of religion during World War II and its impact on post-war American society. America's armed forces played a critical part in the defeat of Hitler's Germany and made by far the biggest contribution to the Allied defeat of Japan. In the US, military veterans of World War II are widely revered as the foremost representatives of 'the greatest generation', a generation that vanquished fascism in Europe and the Far East, faced down the threat of communism during the Cold War, and achieved unprecedented levels of prosperity and social mobility in their own society. Elsewhere, America's service men and women are often remembered more ambivalently for their material abundance, their hedonism, and even their rapacity. God and Uncle Sam shows that bothperspectives are problematic: America's armed forces were the products of one of the most diverse and dynamic religious cultures in the western world and were the largest ever to be raised by a professedly religious society. Despite constitutional constraints, a pre-war 'religious depression', and the myriad pitfalls of war, religion played a crucial role in helping more than sixteen million uniformed Americans through the ordeal of World War II, a fact that had profound and far-reaching implications for the religious development of post-war America. This timely and authoritative book draws on meticulous research in US archives and is informed by contemporary films, photographs, posters, and sound recordings. MICHAEL SNAPE is Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University.Trade Review2015 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title * . *It is beyond question that crisis will often act as a catalyst to promote a shift in the religious beliefs and practices of the average individual. In his impressive work, God and Uncle Sam, Michael Snape argues for the same phenomenon more broadly for American Society. x * TLS *Michael Snape has written an absolutely comprehensive, historically accurate, and well-researched account of the role of religion for the men and women of our Armes Forces during World War II. . . . This is a book worth having in your library. * CONCORDIA HISTORICAL INSTITUTE QUARTERLY *A superlative study...potentially opening up a new field in military studies while simultaneously adding a new chapter to the field of religious studies....[A] meticulously researched and well written book on a complex subject; all in all an exemplary work of narrative history. * POLISH JOURNAL FOR AMERICAN STUDIES *Snape has written a massive and thorough study on the role that religion played in the US armed services during WW II. . . . [T]his book challenges thinking not only about the US experience in WW II but also about the relationship between religion and civic life. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *This work belongs on the bookshelf of any historian who focuses on American religion in the twentieth century. For military historians, Snape has performed an invaluable service, especially for those who seek to gain a better understanding of the social history of the American combatant. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A treasure trove of information. * THE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW. *A significant contribution to the study of a unique period in the religious life of a nation.. [It] also makes an important contribution to the understanding of what makes modern America. * METHODIST RECORDER *This is a landmark study that will be the standard for years to come and a foundational piece for subsequent specialized studies of religion and the Second World War. * CERCLES *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chaplains and Chaplaincy Religion and American Military Culture The Faithful in Arms Foxhole Religion and Wartime Faith Global Encounters Religion, War and Morality Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is a groundbreaking English-language examination of the final period of Nazi rule in Germany's eastern provinces at the end of the Second World War. It outlines the wartime role of this region and assesses the impact of Nazi 'popular mobilisation' initiatives during the closing months of the conflict. Major projects such as the preparation of the Ostwall defences and the raising of the Volkssturm (Home Guard) are examined in depth. The book concludes by weighing up the importance of propaganda and coercion to the Nazi regime as it attempted to prolong its existence in the face of crushing military defeats. "The Darkest Hour" incorporates a unique synthesis of archival and printed source material from the English-speaking world, Germany, Poland and Russia. The eastern German Nazi leadership, their crimes and their corruption, are covered collectively to a greater extent in this book than in any English-language account hitherto. As the Third Reich was on the brink of defeat, its leader and lackeys wielded life or death powers and were loathed by the civilian population as much as the advancing Soviets were feared. This extensive account of this important historical period and circumstance is essential reading for all scholars and students of the Third Reich and European military history.