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The Last Consolation Vanished
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Author : Zalmen Gradowski
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2022-11-15
The Last Consolation Vanished written by Zalmen Gradowski and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Religion categories.
A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate uprising that was defeated by the end of the day. More than four hundred prisoners were killed. Filling a gap in history, The Last Consolation Vanished is the first complete English translation and critical edition of one prisoner’s powerful account of life and death in Auschwitz, written in Yiddish and buried in the ashes near Crematorium III. Zalmen Gradowski was in the Sonderkommando (special squad) at Auschwitz, a Jewish prisoner given the unthinkable task of ushering Jewish deportees into the gas chambers, removing their bodies, salvaging any valuables, transporting their corpses to the crematoria, and destroying all evidence of their murders. Sonderkommandos were forcibly recruited by SS soldiers; when they discovered the horror of their assignment, some of them committed suicide or tried to induce the SS to kill them. Despite their impossible situation, many Sonderkommandos chose to resist in two interlaced ways: planning an uprising and testifying. Gradowski did both, by helping to lead a rebellion and by documenting his experiences. Within 120 scrawled notebook pages, his accounts describe the process of the Holocaust, the relentless brutality of the Nazi regime, the assassination of Czech Jews, the relationships among the community of men forced to assist in this nightmare, and the unbearable separation and death of entire families, including his own. Amid daily unimaginable atrocities, he somehow wrote pages that were literary, sometimes even lyrical—hidden where and when one would least expect to find them. The October 7th rebellion was completely crushed and Gradowski was killed in the process, but his testimony lives on. His extraordinary and moving account, accompanied by a foreword and afterword by Philippe Mesnard and Arnold I. Davidson, is a voice speaking to us from the past on behalf of millions who were silenced. Their story must be shared.
The Last Consolation Vanished
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Author : Zalmen Gradowski
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2024-05-06
The Last Consolation Vanished written by Zalmen Gradowski and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate uprising that was defeated by the end of the day. More than four hundred prisoners were killed. Filling a gap in history, The Last Consolation Vanished is the first complete English translation and critical edition of one prisoner’s powerful account of life and death in Auschwitz, written in Yiddish and buried in the ashes near Crematorium III. Zalmen Gradowski was in the Sonderkommando (special squad) at Auschwitz, a Jewish prisoner given the unthinkable task of ushering Jewish deportees into the gas chambers, removing their bodies, salvaging any valuables, transporting their corpses to the crematoria, and destroying all evidence of their murders. Sonderkommandos were forcibly recruited by SS soldiers; when they discovered the horror of their assignment, some of them committed suicide or tried to induce the SS to kill them. Despite their impossible situation, many Sonderkommandos chose to resist in two interlaced ways: planning an uprising and testifying. Gradowski did both, by helping to lead a rebellion and by documenting his experiences. Within 120 scrawled notebook pages, his accounts describe the process of the Holocaust, the relentless brutality of the Nazi regime, the assassination of Czech Jews, the relationships among the community of men forced to assist in this nightmare, and the unbearable separation and death of entire families, including his own. Amid daily unimaginable atrocities, he somehow wrote pages that were literary, sometimes even lyrical—hidden where and when one would least expect to find them. The October 7th rebellion was completely crushed and Gradowski was killed in the process, but his testimony lives on. His extraordinary and moving account, accompanied by a foreword and afterword by Philippe Mesnard and Arnold I. Davidson, is a voice speaking to us from the past on behalf of millions who were silenced. Their story must be shared.
We Wept Without Tears
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Author : Gideon Greif
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
We Wept Without Tears written by Gideon Greif and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with History categories.
The "Sonderkommando of "Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before.
Cruelty
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Author : Maggie Schein
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-12-02
Cruelty written by Maggie Schein and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-02 with Philosophy categories.
Cruelty is such a ubiquitous and at the same time disturbing phenomenon that we take for granted that we understand what it is, and how it impacts the ways in which we think about our humanity as a moral condition—how we understand our moral significance. Cruelty: A Book About Us offers an accessible interrogation of cruelty and humanity, and, most critically, it provides a groundwork for us to raise questions collectively; it is an invitation for us all to join in the dialogue. Through academic studies, literary works, and’ personal stories and observations, this book provokes deeper insights into why cruel acts trouble our usual ways of articulating and addressing wrongness. Mining interdisciplinary sources, it excavates what we may not know we don't know and guides us in conversations about this profoundly evocative and often uneasy subject.
