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Witnessing the Holocaust : six literary testimonies / Judith M. Hughes

Author
Hughes, Judith M.
Published
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
x, 155 pages ; 24 cm.

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Contents
"Everything I considered unGerman ... flourishes here": Victor Klemperer -- "How completely homeless I am" -- "Murder is ... at our heels" -- Coda -- Childhoods, disrupted: Ruth Kluger and Michal Glowinski -- "Timescapes" -- "Flashes of memory" -- "Hier ist kein warum" (There Is no why here): Primo Levi -- "The demolition of a man" -- January 1945 -- Henri testifies -- Coda -- "Naturally": Imre Kertész -- "I ought to have been learning ... about Auschwitz" -- "I would like to live a little longer" -- Coda -- An escape story: Béla Zsolt -- Missed opportunity (1) -- Missed opportunity (2) -- In the ghetto -- The Kasztner train -- Conclusion.
Summary
"Witnessing the Holocaust presents the autobiographical writings, including diaries and autobiographical fiction, of six Holocaust survivors who lived through and chronicled the Nazi genocide. Drawing extensively on the works of Victor Klemperer, Ruth Kluger, Michal Glowinski, Primo Levi, Imre Kertesz and Bela Zsolt, this books conveys, with vivid detail, the persecution of the Jews from the beginning of the Third Reich until its very end. It gives us a sense both of what the Holocaust meant to the wider community swept up in the horrors and what it was like for the individual to weather one of the most shocking events in history. Survivors and witnesses disappear, and history, not memory, becomes the instrument for recalling the past. Judith M. Hughes secures a place for narratives by those who experienced the Holocaust in person. This compelling text is a vital read for all students of the Holocaust and Holocaust memory."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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ISBN
1350058572 paperback
9781350058576 paperback
9781350058583 hardcover
1350058580 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-151) and index.
Endowment Note
Permanent Endowment for the Holocaust and Genocide Collection for the Library at Penn State Harrisburg
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