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Flares of memory : stories of childhood during the Holocaust / edited by Anita Brostoff with Sheila Chamovitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Biography.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Including a timeline that chronicles the rise of the Nazis, this book consists of 92 stories written by Jewish survivors and US Army liberators about their experiences during the Holocaust.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Timeline of the Holocaust; Map of Concentration Camps in Europe; Preface; Introduction; I. SNAPSHOTS: JEWISH LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST; II. THE DESTRUCTION OF A SOCIETY; III. RUTHLESSNESS AS A SYSTEM; IV. THE LOTTERY OF DEATH AND LIFE; V. DISGUISE AS A WAY OF HIDING; VI. THE SUSTAINING POWER OF FAMILY LOVE; VII. THE VIRTUOUS AND THE VICIOUS; VIII. DESPERATE HEROISM; IX. EMERGENCE INTO LIGHT; X. THE AFTERMATH:REMEMBERING; ADDENDUM: SEEN WITH MY OWN EYES: STORIES BY AMERCIAN LIBERATORS; Biographies of Survivor-Authors; Photographs of Liberator-Authors; Author Index
- Story Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: Pittsburgh, Pa.: Holocaust Center of the United Jewish Federation of Pittsburgh, 1998.
- Includes index.
- Previously issued in print: 2001.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771306-8
- 0-19-028878-7
- 1-280-65533-X
- 0-19-803171-8
- OCLC:
- 320902909
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