Political survivors : the resistance, the Cold War, and the fight against concentration camps after 1945 /

Kuby, Emma, 1981-

Political survivors : the resistance, the Cold War, and the fight against concentration camps after 1945 / Emma Kuby. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Survivors as witnesses in postwar France -- David Rousset's Cold War call to arms -- Forging the international commission -- Nuremberg restaged : the Soviet Univers concentrationnaire on trial -- Into the labyrinth of Franco's prisons -- Triumphs and tensions on the global stage -- From Auschwitz to Algeria : the limits of memory.

"History of concentration camp survivors who launched an international campaign to expose ongoing crimes against humanity in the 1950s that illuminates how the memory of Nazi atrocity both spurred and distorted Europeans' efforts to comprehend the persistent violence of the Cold War world"--



9781501732805

2018032294


Commission internationale contre le régime concentrationnaire--History.


Internment camps--History--20th century.
Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates--Political activity.
Holocaust survivors--Political activity.
Human rights workers--History--Europe--20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.
Cold War--History.


Electronic Books.

HV8963 / .P655 2019