The Muselmann At The Water Cooler
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The M Selmann At The Water Cooler
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Author : Eli Pfefferkorn
language : en
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Release Date : 2012-01-20
The M Selmann At The Water Cooler written by Eli Pfefferkorn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-20 with categories.
Winner of the 2012 Helen and Stan Vine Canadian Jewish Book Award in Holocaust Literature. A survivor of concentration camps and the Death March, Eli Pfefferkorn looks back on his Holocaust and post-Holocaust experiences to compare patterns of human behavior in extremis with those of ordinary life. What he finds is that the concentration camp Muselmann, who has lost his hunger for life and is thus shunned by his fellow inmates on the soup line, bears an eerie resemblance to an office employee who has fallen from grace and whose coworkers avoid spending time with him at the water cooler. Though the circumstances are unfathomably far apart, the human response to their situations is triggered by self-preservation rather than by calculated evil. By juxtaposing these two separate worlds, Pfefferkorn demonstrates that ultimately the human condition has not changed significantly since Cain slew Abel and the Athenians sentenced Socrates.
The Muselman At The Water Cooler
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Author : Eli Pfefferkorn
language : en
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Release Date : 2011-05-17
The Muselman At The Water Cooler written by Eli Pfefferkorn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-17 with categories.
In his memoir, The Muselmann at the Water Cooler, Eli Pfefferkorn encapsulates the human condition through his own experiences as a Holocaust survivor.
Unstoppable
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Author : Joshua M. Greene
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-03-23
Unstoppable written by Joshua M. Greene and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Winner – Best of Los Angeles Award's "Best Holocaust Book - 2021" “A must-read that hopefully will be adapted for the screen. Greene lets Wilzig’s effervescent spirit shine through, and his story will appeal to a wide variety of readers.” - Library Journal Unstoppable is the ultimate immigrant story and an epic David-and-Goliath adventure. While American teens were socializing in ice cream parlors, Siggi was suffering beatings by Nazi hoodlums for being a Jew and was soon deported along with his family to the darkest place the world has ever known: Auschwitz. Siggi used his wits to stay alive, pretending to have trade skills the Nazis could exploit to run the camp. After two death marches and near starvation, he was liberated from camp Mauthausen and went to work for the US Army hunting Nazis, a service that earned him a visa to America. On arrival, he made three vows: to never go hungry again, to support the Jewish people, and to speak out against injustice. He earned his first dollar shoveling snow after a fierce blizzard. His next job was laboring in toxic sweatshops. From these humble beginnings, he became President, Chairman and CEO of a New York Stock Exchange-listed oil company and grew a full-service commercial bank to more than $4 billion in assets. Siggi’s ascent from the darkest of yesterdays to the brightest of tomorrows holds sway over the imagination in this riveting narrative of grit, cunning, luck, and the determination to live life to the fullest.
Lessons Of The Holocaust
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Author : Michael R. Marrus
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Lessons Of The Holocaust written by Michael R. Marrus and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with Historiography categories.
Sixty years ago, the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the 20th century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes. This book challenges the notion that there are definitive lessons to be deduced from the destruction of European Jewry. Instead, it shows how its lessons are constantly challenged, debated, altered, and reinterpreted. -- Publisher description
Stealth Altruism
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Author : Arthur B. Shostak
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
Stealth Altruism written by Arthur B. Shostak and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with History categories.
Though it has been nearly seventy years since the Holocaust, the human capacity for evil displayed by its perpetrators is still shocking and haunting. But the story of the Nazi attempt to annihilate European Jewry is not all we should remember. Stealth Altruism tells of secret, non-militant, high-risk efforts by “Carers,” those victims who tried to reduce suffering and improve everyone’s chances of survival. Their empowering acts of altruism remind us of our inherent longing to do good even in situations of extraordinary brutality. Arthur B. Shostak explores forbidden acts of kindness, such as sharing scarce clothing and food rations, holding up weakened fellow prisoners during roll call, secretly replacing an ailing friend in an exhausting work detail, and much more. He explores the motivation behind this dangerous behavior, how it differed when in or out of sight, who provided or undermined forbidden care, the differing experiences of men and women, how and why gentiles provided aid, and, most importantly, how might the costly obscurity of stealth altruism soon be corrected. To date, memorialization has emphasized what was done to victims and sidelined what victims tried to do for one another. “Carers” provide an inspiring model and their perilous efforts should be recognized and taught alongside the horrors of the Holocaust. Humanity needs such inspiration.
