Resilience through the Holocaust and Soviet Labor Camps: My grandfather, Henry Glass (Szpigielglas)

Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein (eds.), The Holocaust and North Africa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019. 352 pp.

No Small Matter ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197577301.003.0016 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 263-264

Keyword(s):

North Africa ◽

Forced Labor ◽

Stanford University ◽

North African ◽

The Holocaust ◽

Labor Camps ◽

Almost All

This chapter discusses The Holocaust and North Africa (2019), a collection of fifteen essays edited by Aomar Boum and Sarah Abrevaya Stein. As this collection makes clear, the Holocaust did not target European Jewry exclusively. North African Jews of Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan, and Libyan origin were also subjected to German, French, or Italian occupation. While the focus is on North Africa, no attempt is made to remove it from the geographical margins of Holocaust history. Instead, almost all of the essays point to what was clearly unique to North Africa: the link between antisemitism and colonialism. The book is divided into four sections, with the first two parts examining the interface between the Holocaust and colonial North Africa. Topics covered include the application of race laws, the expropriation of Jewish property, and the internment of Jews in forced labor camps.

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Nieopiewani bohaterowie tragicznego pokolenia

Lekarz Wojskowy ◽

10.53301/lw.2106 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 99 (4) ◽

pp. 210-217

Author(s):

Christopher Swider

Keyword(s):

Documentary Film ◽

Psychiatric Care ◽

Medical Profession ◽

The United States ◽

Professor Emeritus ◽

Way Of Life ◽

75Th Anniversary ◽

80Th Anniversary ◽

The Holocaust ◽

Labor Camps

This is an expanded version of text presented during II International Conference of Association of Polish Physicians in Chicago on 9.30.2019 as a celebration of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of WWII and the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising [1]. The author, a son of Polish physicians, professor emeritus of Columbia College Chicago, shows – using his parents’ biographies as examples – the fight for humanity itself and for the humanistic values of the medical profession under both Nazi and communist totalitarian rule. He described the way of life of his father – a Polish commissioned military officer, a psychiatrist, prisoner of Soviet labor camps, participant of the Battle of Monte Cassino, organizer of programs of psychiatric care for Polish soldiers and veterans in Italy, England, and the United States. Likewise, he described the life of his mother, a pediatrician working for The Baudouin House in Warsaw, who was rescuing Jewish children from the Holocaust risking her own life. Forced to leave Warsaw, she and her 6‑year‑old daughter illegally crossed the borders of several countries to unite in Verona, Italy with her husband. Sharing a soldier’s life with him, she placed care for their expanding family above her own job as a physician. The publication contains copies of documents e.g. discovered by the author in Russia at the time of making his documentary film “Children in Exile” about the fate of Polish children sent to Soviet labor camps

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David Silberklang, Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2013. 497 pp.

10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0018 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Forced Labor ◽

First Year ◽

Nazi Party ◽

Archival Research ◽

Administrative Structure ◽

Population Movements ◽

German Occupation ◽

The Holocaust ◽

Labor Camps ◽

Regional History

This chapter reviews the book Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District (2013), by David Silberklang. Gates of Tears tells the story of the administrative structure of the Lublin district in Poland during the Holocaust. It explores forced population movements during the first year of German occupation, forced labor, resettlements and ghettos during 1940 and 1941, deportations, and the forced labor camps after 1942. Silberklang analyzes the interplay of center and periphery within the Nazi Party apparatus in the development of German policy toward the Jews, refracted through the multiple lenses of the civil administration and the security bureaucracy. The book, based on massive archival research, highlights the importance of regional history and local studies for historians of the Holocaust in Poland.

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PROPAGANDA REARTICULATION OF A CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION: THE CONCEPT OF THERESIENSTADT IN THE SERIES HOLOCAUST

Facta Universitatis Series Philosophy Sociology Psychology and History ◽

10.22190/fupsph1701063m ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 063

Author(s):

Ivana Milovanović

Keyword(s):

Senior Citizens ◽

The Other ◽

Concentration Camp ◽

Concentration Camps ◽

Nazi Concentration Camp ◽

American Television ◽

The Holocaust ◽

Labor Camps ◽

The Media ◽

Media Narratives

The most notorious Nazi extermination camps or death camps were Auschwitz, Belzec, Treblinka, etc. Apart from the death camps, the Nazis established concentration labor camps where they exploited the labor force. By its function, one of the unique concentration camps was Theresienstadt, which became a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in November 1941. In fact, Terezin was advertised as a spa center for wealthy senior citizens who were promised safety and luxury. Media articles on the topic of the Holocaust have become a significant part of the culture of remembrance. The American television mini-series Holocaust is one of the media narratives that deal with crimes against civilization and its premiere was in 1978. The concept of Theresienstadt in the series Holocaust corroborates the statement that this camp was used for the purpose of propaganda rearticulation of a crime against civilization and it reveals the hidden and repressed fear and horror underneath the smiling façade of Theresienstadt. The colorfulness of the exterior in the scenes which show Terezin, and on the other hand a horror interior, as well as everything that was happening behind the scenes expressed in the form of secret images of the artists, clearly emphasize the living conditions in Theresienstadt, as well as its role in Nazi propaganda.

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