Tragedy and Triumph : Early Testimonies of Jewish Survivors of World War II / Freda Hodge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodge, Freda, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Melbourne: Australia : Monash University Publishing, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this collection Freda Hodge retrieves early voices of Holocaust survivors. Men, women and children relate experiences of deportation and ghettoisation, forced labour camps and death camps, death marches and liberation. As Feliks Tych points out, such eye-witness accounts collected in the immediate post-war period constitute the most important body of Jewish documents pertaining to the history of the Holocaust. The freshness of memory makes these early voices profoundly different from, and historically more significant than, later recollections gathered in oral history programs. Carefully selected and painstakingly translated, these survivor accounts were first published between 1946 and 1948 in the Yiddish journal Fun Letzten Khurben (†̃From the Last Destruction') in postwar Germany, by refugees waiting in †̃Displaced Person' camps, in the American zone of occupation, for the arrival of travel documents and visas. These accounts have not previously been available in English.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 102639

ISBN:

9781925523881

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access