Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe /

Jockusch, Laura.

Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe / Laura Jockusch. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012] - xv, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Early chroniclers of the Holocaust: Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in the aftermath of the Second World War -- Khurbn-forshung: history writing as a Jewish response to catastrophe -- Writing French Judaism's "book of martyrdom": Holocaust documentation in liberated France -- Writing Polish Jewry's "greatest national catastrophe": Holocaust documentation in Communist Poland -- Writing history on packed suitcases: Holocaust documentation in the Jewish displaced persons camps of Germany, Austria, and Italy -- History writing as reconstruction: the beginnings of Holocaust research from the perspective of its victims.

0199764557 : HRD $74.00 9780199764556

Oxford Univ Pr, 2001 Evans rd, Cary, NC, USA, 27513 SAN 202-5892

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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives--History and criticism.--Europe
Holocaust survivors--History.--Europe
World War, 1939-1945--Historiography.
Memorial books (Holocaust)
Collective memory--Europe.
Historiography--History--Europe--20th century.


Germany--History--Historiography.--1933-1945

D804.348 / .J63 2012

940.53/18072