Jewish and Romani families in the Holocaust and its aftermath

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The work Jewish and Romani families in the Holocaust and its aftermath represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Jewish and Romani families in the Holocaust and its aftermath

Statement of responsibility

edited by Eliyana R. Adler and Kateřina Čapková

Creator

• Adler, Eliyana R

Contributor

• Čapková, Kateřina

Author

• Čapková, Kateřina

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Biography
• Jewish families -- History -- 20th century
• Romanies -- Nazi persecution
• Holocaust survivors -- Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence
• War and families
• Holocaust victims' families -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Diaries, testimonies and memoirs of the Holocaust often include at least as much on the family as on the individual. Victims of the Nazi regime experienced oppression and made decisions embedded within families. Even after the war, sole survivors often described their losses and rebuilt their lives with a distinct focus on family. Yet this perspective is lacking in academic analyses. In this work, scholars from the United States, Israel, and across Europe bring a variety of backgrounds and disciplines to their study of the Holocaust and its aftermath from the family perspective. Drawing on research from Belarus to Great Britain, and examining both Jewish and Romani families, they demonstrate the importance of recognizing how people continued to function within family units-broadly defined-throughout the war and afterward"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Dewey number

306.85089924

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography