The people on the beach : journeys to freedom after the holocaust / Rosie Whitehouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitehouse, Rosie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust survivors.

Italy.

Holocaust survivors--Biography.

Holocaust survivors--Italy.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 294 pages, 20 unpaged pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hurst & Company, 2020.

Summary:

"One summer's night in 1946, over 1,000 European Jews waited silently on an Italian beach to board a secret ship. They had survived Auschwitz, hidden and fought in forests and endured death marches--now they were taking on the Royal Navy, running the British blockade of Palestine. From Eastern Europe to Israel via Germany and Italy, Rosie Whitehouse follows in the footsteps of those secret passengers, uncovering their extraordinary stories--some told for the first time. Who were those people on the beach? Where and what had they come from, and how had they survived? Why, after being liberated, did so many Jews still feel unsafe in Europe? How do we--and don't we--remember the Holocaust today? This remarkable, important book digs deep and travels far in search of answers."-- Amazon.com summary.

Contents:

Out Of The East

1 Rivne: Bandera's Victory p. 11

2 Auschwitz: Who Is For Life? p. 25

3 Vilnius: Harmatz's Choice p. 41

4 Poland: The Homecoming p. 57

5 Bucharest: An Eye for an Eye p. 79

6 Tarvisio:The Gateway to Zion p. 87

7 Dachau: Human Debris p. 97

8 St Ottilien: The Doctor and His Patients p. 107

9 Landsberg: The Town Where Nothing Happened p. 119

10 Munich: The Survivors' Passover p. 129

Italy

31 Milan: Peddling History p. 141

12 Selvino: The Most Vulnerable People in the World p. 153

13 Fiesole: The Lost Boys of the Bencista p. 165

14 Santa Maria di Bagni: Time to Breathe p. 181

15 Magenta: The Secret Camp p. 189

16 New York: F***B Shipping p. 199

17 La Spezta: Move Over Paul Newman p. 207

18 Haifa: The People's Trafalgar p. 217

19 Tel Aviv. Only Yesterday p. 233.

ISBN:

9781787383777

1787383776

OCLC:

1142520935

Publisher Number:

99985690110