Life in transit : Jews in postwar Łódź, 1945-1950 / Shimon Redlich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Redlich, Shimon.

Contributor:

National Endowment for the Humanities and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program, Funder.

Series:

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history.

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Redlich, Shimon.

Jews--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century.

Jews.

Holocaust survivors--Poland--Łódź--History--20th century.

Holocaust survivors.

Holocaust survivors--Israel--Travel--Poland--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Łódź (Poland)--Biography.

Łódź (Poland).

Łódź (Poland)--Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brighton, Mass. : Academic Studies Press, 2010.

Academic Studies Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlich's widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlich's personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Łódź during the immediate postwar years. Lodz in the years 1945-1950 was the second-largest city in the country and the major urban center of the Jewish population. Redlich's research based on conventional sources and numerous interviews indicates that although the survivors still lived in the shadow of the Holocaust, postwar Jewish Lodz was permeated with a sense of vitality and hope.

Contents:

My Łódź memories

Postwar Lodz

Jews in postwar Łódź

Friends, acquaintances, strangers

Surviving : war: the first days. The Eastward Trek. Inside Russia. In the Soviet South. Returning to Poland. In the Ghettos. In the camps. On the Aryan Side

The Zionists

The others.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 05 2025)

ISBN:

9781618116888

1618116886

9781618110084

161811008X

OCLC:

785776757