Liberation Reconsidered
New Approaches to the End of the Holocaust in Europe
Herausgegeben von Elizabeth Anthony, Kateřina Králová and Andrea LöwReihe: European Holocaust Studies; Bd. 7
Liberation as a process shaped by Holocaust survivors` distinct historical and geographic circumstances.
The liberation of the camps at the end of World War II has often been portrayed as a singular rapturous juncture. The authors in this volume collectively underscore the necessity of reconceptualizing liberation in a manner that transcends triumphalist narratives, foregrounding instead the inherent complexity, variability, and frequently tragic limitations confronted by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the »aftermath« of genocide. They demonstrate how local conditions, political structures, and social relationships shaped survivors` experiences of the war`s end and their attempts to rebuild their lives.
Includes:
Monika Flaschka: That`s what women are for, just to rape them: Soviet Rape of Holocaust Survivors
Katerina Králová: The Fluidity of Liberation: Jewish Survivors in Postwar Greece
Johannes Meerwald: There is no feeling of newfound freedom – Jewish Prisoners in Southern Bavaria at Liberation
Der Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache.
The liberation of the camps at the end of World War II has often been portrayed as a singular rapturous juncture. The authors in this volume collectively underscore the necessity of reconceptualizing liberation in a manner that transcends triumphalist narratives, foregrounding instead the inherent complexity, variability, and frequently tragic limitations confronted by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the »aftermath« of genocide. They demonstrate how local conditions, political structures, and social relationships shaped survivors` experiences of the war`s end and their attempts to rebuild their lives.
Includes:
Monika Flaschka: That`s what women are for, just to rape them: Soviet Rape of Holocaust Survivors
Katerina Králová: The Fluidity of Liberation: Jewish Survivors in Postwar Greece
Johannes Meerwald: There is no feeling of newfound freedom – Jewish Prisoners in Southern Bavaria at Liberation
Der Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache.
Elizabeth Anthony
Kateřina Králová
Andrea Löw
Elizabeth Anthony, born 1971, is a historian and the director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her book, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust, …
mehrKateřina Králová
Kateřina Králová, born 1976, is a professor of contemporary history and a memory studies scholar at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague, where she is the leader of the Research Centre for Memory Studies. She has edited and authored …
mehrAndrea Löw
Andrea Löw ist seit 2025 Leiterin des Zentrums für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte in München und Lehrbeauftragte am Historischen Institut der Universität Mannheim.
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