"What! Still alive?!" : Jewish survivors in Poland and Israel remember homecoming /

Rice, Monika,

"What! Still alive?!" : Jewish survivors in Poland and Israel remember homecoming / Monika Rice. - First edition. - Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Modern Jewish history .

Includes bibliographies and index.

In search of postwar memory -- The returning survivors: historical context -- The Central Jewish Historical Commission and its project of documenting survivors' stories -- First encounters with the neighbors as represented in the Jewish Historical Institute collection -- Yad Vashem testimonies in the context of Israeli history -- Memories of the first encounters as represented in the Yad Vashem collection -- Comparative analysis of the data: memory on a curve -- Toward building a collective memory.



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Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma.
Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah.


Jews--History--Poland--20th century.
Holocaust survivors--Attitudes.--Poland
Holocaust survivors--Attitudes.--Israel
World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.


Electronic Books.

DS134 / .W438 2017