The train journey : transit, captivity, and witnessing in the Holocaust / Simone Gigliotti
Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis? genocidal vision of the ?Final Solution of the Jewish Question.? Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the ?Final So...
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| Główni autorzy: | Gigliotti, Simone (Autor) |
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| Format: | Online-Resource |
| Język: | English |
| Wydane: | New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 |
| Seria: | Studies on war and genocide
Volume 13 |
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| Dostęp online: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication OCLC metadata license agreement Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Streszczenie: | Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis? genocidal vision of the ?Final Solution of the Jewish Question.? Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the ?Final Solution,? Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: ?How can railways be regarded as anything more than physical equipment that was used, when the time came, to transport the Jews from various cities to shooting grounds and gas chambers in Eastern Europe?? This book explores the question by analyzing victims? experiences at each stage of forced relocation: the round-ups and departures from the ghettos, the captivity in trains, and finally, the arrival at the camps. Utilizing a variety of published memoirs and unpublished testimonies, the book argues that victims experienced train journeys as mobile chambers, comparable in importance to fixed locations of persecution such as ghettos and camps Chapter 1-Introduction -- Chapter 2-Resettlement -- Chapter 3-Ghetto Departures -- Chapter 4-Immobilization in "Cattle Cars" -- Chapter 5-Sensory Witnessing and Railway Shock -- Chapter 6-Camp Arrivals -- Chapter 7-Conclusion |
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| Deskrypcja: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Opis fizyczny: | 1 Online-Ressource (252 pages) illustrations, charts, figures, tables |
| ISBN: | 9781785334771 9781845459277 |
| Ograniczenie dostępu: | Open Access |
