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The liberation of the camps : the end of the Holocaust and its aftermath / Dan Stone.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300216035
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • D805 .L534 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction: Explaining Liberation -- chapter one Liberated by the Soviets -- chapter two The Western Allies -- The Liberated -- chapter three Out of the Chaos -- chapter four Displaced Persons or Betrayed Persons? Life in the DP Camps -- Rebuilding Lives -- Psychological Problems -- Education: �If only the world would send us books, books, books!�85 -- Theatre -- Religion -- Family -- Training and Rehabilitation -- Zionism -- BPs?
Cold War Effects -- Conclusion: The Sorrows of Liberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Subject: Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors-their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors' immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead. --
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Introduction: Explaining Liberation -- chapter one Liberated by the Soviets -- chapter two The Western Allies -- The Liberated -- chapter three Out of the Chaos -- chapter four Displaced Persons or Betrayed Persons? Life in the DP Camps -- Rebuilding Lives -- Psychological Problems -- Education: �If only the world would send us books, books, books!�85 -- Theatre -- Religion -- Family -- Training and Rehabilitation -- Zionism -- BPs?

Chapter five Transitions: DPs in a Changing WorldStrained Alliance -- Cold War Effects -- Conclusion: The Sorrows of Liberation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors-their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors' immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead. --

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