The History of the Holocaust in Romania. By Jean Ancel. Trans. Yaffah Murciano. Ed. Leon Volovici, with the assistance of Miriam Caloianu. The Comprehensive History of the Holocaust. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press; Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2011. xviii, 699 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Maps. $50.00, hard bound.

Slavic Review ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-389
Author(s):  
Vladimir Solonari
Keyword(s):  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lincoln University ◽  
Comprehensive History ◽  
Yad Vashem

Havi Dreifuss (Ben-Sasson), Relations between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust: The Jewish Perspective, trans. Ora Cummings. Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2017. 304 pp.

2021 ◽  
pp. 264-266
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Valuable Addition ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Second World ◽  
Yad Vashem

This chapter examines Relations between Jews and Poles during the Holocaust (2017), an English translation of Havi Dreifuss' Hebrew-language doctoral dissertation (completed in 2005). This book is a unique scholarly examination of Polish–Jewish relations during the Holocaust from a perspective of Jewish views. It is not a history of Polish–Jewish relations per se but rather a history of changing Jewish perceptions of Poland and the Poles from the beginning to the end of the Second World War. Based largely on unpublished wartime diaries and writings preserved in Yad Vashem as well as some materials from other archives, it also contains wartime photographs and a sizable, 60-page appendix of documents. The appendix itself, a rich collection of previously unpublished wartime testimonies, makes Dreifuss' book a valuable addition to any Holocaust library.

The Encyclopedia of the Righteous Among the Nations: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust – Poland, Yad-Vashem, Jerusalem 2005

2005 ◽  
pp. 318-319
Author(s):  
Marta Janczewska
Keyword(s):  
The Holocaust ◽  
Yad Vashem

Stosunki polsko-żydowskie podczas drugiej wojny światowej – to temat w szczególny sposób złożony i obciążony emocjami. Nawet jednak w najbardziej zażartej dyskusji dotyczącej tej problematyki strony milkną, gdy przywołane zostaną sylwetki Sprawiedliwych wśród Narodów Świata. Od roku 1963, kiedy Instytut Yad Vashem rozpoczął przyznawanie tytułu Sprawiedliwego wśród Narodów Świata, odznaczenie to otrzymało ponad 20 000 osób. Ponad 5300 spośród nich (dane na koniec 2000 roku) to Polacy. Po tomach prezentujących Sprawiedliwych z Holandii i Francji, staraniem Instytutu Yad Vashem do rąk badaczy i szerokiego kręgu czytelników trafia właśnie dwutomowa encyklopedia poświęcona Polakom uhonorowanym tym zaszczytnym tytułem.Książka w porządku alfabetycznym prezentuje kolejnych Sprawiedliwych, opatrując każde nazwisko (lub kilka nazwisk, w zależności od liczby osób zaangażowanych w konkretny przypadek) rodzajem noty biograficznej. Noty mają charakter narracyjny i ogniskują się na historii ratowania. W krótkich z konieczności zapisach autorzy starali się jak najpełniej ukazać sylwetkę Sprawiedliwego, jego status ekonomiczny, wykształcenie, poglądy i związane z nimi motywacje ratowania, oraz możliwie wiernie przedstawić historię pomocy, wskazać jej przebieg i okoliczności. Wszystkie hasła osobowe Encyklopedii... powstały jedynie w oparciu o akta, jakie każdy Sprawiedliwy posiada w Archiwum Instytutu Yad Vashem. