The memoir describes Regina Hoffman's (b. 1927) deportation from Czechoslovakia to Poland, the deaths of family members, her psychological trauma, internment in the ghetto in Khust, Ukraine, life in Auschwitz and her transfer to camps in Nuremberg, Germany, and Holešov (Holeshovitz), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), liberation, and immigration to the United States in 1948.

Harnessing the Holocaust presents the compelling story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French politics. Joan Wolf argues that from the Six-Day War through the trial of Maurice Papon in 1997-98, the Holocaust developed from a Jewish trauma into a metaphor for oppression and a symbol of victimization on a wide scale. Using scholarship from a range ...

The effects of the genocides of modern history--Rwanda, Armenia, Guatemala, the Holocauset, and countless others--have been well documented, but how do the experiences of female victims and perpetrators differ from those of men? In Women and Genocide, human rights advocates and scholars come together to argue that the memory of trauma is gendered and that women's voices and perspectives are key to ...

Myra Giberovitch, M.S.W., P.S.W. is an educator, author, professional speaker and mentor. She is an expert on the tools and techniques of strength-based practice as it applies to trauma and recovery. Born in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war, she is the daughter of Holocaust survivors from the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz who emigrated from Israel to Canada in the early 1950s, settling ...

"Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mother to come home. On that day, however, the sun and the earth melted together. My mother would not come home ..." Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent ...

"[This book] is the first cultural history of the 'witness to genocide' in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s, covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies ...

Recommendations -- Background: Historical patterns of conflict -- Conflict in 2003: widening the divide -- The Chadian connection -- Khartoum responds in force. -- Abuses in Darfur by government forces. Patterns of government attacks in Darfur: a policy of forced displacement -- Bombing of civilians in North Darfur -- Repeated raids in West and South Darfur -- The Janjaweed militia and links to the ...

"The Holocaust is much discussed, much memorialized, and much portrayed. But there are major aspects of its history that have been overlooked. Spanning the entirety of the Holocaust, this sweeping history deepens our understanding. Dan Stone - Director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London--reveals how the idea of "industrial murder" is incomplete: many were killed ...

"The Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive? This new and improved edition of Sources of the Holocaust brings together over 90 original Holocaust documents and testimonies to put the reader into direct contact with the genocide's human participants. ...

This book investigates the memory of the Holocaust in Sweden and concentrates on early initiatives to document and disseminate information about the genocide during the late 1940s until the early 1960s. As the first collection of testimonies and efforts to acknowledge the Holocaust contributed to historical research, judicial processes, public discussion, and commemorations in the universalistic Swedish ...

In 2011, 35 interview transcripts were deposited at the 20th Század Hangja Archive and Research Group. These include ten family group discussions, sometimes with two to four people, and several individual interviews recorded independently, i.e. without the involvement of other family members. The total length of the existing transcripts is approx. 1,800 typed pages. In the conversations, family stories ...

"Focusing on events in Rwanda, Armenia, and the former Yugoslavia as well as the Holocaust, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century investigates how historically- and culturally-specific ideas led to genocidal sexual violence. Expert contributors also consider how these ideas, in conjunction with issues relating to femininity, masculinity and understandings of gendered identities, contributed ...

[Ferenc Erős ](https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Er%C5%91s_Ferenc)(1946-2020) was a social psychologist, PHD in psychological sciences and doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In addition to his research work at the Psychological Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, he taught at the universities of Budapest, Pécs and Szeged. His main research areas were social traumatization, ...

Contrary to the view that Holocaust survivors have only recently begun to tell their stories due to a new flourishing culture of witnessing, writing on the Holocaust actually began at the time of the events and continued thereafter. Between 1945-49, 75 memoirs were published. Holocaust testimonies are as varied as the experiences of their authors. Most of the writers were eager to preserve the facts ...

STYVEN Dorien, Inventory of the archives of vzw Het Ondergedoken Kind and Amicale des Anciens de Jamoigne, Mechelen, 2019.

Bestandsbeschreibung Im Zuge der Auflösung der Bestandsgruppe Kleine Erwerbungen ist die Kl Erw 762 zur Sammlung ZSg 161 umgebildet worden. Die Sammlung besteht aus acht AE, eine AE wurde entnommen und zum Bestand B 363 Deutsche Psychoanalytische Gesellschaft (DPG) genommen. Die neue Signatur lautet B 363/15. Ein weitere Aktenband (fr. Kl Erw 762/9) fehlt ohne Hinweis. Die Benutzung war bis zum 1. ...

Karl and Max Horn were brothers, two of the sons of Benjamin and Elfriede (née Schreiber) Horn, originally of Vorst, Germany. The family was involved in agriculture, and in particular, had businesses related to cattle trading as well as a butcher shop. In addition to Karl and Max, the Horns had two other sons, Josef and Paul. At a young age, Max Horn (born 7 February 1897) left Vorst for Cologne, where ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00595 at Kazerne Dossin

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...