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Come the Gauleiters, 1933-1939; An Oasis of Tranquillity? The German East, 1939-1944; Enjoy the War, the Peace Will be Dire; A Deep Anxiety over the Fate of East Prussia; A Unique, Improvised Exertion: Ostwallbau 1944; Confronting Catastrophe: The October Invasion of East Prussia and the Launch of the Volkssturm; A Stay of Execution; The Deluge; Our Brave Fortresses in the East; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis is a groundbreaking English-language examination of the final period of Nazi rule in Germany's eastern provinces at the end of the Second World War. It outlines the wartime role of this region and assesses the impact of Nazi 'popular mobilisation' initiatives during the closing months of the conflict. Major projects such as the preparation of the Ostwall defences and the raising of the Volkssturm (Home Guard) are examined in depth. The book concludes by weighing up the importance of propaganda and coercion to the Nazi regime as it attempted to prolong its existence in the face of crushing military defeats. "The Darkest Hour" incorporates a unique synthesis of archival and printed source material from the English-speaking world, Germany, Poland and Russia. The eastern German Nazi leadership, their crimes and their corruption, are covered collectively to a greater extent in this book than in any English-language account hitherto. As the Third Reich was on the brink of defeat, its leader and lackeys wielded life or death powers and were loathed by the civilian population as much as the advancing Soviets were feared. This extensive account of this important historical period and circumstance is essential reading for all scholars and students of the Third Reich and European military history.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Come the Gauleiters, 1933-1939; An Oasis of Tranquillity? The German East, 1939-1944; Enjoy the War, the Peace Will be Dire; A Deep Anxiety over the Fate of East Prussia; A Unique, Improvised Exertion: Ostwallbau 1944; Confronting Catastrophe: The October Invasion of East Prussia and the Launch of the Volkssturm; A Stay of Execution; The Deluge; Our Brave Fortresses in the East; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisIn terms of the Second World War and Britain's wartime strategy three elements deserve close scrutiny: the paramount importance of defending the British mainland and its population; the challenges of building and maintaining coalitions and alliances; and the central role the African continent assumed in all British strategic planning. A concluding essay reflects upon the degree to which in the face of an often uncertain and unconvincing approach these critical themes underpinned the British experience of the conflict. Topics addressed include 1940 and the Defence of Britain; relations with the United States; the British Empire Air Training Plan; General (Boy) Browning and Operation Market Garden; the recall of General Alan Cunningham from Libya in 1941; plans for defending the Royal Family; Exercise Genesis, which turned west London into a battleground for a day in May 1942; and the role of the Eastern Fleet off Africa. Andrew Stewart provides a compelling chapter on the loss of the Tobruk garrison in June 1942 -- one of the worst military disasters suffered by the British Empire during the Second World War. The essay on Tobruk demonstrates how all three defining elements of wartime experience converged: the loss of public confidence about how the war was being conducted; its impact on the relationship with the Union of South Africa, a key partner in the Dominion wartime coalition; and the absolute necessity that existed for deep strategic planning on the African continent -- subsequently to be realised at the final battle at El Alamein.

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Book SynopsisIn the fall of 1938, following Kristallnacht, the symphonic orchestra in Palestine cancelled the performance of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. No one could foresee that this would be the beginning of a never-ending boycott. The boycott began in a society struggling for its existence and collective identity; it continues in a well-established culture that maintains close ties with Germany and German culture, when numerous Israeli institutions are involved in commemorating the Holocaust. At present Wagner is known in Israel mainly as a symbol of the Holocaust. From the late twentieth-century Wagner is the only composer who aroused strong opposition when attempts were made to publicly play his music. Analysis of this controversy sheds light on the changes that have taken place in Israel -- from a pioneering to a traditional society, and from a socialist to a capitalistic one. In the Wagner Year "The Ring of Myths" appears in a revised edition, including interpretations from new perspectives on the place of the Holocaust in Israeli society and the processes of change until 2012.

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Book SynopsisDuring the darkest days of the Second World War a select group of people gathered together in Mayfair to listen to a series of secret lectures organised by the Royal Central Asian Society (now the Royal Society for Asian Affairs). Lecturers and their hand-picked audience examined fast-moving events in the Middle East, Persia and Russia with the intention to propose strategies for Britain's post-war international role. The lecturers were chosen for their inside knowledge of these countries: a British General who had visited Russia's front-line held against the German invasion; an RAF officer who was in Iraq during the pro-German coup by Rashid Ali, and the subsequent defence of the Habbaniya air base; a Persian-speaking British diplomat stationed in Teheran; a Mancunian of Lebanese descent who spoke frankly about Arab hopes and fears; a Home Officer advisor sent to Moscow to inspect its fire-watching arrangements; and a Polish countess forcibly transported to a collective farm in Siberia, among others. Secrecy surrounded these lectures many of the scripts were marked 'Secret' or 'Confidential'; they were not published in the Society's Journal, and the audience was warned not to reveal the topics discussed outside the Clarges Street premises. The discussions which followed the lectures were held in the knowledge that frank views could be freely expressed, and are included in this volume. Although so much has changed in the international arena, these seventy-year old lectures, only recently rediscovered in the Society's Archives, have a peculiar poignancy and relevance in understanding today's unquiet Middle East and how war-time events and strategies were to shape post-war policy with regard to Arab nationalism and Arab unity.

