Tragedy and triumph : early testimonies of Jewish survivors of World War II /
Tragedy and triumph : early testimonies of Jewish survivors of World War II /
compiled and translated by Freda Hodge.
- Clayton, Victoria : Monash University Publishing, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles
Contains biographical information.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Introduction: The early testimonies of She'erit Hapletah in the aftermath of World War II / Why do we need historical commissions? / Mielice Labour Camp / Life and death of the Jews in Dubno / The transport from the death camp Balkenheim / The last road for twelve hundred Bialystok children / In Radun / A chapter about Siedlice / The slaughter at the edge of the sea / In the Braslav region / Sobibor / Through ghettos and concentration camps: Nemencine, Ozmiana, Czeczmer, Kovno, Ponevezh and Eastern Prussia / Treblinka / In the White Russian forests / In Camp Kaldycheva / The last resistance fighters in Bialystok ghetto / Experiences of a Jewish Aryan / The large factories in Kovno ghetto / Volozhn / Myadel and surroundings / In a Hungarian work battalion / Death of a runner / In Auschwitz with two small children / Memories of the ghetto of Stanislavov / The fortress of death (in the Ninth Fort of Kovno) / Resistance movement in the ghetto of Kovno / The children's narratives in Fun Letzten Khurben -- My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / Addendum: select information pertaining to the testimonies -- Bibliography. Konrad Kwiet -- Freda Hodge -- M. Y. Feigenbaum -- Josef Kas -- Moishe Weisberg -- Eyewitness account by Maurice Kraus -- Shprung-Levkowitz -- Leib Levine -- Getzl Weisberg -- Miriam Zweig -- Moshe Treister -- Yekheskel (Chaskiel) Menche -- Leah Rudovshevski -- H. Shperling -- Moshe Meyerson -- Yudel Samsonovitz -- Rabbi A Burstin -- Anna Holtzman -- Moshe Segalson -- Yosef Schwartzberg -- Henia Menkin -- Moshe Dov Taub -- Cessia Shilling -- Esther Weiss -- Lusia Gerber -- Michal Gelbtrunk -- Rochie Ben Eliezer -- Josef Shuster -- Ella Griliches -- Fania Olitzki -- Arieh Milch -- Yaakov Levin -- Genia Shurtz --
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.
9781925523676 9781925523881 9781925523980
2019403506
Holocaust survivors--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Holocaust survivors.
Australian
Electronic Books.
D804 / .T734 2018
Contains biographical information.
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Introduction: The early testimonies of She'erit Hapletah in the aftermath of World War II / Why do we need historical commissions? / Mielice Labour Camp / Life and death of the Jews in Dubno / The transport from the death camp Balkenheim / The last road for twelve hundred Bialystok children / In Radun / A chapter about Siedlice / The slaughter at the edge of the sea / In the Braslav region / Sobibor / Through ghettos and concentration camps: Nemencine, Ozmiana, Czeczmer, Kovno, Ponevezh and Eastern Prussia / Treblinka / In the White Russian forests / In Camp Kaldycheva / The last resistance fighters in Bialystok ghetto / Experiences of a Jewish Aryan / The large factories in Kovno ghetto / Volozhn / Myadel and surroundings / In a Hungarian work battalion / Death of a runner / In Auschwitz with two small children / Memories of the ghetto of Stanislavov / The fortress of death (in the Ninth Fort of Kovno) / Resistance movement in the ghetto of Kovno / The children's narratives in Fun Letzten Khurben -- My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / My experiences during the war / Addendum: select information pertaining to the testimonies -- Bibliography. Konrad Kwiet -- Freda Hodge -- M. Y. Feigenbaum -- Josef Kas -- Moishe Weisberg -- Eyewitness account by Maurice Kraus -- Shprung-Levkowitz -- Leib Levine -- Getzl Weisberg -- Miriam Zweig -- Moshe Treister -- Yekheskel (Chaskiel) Menche -- Leah Rudovshevski -- H. Shperling -- Moshe Meyerson -- Yudel Samsonovitz -- Rabbi A Burstin -- Anna Holtzman -- Moshe Segalson -- Yosef Schwartzberg -- Henia Menkin -- Moshe Dov Taub -- Cessia Shilling -- Esther Weiss -- Lusia Gerber -- Michal Gelbtrunk -- Rochie Ben Eliezer -- Josef Shuster -- Ella Griliches -- Fania Olitzki -- Arieh Milch -- Yaakov Levin -- Genia Shurtz --
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.
9781925523676 9781925523881 9781925523980
2019403506
Holocaust survivors--Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities.
Holocaust survivors.
Australian
Electronic Books.
D804 / .T734 2018