Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe / Laura Jockusch
- Author
- Jockusch, Laura
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, [2012]
- Copyright Date
- ©2012
- Physical Description
- xv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Contents
- Early chroniclers of the Holocaust : Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in the aftermath of the Second World War -- Khurbn-forshung : history writing as a Jewish response to catastrophe -- Writing French Judaism's "book of martyrdom" : Holocaust documentation in liberated France -- Writing Polish Jewry's "greatest national catastrophe" : Holocaust documentation in Communist Poland -- Writing history while sitting on packed suitcases : Holocaust documentation in the Jewish displaced persons camps of Germany, Austria, and Italy -- Joining forces to comprehend the Jewish catastrophe : the attempt to establish a European community of Holocaust researchers -- History writing as reconstruction : the beginnings of Holocaust research from the perspective of its victims -- Appendix : major participants in the Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers.
- Subject(s)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Historiography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Personal narratives—Europe—History and criticism
- Holocaust survivors—Europe—History
- World War, 1939-1945—Historiography
- Memorial books (Holocaust)
- Collective memory—Europe
- Historiography—Europe—History—20th century
- Germany—History—1933-1945—Historiography
- ISBN
- 9780199764556 (hardback : acid-free paper)
0199764557 (hardback : acid-free paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307) and index.
- Endowment Note
- Permanent Endowment for the Holocaust and Genocide Collection for the Library at Penn State Harrisburg
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