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Book SynopsisOperation Diver is the story of a battle: its action, people, landscapes, and remains. The battle was Anti-Aircraft Command’s attempt to defeat the V1 flying-bomb, the first of Nazi Germany’s `retribution’ weapons, whose attacks dominated the home front in the final year of the Second World War. Beginning in the week of D-Day, the flying bomb battle lasted for nine months. In that time the men and women of AA Command became a massed, mobile army, shifting a vast carpet of guns to meet the V1’s changing lines of attack. Beginning in Kent and Sussex, their journey took in the Thames Estuary, East Anglia and eventually the Yorkshire coast. Along with the RAF’s fighter aircraft and the larger air defence system, their mission was to prevent a single flying bomb from reaching London, or any other British city. The battle was won; but not before many technical and human obstacles were overcome. Published to mark the 75th anniversary of the flying bomb campaign, Operation Diver is also an essay in landscape history, and shows for the first time in detail how hundreds of guns and thousands of gunners were deployed across the fields and farms of Britain, from the south-east to Flamborough Head. Published with a full gazetteer of gunsite positions, it also documents Historic England’s work in assessing the survival of Operation Diver’s fragmentary remains. Table of ContentsPart I: On the Horizon 1. Signs and signals 2. Cherry Stone 3. Squaring up 4. Crossbow 5. Overlord Part II: Eighty Days 6. `A complete and sudden dive’ 7. Orchard fields 8. Realities 9. Diver shuffle 10. Light blue world 11. Conflicts 12. Decisions 13. Clear horizons 14. Getting to grips 15. Beside the sea 16. `Only one goal’ 17. End of term Part III: Diver East 18. Night Heinkels 19. `Not without toil’ 20. Winter 21. Diver north Part IV: Afterwards 22. `The brightening years ahead’ 23. No abiding city

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Book SynopsisIn the long and absorbing history of Britain's railways and the men and women who have worked on them, the most challenging years were those of the two world wars. Neither of these wars could have been won without the railways. Transportation of everything that was grown, made or mined, as well as soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians was largely the task of the railways. Yet the contribution of railways, and railway men and women in wartime has often been overlooked. This book pays tribute to the way the railways and their staff responded to the demand that they do more with fewer resources. They were called upon to cope with the extraordinary change in the character and volume of passenger and goods traffic, to endure dangerously long hours, and to overcome fear. Small wayside stations could be transformed into a frenzy of activity by the location of a camp or supply depot on its doorstep. Disruption through bomb damage could turn the shift of locomotive crew or guard into an indefinite wait for relief. The railway companies built many and various memorials to honour their fallen workers - these monuments, created and designed by high-calibre sculptors and architects, are included within the book's gazetteer. The book inevitably includes many statistics as well as dates, but it is impossible to comprehend the magnitude of the railway's contribution to the wars without them. The focus is on the railways of Britain, but sketches of the overseas theatres give some idea of the work of railway construction and operating companies, which were largely made up of railwaymen.Trade ReviewReviews'Books about the railways' work in the World Wars usually deal with just one of them: this covers both, yet it encompasses remarkable detail [...] Despite this volume's relatively small size, it conveys brilliantly the sacrifices made by our railways in text and well-chosen illustrations: warmly recommended.' Philip Scowcroft, Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical SocietyTable of ContentsTo follow

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Book SynopsisEugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, was one of the few unalloyed heroes of World War II. At great Personal risk, he saved some 800,000 Jews from extermination by the Nazis. Jewish refugees were given asylum in the Vatican, swelling the number of Swiss Guards. No allied leader can match his glorious record. Glolda Meir lauded Pius XII after the war, and the chief rabbi of Rome became a Roman Catholic, taking the name of Eugenio in tribute to Eugenio Pacelli. Why then has such a man been vilified and all but accused of being responsible for the Holocaust? Rolf Hochhuth's infamous play, 'The Deputy', marked the turning point. The outrageous distortions of this play turned the greatest friend the Jewish people had during World War II into an anti-Semite. This book restores Pius XII to the rank of hero, demolishes the ludicrous charges against him, and identifies the true target of this infamous calumny: the Church, the papacy, and the Christian moral teaching which confronts and condemns the Culture of Death.

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Book SynopsisA vivid picture of wartime Lincolnshire, and an engagingly readable account of the life of a busy parish priest. Arthur Hopkins arrived in the Lincolnshire town of Boston in November 1942 to take up the post of Vicar of St Thomas's Church in the working-class parish of Skirbeck Quarter. He was already writing almost daily instalments of a diary for the social research organisation, Mass Observation. Generously conceived, it is written almost as if it were a series of letters to a friend abroad, providing descriptions and comments on everyday life in wartime. Little was beneath his notice. This was a man who had attended university with the King after the Great War and had prominent relations, but was also egalitarian in his leanings and sympathetic to the "common people". His is the diary ofa thoughtful and perceptive individual who had a realistic sense of himself, his society, and the fragility of life; the engagingly readable entries reveal fascinating details of wartime Lincolnshire and the life of a busy parishpriest. The diary is edited here with introduction and notes. Patricia and Robert Malcolmson are social historians with a special interest in English diaries written between the 1930s and 1950s. They have edited for publication over a dozen of these diaries.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One: November 1942 - November 1943 Part Two: May 1944 - May 1945 Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis guidebook offers an introduction to the strategic, operational and tactical aspects of the Dieppe Raid and the Normandy campaign plus information on accommodation, museums, memorials and other points of interest. The battlefields of the Second World War have long played an important part in the collective memory and imagination of Canadians. This guide is intended to encourage a new generation to set out on their own journey not just to the iconic landing beaches, memorials and museums but to the villages and fields where young Canadians fought to free France from the yoke of Nazi tyranny.

