Holocaust and memory : the experience of the Holocaust and its consequences : an investigation based on personal narratives / Barbara Engelking ; edited by Gunnar S. Paulsson ; translated by Emma Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Engelking, Barbara, 1962- author.

Contributor:

Paulsson, Gunnar S., editor.

Harris, Emma, translator.

Standardized Title:

Zagłada i pamięć. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Sources.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Jews--Poland--Interviews.

Jews.

Holocaust survivors--Poland.

Holocaust survivors.

Poland--Ethnic relations.

Poland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The book is the product of a protracted, laborious and scrupulous research and draws on a most extensive and varied assembly of documents. But the archival evidence, factual accounts and even personal narratives would have remained remote, dry and cold if not for the author's remarkable gift of empathy. Barbara Engelking gives the witnesses of the Holocaust a voice which readers of this book will understand....Under her pen memories come alive again.--from the Foreword by Zygmunt BaumanOriginally published in Polish to great acclaim and based on interviews with survivors of the Holocaust in Po

Contents:

CONTENTS; Foreword, Zygmunt Bauman; Editor's Introduction, Gunnar S. Paulsson; Introduction, Barbara Engelking; 1 The Ghetto, the 'Aryan Side', Concentration Camps; 2. Daily Life in the Ghetto; 3. Why Did It Happen?; 4 The Psychological Consequences of Holocaust Experiences; 5. The Legacy of the Holocaust; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-340) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613196934

9781441102027

1441102027

9781283196932

128319693X

9780567342775

0567342778

OCLC:

741690863