The Resource Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe, Laura Jockusch, (electronic resource)
Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe, Laura Jockusch, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War. In the first postwar decade, these initiatives collected thousands of Nazi documents along with testimonies, memoirs, diaries, songs, poems, and artifacts of Jewish victims. They pioneered in developing a Holocaust historiography that placed the experiences of Jews at the center and used both victim and perpetrator sources to describe the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the everyday life and death of European Jews under the Nazi regime. This book is the first in-depth monograph on these survivor historians and the organizations they created. A comparative analysis, it focuses on France, Poland, Germany, Austria, and Italy, analyzing the motivations and rationales that guided survivors in chronicling the destruction they had witnessed, while also discussing their research techniques, archival collections, and historical publications. It reflects growing attention to survivor testimony and to the active roles of survivors in rebuilding their postwar lives. It also discusses the role of documenting, testifying, and history writing in processes of memory formation, rehabilitation, and coping with trauma. Jockusch finds that despite differences in background and wartime experiences between the predominantly amateur historians who created the commissions, the activists found documenting the Holocaust to be a moral imperative after the war, the obligation of the dead to the living, and a means for the survivors to understand and process their recent trauma and loss. Furthermore, historical documentation was vital in the pursuit of postwar justice and was deemed essential in counteracting efforts on the part of the Nazis to erase their wartime crimes. The survivors who created the historical commissions were the first people to study the development of Nazi policy towards the Jews and also to document Jewish responses to persecution, a topic that was largely ignored by later generations of Holocaust scholars --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 320 pages)
- Isbn
- 9780199979578
- Label
- Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe
- Title
- Collect and record!
- Title remainder
- Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe
- Statement of responsibility
- Laura Jockusch
- Subject
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- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography
- Historiography -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Holocaust survivors -- Europe -- History
- Holocaust survivors -- History
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- Europe -- History and criticism
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives | History and criticism
- Memorial books (Holocaust)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Historiography
- Collective memory -- Europe
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book describes the vibrant activity of survivors who founded Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in Europe immediately after the Second World War. In the first postwar decade, these initiatives collected thousands of Nazi documents along with testimonies, memoirs, diaries, songs, poems, and artifacts of Jewish victims. They pioneered in developing a Holocaust historiography that placed the experiences of Jews at the center and used both victim and perpetrator sources to describe the social, economic, and cultural aspects of the everyday life and death of European Jews under the Nazi regime. This book is the first in-depth monograph on these survivor historians and the organizations they created. A comparative analysis, it focuses on France, Poland, Germany, Austria, and Italy, analyzing the motivations and rationales that guided survivors in chronicling the destruction they had witnessed, while also discussing their research techniques, archival collections, and historical publications. It reflects growing attention to survivor testimony and to the active roles of survivors in rebuilding their postwar lives. It also discusses the role of documenting, testifying, and history writing in processes of memory formation, rehabilitation, and coping with trauma. Jockusch finds that despite differences in background and wartime experiences between the predominantly amateur historians who created the commissions, the activists found documenting the Holocaust to be a moral imperative after the war, the obligation of the dead to the living, and a means for the survivors to understand and process their recent trauma and loss. Furthermore, historical documentation was vital in the pursuit of postwar justice and was deemed essential in counteracting efforts on the part of the Nazis to erase their wartime crimes. The survivors who created the historical commissions were the first people to study the development of Nazi policy towards the Jews and also to document Jewish responses to persecution, a topic that was largely ignored by later generations of Holocaust scholars --
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- Jockusch, Laura
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Holocaust survivors
- World War, 1939-1945
- Memorial books (Holocaust)
- Collective memory
- Historiography
- Germany
- Label
- Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe, Laura Jockusch, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- online resource
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- text
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- txt
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- Control code
- EDZ0000107409
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 320 pages)
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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- 9780199979578
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- computer
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- rdamedia.
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)827952108
- Label
- Collect and record! : Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe, Laura Jockusch, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- EDZ0000107409
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xv, 320 pages)
- Form of item
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
- Isbn
- 9780199979578
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)827952108
Subject
- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography
- Historiography -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
- Holocaust survivors -- Europe -- History
- Holocaust survivors -- History
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives -- Europe -- History and criticism
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives | History and criticism
- Memorial books (Holocaust)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Historiography
- Collective memory -- Europe
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