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Book SynopsisIn the grand narrative of modern Chinese history, 1943 is usually passed over with little notice. Great attention has been paid to critical watersheds in Chinese history—the end of the empire in 1911, the outbreak of full-scale war with Japan in 1937, or the triumph of the Chinese Communist revolution in 1949. What can we learn if we focus attention on a less dramatic year? In 1943, in the middle of World War II, the Allies renounced the unequal treaties, Chiang Kai-shek wrote China's Destiny and met with Roosevelt and Churchill at Cairo, and Mme Chiang made her memorable trip to the United States. From the northwestern province of Xinjiang to the southern smuggling entrepot of Guangzhouwan, the stories of calculating politicians, suspected spies, starving peasants, downtrodden intellectuals, recalcitrant preachers, and star-crossed actors come together to illuminate the significance of this year for China as a whole. In thirteen topical chapters, both the achievements and the disappointments of 1943 are explored in an effort to capture a moment in time when China stood at a crossroads but the road ahead lay shrouded in the impenetrable fog of war.

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Book SynopsisPlanet Auschwitz explores the diverse ways in which the Holocaust influences and shapes science fiction and horror film and television by focusing on notable contributions from the last fifty years. The supernatural and extraterrestrial are rich and complex spaces with which to examine important Holocaust themes - trauma, guilt, grief, ideological fervor and perversion, industrialized killing, and the dangerous afterlife of Nazism after World War II. Planet Auschwitz explores why the Holocaust continues to set the standard for horror in the modern era and asks if the Holocaust is imaginable here on Earth, at least by those who perpetrated it, why not in a galaxy far, far away? The pervasive use of Holocaust imagery and plotlines in horror and science fiction reflects both our preoccupation with its enduring trauma and our persistent need to “work through” its many legacies.Planet Auschwitz website (https://planetauschwitz.com) Trade Review"A great text....original in scale and scope." -- Jonathan C. Friedman * author of The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen *Compelling and persuasively argued ... shows the extent to which Holocaust ideas and images have crept into popular horror and science fiction film and TV. -- Oren Baruch Stier * author of Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory *"In this deeply researched and insightful study, Crim lucidly reveals how the Nazi genocide has left an indelible and often unsettling mark on American popular culture." -- Gavriel Rosenfeld * author of Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture *"The industrialized murder of the Shoah, forever associated with concentration camps during World War II, was coined with the term Planet Auschwitz as another world, but is hardly imaginable for younger generations. Brian E. Crim explains astutely how the ripple effect of the Holocaust resonates in American popular culture, especially in the genres of Science Fiction and Horror. This book studies the imagery that persists in visual media but avoids the normalization of the genocide. It keeps the study of the Holocaust alive to guarantee that the “torrent of testimony” will not perish with the last witnesses." -- Karen A. Ritzenhoff * Co-editor of New Perspectives on the War Film *"History professor writes about life on ‘Planet Auschwitz’" https://www.lynchburg.edu/news/2020/04/history-professor-writes-about-life-on-planet-auschwitz/?fbclid=IwAR38ua3a_14Gehg9cY2D7Xi9JzHCfSyTFaUlARdIVemESFGuIsWId20uFQ0 * University of Lynchburg *"Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" interview with Brian Crim https://newbooksnetwork.com/brian-crim-planet-auschwitz-holocaust-representation-in-science-fiction-and-horror-film-and-television-rutgers-up-2020/ * New Books Network - New Books in German Studies *"Crim contributes to the scholarship exploring how the Holocaust has filtered down and across popular culture, leaving its trace in numerous ways. His focus is on how it has influenced and shaped science fiction and horror film and television over the past half-century but particularly over the past 20 years." * Times Higher Education *"Crim offers an engaging interdisciplinary consideration of the Holocaust in horror and science fiction. Across chapters, this book engages with many primary film and television sources [and] supplies an excellent resource for identifying media imprinted by the legacy of the Holocaust." * Journal of Popular Culture Review *"Crim provides a valuable contribution to Holocaust scholars by having us pay attention to metaphorical representations in works of horror and science fiction." * Central European History *"Planet Auschwitz ends on a strong note. The book’s deceptively simple premise –reading sf and horror for Holocaust metaphor –reveals its complex layers piece by piece as it goes on, showing how film and television reflect the enduring influence of the Holocaust in the psyche of Western society." * Science Fiction Film and Television *"His research is up-to-date and meticulous, demonstrating his long familiarity with the complexities and vicissitudes of modern German culture." * SFRA Review *"A great text....original in scale and scope." -- Jonathan C. Friedman * author of The History of Genocide in Cinema: Atrocities on Screen *Compelling and persuasively argued ... shows the extent to which Holocaust ideas and images have crept into popular horror and science fiction film and TV. -- Oren Baruch Stier * author of Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory *"In this deeply researched and insightful study, Crim lucidly reveals how the Nazi genocide has left an indelible and often unsettling mark on American popular culture." -- Gavriel Rosenfeld * author of Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture *"The industrialized murder of the Shoah, forever associated with concentration camps during World War II, was coined with the term Planet Auschwitz as another world, but is hardly imaginable for younger generations. Brian E. Crim explains astutely how the ripple effect of the Holocaust resonates in American popular culture, especially in the genres of Science Fiction and Horror. This book studies the imagery that persists in visual media but avoids the normalization of the genocide. It keeps the study of the Holocaust alive to guarantee that the “torrent of testimony” will not perish with the last witnesses." -- Karen A. Ritzenhoff * Co-editor of New Perspectives on the War Film *"History professor writes about life on ‘Planet Auschwitz’" https://www.lynchburg.edu/news/2020/04/history-professor-writes-about-life-on-planet-auschwitz/?fbclid=IwAR38ua3a_14Gehg9cY2D7Xi9JzHCfSyTFaUlARdIVemESFGuIsWId20uFQ0 * University of Lynchburg *"Planet Auschwitz: Holocaust Representation in Science Fiction and Horror Film and Television" interview with Brian Crim https://newbooksnetwork.com/brian-crim-planet-auschwitz-holocaust-representation-in-science-fiction-and-horror-film-and-television-rutgers-up-2020/ * New Books Network - New Books in German Studies *"Crim contributes to the scholarship exploring how the Holocaust has filtered down and across popular culture, leaving its trace in numerous ways. His focus is on how it has influenced and shaped science fiction and horror film and television over the past half-century but particularly over the past 20 years." * Times Higher Education *"Crim offers an engaging interdisciplinary consideration of the Holocaust in horror and science fiction. Across chapters, this book engages with many primary film and television sources [and] supplies an excellent resource for identifying media imprinted by the legacy of the Holocaust." * Journal of Popular Culture Review *"Crim provides a valuable contribution to Holocaust scholars by having us pay attention to metaphorical representations in works of horror and science fiction." * Central European History *"Planet Auschwitz ends on a strong note. The book’s deceptively simple premise –reading sf and horror for Holocaust metaphor –reveals its complex layers piece by piece as it goes on, showing how film and television reflect the enduring influence of the Holocaust in the psyche of Western society." * Science Fiction Film and Television *"His research is up-to-date and meticulous, demonstrating his long familiarity with the complexities and vicissitudes of modern German culture." * SFRA Review *Table of ContentsContents List of Images Introduction 1 From Muselmann to “Walker”: Holocaust Imagery in the Zombie Genre 2 Silent Screams: Representing Trauma and Grief in The Pawnbroker and The Leftovers 3 Nazi Monsters and the Return of History 4 The View from Hell: Demons, Antichrists and the Persistence of Evil after the Holocaust 5 “A World That Works”: Astrofascism Across Time and Space 6 “All of this has happened before”: Cyborgs, Humans, and the Question of Genocide Conclusion Acknowledgments Index

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Book SynopsisNobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer once described Dr. Leon Thorne’s memoir as a work of “bitter truth” that he compared favorably to the works of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Proust. Out of print for over forty years, this lost classic of Holocaust literature now reappears in a revised, annotated edition, including both Thorne’s original 1961 memoir Out of the Ashes: The Story of a Survivor and his previously unpublished accounts of his arduous postwar experiences in Germany and Poland. Rabbi Thorne composed his memoir under extraordinary conditions, confined to a small underground bunker below a Polish peasant’s pigsty. But, It Will Yet Be Heard is remarkable not only for the story of its composition, but also for its moral clarity and complexity. A deeply religious man, Rabbi Thorne bore witness to forced labor camps, human degradation, and the murders of entire communities. And once he emerged from hiding, he grappled not only with survivor’s guilt, but also with the lingering antisemitism and anti-Jewish violence in Poland even after the war ended. Harrowing, moving, and deeply insightful, Rabbi Thorne’s firsthand account offers a rediscovered perspective on the twentieth century’s greatest tragedy. Trade Review"[This] is a tremendous document of the Jewish Holocaust, written from someone who experienced the worst but came out intact, not only physically but also spiritually." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer * winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature *"This remarkable and moving autobiography, here published for the first time in full in English, gives a vivid and unsparing account of the miraculous survival of a young rabbi, from the oil town of Schodnica, near Drohobych, in Galicia, during the Nazi occupation and his travails in Poland after liberation. It is essential reading for all those interested in the history of the holocaust and of Polish-Jewish relations." -- Antony Polonsky * emeritus professor, Brandeis University and chief historian, Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw *"Leon Thorne has given us an important Holocaust memoir. His extensive Rabbinic and secular education allowed him to evaluate the larger historical and ethical aspects of the Jewish tragedy, whereas his uncommon narrative talent emerge in a wide range of fascinating individual stories. Never sentimental or self-pitying, Rabbi Thorne writes as both victim and witness. Of particular significance is the narration of the aftermath of the war. Thorne’s vivid account of the terrifying odyssey from devastated Poland to the American Zone sheds light on this little known chapter in the history of Jewish survivors." -- Rachel F. Brenner * Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin *"Leon Thorne’s fascinating and moving memoir—written in part during a year of hiding in a cellar and expanded not long after—recounts the experiences of an individual and several communities with a powerful abundance of detail. It Will Yet Be Heard is a major contribution to studies of the Holocaust and the immediate post-Holocaust era in Poland. Rutgers has done well to restore this document for a new generation of readers." -- Meri-Jane Rochelson * author of Eli's Story: A Twentieth-Century Jewish Life *"This book is at once a testament to the resurrection of the Holy Remnant in the State of Israel and a summons to its readers to engage in that testimony. Written in the masterful style of an accomplished storyteller, it will be an important addition to any library on the Holocaust and the Jewish people." * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *"Thorne’s memoir brings a vision of the Holocaust that (to a degree) has been suppressed. Few realize just how personal, local, intimate, and relational the Holocaust was in West Ukraine. Every death was someone’s sister, daughter, cousin, friend, and partner. The theory of Nazi killing as 'cogs in a machine' is disputed in every page....It Will Yet Be Heard adds an essential voice to what is now a pretty crowded genre, but its wisdom warrants remembering: the people involved knew one another and in many cases knew one another very well." * The Polish Review *Table of ContentsTable of Contents Epigraph Dedication Contents Introduction “Out of the Ashes” by Yitzhok Varshavski (Isaac Bashevis Singer), Forverts Newspaper, August 20, 1961 Author’s Preface Part I 1. The Cellar 2. Schodnica 3. Sambor 4. An Act of Defiance 5. The Storm 6. Janover Camp 7. Clean Rags for Dirty Ones 8. Even the Dead Are Not Immune 9. Escape to the Lemberg Ghetto 10. In the Ghetto 11. Black Thursday 12. Despair in the Jewish Quarter 13. The Poor Cannot Afford Suicide 14. The Situation of the Christians 15. In the Shadow of Death 16. The Executions 17. Last Days of the Sambor Ghetto 18. The Last Days of the Drohobycz Ghetto 19. The Camp 20. Hyrawka 21. Why There Was No Resistance 22. Naftali Backenroth 23. Beginning of the End Part II 1. August 1944 2. Can These Bones Live? 3. A Jewish Chaplain in the Polish Army 4. Breslau Revisited 5. Fishke, My Rescuer 6. A Rabbi at Work 7. No. 6 Tannenbaum Street 8. The Żydowica’s Story 9. My Farewell to Poland 10. Arrest in Dresden 11. Our Return to Poland 12. Breslau Again 13. The Story of Simon Becker 14. A Reunion Aboard a Train 15. A Narrow Escape 16. Our Second Exodus from Poland 17. We Go Free Afterword About the Contributors Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisIn Holocaust Graphic Narratives, Victoria Aarons demonstrates the range and fluidity of this richly figured genre. Employing memory as her controlling trope, Aarons analyzes the work of the graphic novelists and illustrators, making clear how they extend the traumatic narrative of the Holocaust into the present and, in doing so, give voice to survival in the wake of unrecoverable loss. In recreating moments of traumatic rupture, dislocation, and disequilibrium, these graphic narratives contribute to the evolving field of Holocaust representation and establish a new canon of visual memory. The intergenerational dialogue established by Aarons’ reading of these narratives speaks to the on-going obligation to bear witness to the Holocaust. Examined together, these intergenerational works bridge the erosions created by time and distance. As a genre of witnessing, these graphic stories, in retracing the traumatic tracks of memory, inscribe the weight of history on generations that follow. Trade Review"Aarons has made a significant contribution to the discourse surrounding graphic narratives dealing with the Shoah. Her discussion of the relationship between word and image is always enlightening...Aarons has offered her readers an intellectual road map with which to read the ever-increasing number of third- and—as the prophet Joel foretold—soon-to-be fourth-generation of Holocaust graphic narratives."— Shofar "Holocaust Graphic Narratives brims with shrewd perceptions, making a necessary case for the significance of this formerly marginalized medium in its grappling with the impossible task of remembrance."— Philip Roth Studies "Holocaust Graphic Narratives is a thoroughly engaging exploration of the history and memory, with applications far beyond comic studies. In what should become a commonly assigned and suggested text, Aarons opens the doors to new ways of approaching the act of bearing witness through graphic narratives."— Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics "[Aaron's] use of memory as a lens and her selection of contemporary graphic narratives make this an insightful and important exploration of the ways in which the medium of the graphic novel is ideally suited for examining the Holocaust and other such complex narratives. Highly recommended."— Choice This is the book that many of us have been waiting for. Aarons's brilliant book offers readers genuinely exciting theoretical and deeply revelatory close explorations of both image and language in a wide range of Holocaust graphic narratives. The author's critical insights into the profound intersectionality of modern Jewish identity, language, memory, modern midrash and testimony are dazzlingly sophisticated, her prose always lucid and appealing. This nuanced and pathbreaking study should be at the top of the list for anyone curious about how graphic artists explore their subjectivities in relation to the weight of painful history; Aarons provides a truly essential resource for classrooms and scholars of the Holocaust as well as intergenerational trauma and commemoration in a wide variety of contexts.