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Author : Джошуа Грин
language : ru
Publisher: Азбука-Аттикус
Release Date : 2022-03-21
written by Джошуа Грин and has been published by Азбука-Аттикус this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
На основе подлинного материала — воспоминаний бывшего узника нацистских концлагерей, а впоследствии крупного американского бизнесмена, нефтяного магната, филантропа и борца с антисемитизмом, хранителя памяти о Холокосте Зигберта Вильцига, диалогов с его родственниками, друзьями, коллегами и конкурентами, отрывков из его выступлений, а также документов из фондов Музея истории Холокоста писатель Джошуа Грин создал портрет сложного человека, для которого ценность жизни была в том, чтобы осуществлять неосуществимые мечты и побеждать непобедимых врагов. В каждой строке биографии героя этой книги, с честью пережившего «самый темный час в истории» с его тяжелейшими испытаниями, но потерявшего в годы нацизма своих самых близких людей, заключен универсальный, вдохновляющий и подлинно гуманистический смысл. «Вероятно, такого бизнесмена, как Зигги Вильциг, больше не будет никогда: это единственный выживший узник Освенцима, который бедным и необразованным приехал в Америку и из уборщика фабричных туалетов превратился в президента котируемой на Нью-Йоркской фондовой бирже нефтяной компании и коммерческого банка с многомиллиардным капиталом. То, что ему удалось добиться такого успеха в двух самых антисемитских отраслях экономики послевоенной Америки, делает его достижения еще более впечатляющими. Зигги был неквалифицированным работником, имевшим лишь начальное образование, к тому же иностранцем: он приехал из Европы с 240 долларами в кармане и первый свой доллар в Америке заработал на уборке снега. Все, с кем я беседовал при подготовке этой книги, сходились в одном: никто из них не знал ни одной другой судьбы, напоминавшей судьбу Зигги хотя бы отдаленно. Хотя все опрошенные говорили о его чудесном спасении после многолетних страданий Холокоста, больше всего они подчеркивали то, как ему удалось преодолеть эти трагические события и стать значимой фигурой в американском бизнесе». (Джошуа Грин)
Holocaust Oral History Und Das Lange Ende Der Zeitzeugenschaft
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Author : Jan Taubitz
language : de
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
Release Date : 2016-01-04
Holocaust Oral History Und Das Lange Ende Der Zeitzeugenschaft written by Jan Taubitz and has been published by Wallstein Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-04 with History categories.
Wie überlebt man das Überleben? Zeitzeugeninterviews des Holocaust in ihrem historischen, institutionellen und medialen Kontext. Mehr als 70 Jahre nach Kriegsende wird eindringlicher denn je das Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft beschworen. Die Erinnerung an Krieg und Holocaust, so die Sorge, werde ohne die direkten Augenzeugen verblassen, sich in den endlosen Lauf der »kalten Geschichte" einreihen. Jan Taubitz zeigt, wie bereits vor mehr als 35 Jahren etliche Oral History Archive dieser Entwicklung mit der systematischen Aufnahme, Konservierung und Verbreitung zehntausender audio-visueller Interviews mit Überlebenden des Holocaust entgegentraten. Die Initiative ging von US-amerikanischen Museen, Archiven, Bibliotheken, Stiftungen und Graswurzelbewegungen aus. Somit drängen sich folgende Fragen auf: In welchem Verhältnis stehen die Zeugnisse zur amerikanischen Kultur sowie zu der von ihr hervorgebrachten Oral History? Wer waren die Hauptakteure? Welche Beziehungen lassen sich zu anderen, vor allem populären Darstellungen des Holocaust nachweisen? Wie wirkt sich der digitale Wandel auf die Zeugnisse aus? Und schließlich: Können die Holocaust Oral Histories das Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft tatsächlich überwinden?
Archiv F R Sozialgeschichte
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Author :
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Archiv F R Sozialgeschichte written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Social history categories.
Testimonial Montage
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Author : Sheila E. Jelen
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2024
Testimonial Montage written by Sheila E. Jelen and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with History categories.
Testimonial Montage: A Family of Israeli Holocaust Testimonies from the Cracow Ghetto Resistance explores interconnected testimonies of four Holocaust survivors who participated in the Cracow ghetto resistance. The author teases out the contours of personal narrative from the collective voice of this family of testimonies.
The Death Marches
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Author : Daniel Blatman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-03
The Death Marches written by Daniel Blatman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-03 with History categories.
Co-winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust Research From January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns and villages. Even in the bloody annals of the Nazi regime, this final death blow was unique in character and scope. In this first comprehensive attempt to answer the questions raised by this final murderous rampage, the author draws on the testimonies of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. Hunting through archives throughout the world, Daniel Blatman sets out to explain—to the extent that is possible—the effort invested by mankind’s most lethal regime in liquidating the remnants of the enemies of the “Aryan race” before it abandoned the stage of history. What were the characteristics of this last Nazi genocide? How was it linked to the earlier stages, the slaughter of millions in concentration camps? How did the prevailing chaos help to create the conditions that made the final murderous rampage possible? In its exploration of a topic nearly neglected in the current history of the Shoah, this book offers unusual insight into the workings, and the unraveling, of the Nazi regime. It combines micro-historical accounts of representative massacres with an overall analysis of the collapse of the Third Reich, helping us to understand a seemingly inexplicable chapter in history.