Ccar Journal The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2024
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Author : Edwin Goldberg
language : en
Publisher: CCAR Press
Release Date : 2024-03-15
Ccar Journal The Reform Jewish Quarterly Winter 2024 written by Edwin Goldberg and has been published by CCAR Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-15 with Religion categories.
This issue of the CCAR Journal focuses on the relationship between Judaism and rapid technological change, the disconnect between information and meaning, and related existential questions facing the Reform Movement. General articles, book reviews, and poetry are also included.
Representing Auschwitz
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Author : N. Chare
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-09-19
Representing Auschwitz written by N. Chare and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-19 with History categories.
This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The highly literary accounts pose a fundamental challenge to the idea the Holocaust cannot be attested to.
The Truth About Fania F Nelon And The Women S Orchestra Of Auschwitz Birkenau
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Author : Susan Eischeid
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-25
The Truth About Fania F Nelon And The Women S Orchestra Of Auschwitz Birkenau written by Susan Eischeid and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-25 with History categories.
This book explores how the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz-Birkenau has been remembered in both media and popular culture since the end of the Second World War. In particular it focuses on Fania Fenelon’s memoir, Playing for Time (1976), which was subsequently adapted into a film. Since then the publication has become a cornerstone of Holocaust remembrance and scholarship. Susan Eischeid therefore investigates whether it deserves such status, and whether such material can ever be considered reliable source material for historians. Using divergent source material gathered by the author, such as interviews with the other surviving members of the orchestra, this Pivot seeks to shed light on this period of women’s history, and questions how we remember the Holocaust today.
Au Coeur De L Enfer
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Author : Zalmen Gradowski
language : fr
Publisher: Editions Kimé
Release Date : 2001
Au Coeur De L Enfer written by Zalmen Gradowski and has been published by Editions Kimé this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
L'édition intégrale d'un manuscrit écrit par Zalmen Gradowski, juste avant sa mort survenue dans un camp de concentration. L'auteur faisait partie de ces équipes spéciales appelées Sonderkommando, qui assuraient le fonctionnement des chambres à gaz et étaient présentes avant et après la gazage des prisonniers.
Landscapes Of The Metropolis Of Death
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Author : Otto Dov Kulka
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-01-31
Landscapes Of The Metropolis Of Death written by Otto Dov Kulka and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-31 with History categories.
Otto Dov Kulka's memoir of a childhood spent in Auschwitz is a literary feat of astounding emotional power, exploring the permanent and indelible marks left by the Holocaust Winner of the JEWISH QUARTERLY-WINGATE PRIZE 2014 As a child, the distinguished historian Otto Dov Kulka was sent first to the ghetto of Theresienstadt and then to Auschwitz. As one of the few survivors he has spent much of his life studying Nazism and the Holocaust, but always as a discipline requiring the greatest coldness and objectivity, with his personal story set to one side. But he has remained haunted by specific memories and images, thoughts he has been unable to shake off. Translated by Ralph Mandel. 'The greatest book on Auschwitz since Primo Levi ... Kulka has achieved the impossible' - the panel of Judges, Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
Germans Jews And Antisemites
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Author : Shulamit Volkov
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-24
Germans Jews And Antisemites written by Shulamit Volkov and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-24 with History categories.
The ferocity of the Nazi attack upon the Jews took many by surprise. Volkov argues that a new look at both the nature of antisemitism and at the complexity of modern Jewish life in Germany is required in order to provide an explanation. While antisemitism had a number of functions in pre-Nazi German society, it most particularly served as a cultural code, a sign of belonging to a particular political and cultural milieu. Surprisingly, it only had a limited effect on the lives of the Jews themselves. By the end of the nineteenth century, their integration was well advanced. Many of them enjoyed prosperity, prestige, and the pleasures of metropolitan life. This book stresses the dialectical nature of assimilation, the lead of the Jews in the processes of modernization, and, finally, their continuous efforts to 'invent' a modern Judaism that would fit their new social and cultural position.