— Ranen Omer-Sherman, author of Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature & Film "Holocaust Graphic Novels is a gem. The author is a master of her subject, discussing the many contributions made by graphic Holocaust novels with great erudition. In Aarons' intelligent and insightful readings, the caesura induced by the Shoah continues to send intergenerational psychological shock waves." — Alan Berger, author of Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust "Aarons shows how the graphic novel’s rich juxtapositions of text and image extends the monumental arc of the Holocaust’s photographic legacy from the immutable past into the subjective and ever-evolving present." — H-Net "Holocaust Graphic Narratives offers a brilliant analysis of central, representative works that have appeared in the wake of Spiegelman’s Maus and provides a vital way for us to re-envision the landscape of post-Holocaust testimony."— Eric Sundquist, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust AmericaTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Visual Testimonies of Memory 1 The Performance of Memory: Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own, A Child Survivor’s (Auto)Biographical Memoir 2 Memory Frames: Mendel’s Daughter, A Second-Generation Perspective 3 “Replacing absence with memory”: Bernice Eisenstein’s Graphic Memoir I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors 4 Flying Couch: A Third-Generation Tapestry of Memory 5 Yossel: April 19, 1943: Possible Histories 6 Visual Landscapes of Memory: Fracturing Time and Space Epilogue: An Inheritance of Memory Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisIn Holocaust Graphic Narratives, Victoria Aarons demonstrates the range and fluidity of this richly figured genre. Employing memory as her controlling trope, Aarons analyzes the work of the graphic novelists and illustrators, making clear how they extend the traumatic narrative of the Holocaust into the present and, in doing so, give voice to survival in the wake of unrecoverable loss. In recreating moments of traumatic rupture, dislocation, and disequilibrium, these graphic narratives contribute to the evolving field of Holocaust representation and establish a new canon of visual memory. The intergenerational dialogue established by Aarons’ reading of these narratives speaks to the on-going obligation to bear witness to the Holocaust. Examined together, these intergenerational works bridge the erosions created by time and distance. As a genre of witnessing, these graphic stories, in retracing the traumatic tracks of memory, inscribe the weight of history on generations that follow. Trade Review"Aarons has made a significant contribution to the discourse surrounding graphic narratives dealing with the Shoah. Her discussion of the relationship between word and image is always enlightening...Aarons has offered her readers an intellectual road map with which to read the ever-increasing number of third- and—as the prophet Joel foretold—soon-to-be fourth-generation of Holocaust graphic narratives."— Shofar "Holocaust Graphic Narratives brims with shrewd perceptions, making a necessary case for the significance of this formerly marginalized medium in its grappling with the impossible task of remembrance."— Philip Roth Studies "Holocaust Graphic Narratives is a thoroughly engaging exploration of the history and memory, with applications far beyond comic studies. In what should become a commonly assigned and suggested text, Aarons opens the doors to new ways of approaching the act of bearing witness through graphic narratives."— Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics "[Aaron's] use of memory as a lens and her selection of contemporary graphic narratives make this an insightful and important exploration of the ways in which the medium of the graphic novel is ideally suited for examining the Holocaust and other such complex narratives. Highly recommended."— Choice This is the book that many of us have been waiting for. Aarons's brilliant book offers readers genuinely exciting theoretical and deeply revelatory close explorations of both image and language in a wide range of Holocaust graphic narratives. The author's critical insights into the profound intersectionality of modern Jewish identity, language, memory, modern midrash and testimony are dazzlingly sophisticated, her prose always lucid and appealing. This nuanced and pathbreaking study should be at the top of the list for anyone curious about how graphic artists explore their subjectivities in relation to the weight of painful history; Aarons provides a truly essential resource for classrooms and scholars of the Holocaust as well as intergenerational trauma and commemoration in a wide variety of contexts.— Ranen Omer-Sherman, author of Imagining the Kibbutz: Visions of Utopia in Literature & Film "Holocaust Graphic Novels is a gem. The author is a master of her subject, discussing the many contributions made by graphic Holocaust novels with great erudition. In Aarons' intelligent and insightful readings, the caesura induced by the Shoah continues to send intergenerational psychological shock waves." — Alan Berger, author of Children of Job: American Second-Generation Witnesses to the Holocaust "Aarons shows how the graphic novel’s rich juxtapositions of text and image extends the monumental arc of the Holocaust’s photographic legacy from the immutable past into the subjective and ever-evolving present." — H-Net "Holocaust Graphic Narratives offers a brilliant analysis of central, representative works that have appeared in the wake of Spiegelman’s Maus and provides a vital way for us to re-envision the landscape of post-Holocaust testimony."— Eric Sundquist, author of Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust AmericaTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Visual Testimonies of Memory 1 The Performance of Memory: Miriam Katin’s We Are On Our Own, A Child Survivor’s (Auto)Biographical Memoir 2 Memory Frames: Mendel’s Daughter, A Second-Generation Perspective 3 “Replacing absence with memory”: Bernice Eisenstein’s Graphic Memoir I Was the Child of Holocaust Survivors 4 Flying Couch: A Third-Generation Tapestry of Memory 5 Yossel: April 19, 1943: Possible Histories 6 Visual Landscapes of Memory: Fracturing Time and Space Epilogue: An Inheritance of Memory Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisDiaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses. In this work, scholars from the United States, Israel, and across Europe bring a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to their study of the Holocaust and its aftermath from the family perspective. Drawing on research from Belarus to Great Britain, and examining both Jewish and Romani families, they demonstrate the importance of recognizing how people continued to function within family units—broadly defined—throughout the war and afterward.Trade Review"Charting how both Jewish and Romani families dealt with Nazi persecution, this volume offers a long-overdue and innovative attempt to integrate the histories of these two racially persecuted groups." -- Ari Joskowicz * author of The Modernity of Others: Jewish Anti-Catholicism in Germany and France *In an innovatively comparative and integrated framework, the diverse contributions to this groundbreaking volume examine the variety of intimate ties that Jews and Roma built and broke in their efforts to survive the onslaught of the Holocaust. This outstanding book should top the reading list of anyone interested in the effects of genocide on the most fundamental of human relationships. -- Benjamin Frommer * co-editor of Intermarriage from Central Europe to Central Asia: Mixed Families in the Age of Extreme *Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Why the Family? Kateřina Čapková and Eliyana R. Adler Part 1 - Family in Times of Genocide The Romani Family before and during the Holocaust - How Much do We Know? An Ethnographic-Historical Study in the Belarusian-Lithuanian Border Region Volha Bartash Separation and Divorce in the Łódź and Warsaw Ghettos Michal Unger Narrating Daily Family Life in Ghettos under Nazi Occupation: Concepts and Dilemmas Dalia Ofer Uneasy Bonds: On Jews in Hiding and the Making of Surrogate Families Natalia Aleksiun Part II - Intervention of Institutions Siblings in the Holocaust and its Aftermath in France and the United States: Rethinking the “Holocaust Orphan”? Laura Hobson Faure The Impact of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee’s Aid Strategy on the Lives of Jewish Families in Hungary, 1945–49 Viktória Bányai ‘For Your Benefit’: Military Marriage Policies, European Jewish War Brides, and the Centrality of Family, 1944–1950 Robin Judd Part III - Rebuilding the Family after the Holocaust ‘Returning to Normality?’: The Struggle of Sinti and Roma Survivors to Rebuild a Life in Postwar Germany Anja Reuss ‘I Could Never Forget What They’d Done to My Father’: The Absence and Presence of Holocaust Memory in a Family’s Letter Collection Joachim Schlör ‘Looking for a Nice Jewish girl ...’: Personal Ads and the Creation of Jewish Families in Germany before and after the Holocaust Sarah E. Wobick-Segev The Postwar Migration of Romani Families from Slovakia to the Bohemian Lands: A Complex Legacy of War and Genocide in Czechoslovakia Helena Sadílková Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Ernst Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Holocaust Library Jewish Childhood in Kraków is the first book to tell the history of Kraków in the second World War through the lens of Jewish children’s experiences. Here, children assume center stage as historical actors whose recollections and experiences deserve to be told, analyzed, and treated seriously. Sliwa scours archives to tell their story, gleaning evidence from the records of the German authorities, Polish neighbors, Jewish community and family, and the children themselves to explore the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland and in Kraków in particular. A microhistory of a place, a people, and daily life, this book plumbs the decisions and behaviors of ordinary people in extraordinary times. Offering a window onto human relations and ethnic tensions in times of rampant violence, Jewish Childhood in Kraków is an effort both to understand the past and to reflect on the position of young people during humanitarian crises.Trade Review"Sliwa’s book is an essential contribution to Holocaust scholarship, but even more significantly, she offers us the opportunity to learn about children’s experiences, which often are absent from Holocaust literature. Their concealed presence, which Sliwa spends so much time discussing, is precisely what makes it difficult to tell their stories. But Sliwa’s persistence and ability to dig through a multitude of sources to find even the smallest pieces of information resulted in this remarkable account that will hopefully encourage future scholars to explore the experiences of children in other parts of Poland and Europe." — Rachel Rothstein, H-Poland "A well-researched book. An important addition to Holocaust literature."— Jan T. Gross, author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland "Joanna Sliwa offers a nuanced and compelling picture of what it meant to grow up Jewish under the German occupation of Kraków, one of the oldest Jewish communities in Poland. By giving voice to Jewish children and their fears, heartbreaks, loss, and survival, she allows readers to learn of children’s vulnerability and resilience, agency and helplessness firsthand. These voices will become central to the ways we think about Jewish children’s experiences during the Holocaust."— Natalia Aleksiun, author of Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust :This well researched book on the history of Jewish Childhood in Kraków will become a standard work on the subject, inviting other scholars to investigate Jewish childhood in other ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe.:— Joanna Beata Michlic, author of Poland's Threatening Other: The Image of the Jew from 1880 to the PresentTable of ContentsNote on Terminology Introduction 1 Navigating Shifts in the City 2 Adapting to Life inside the Ghetto 3 Clandestine Activities 4 Child Welfare 5 Concealed Presence in the Camp 6 Survival through Hiding and Flight Epilogue Acknowledgments Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Index

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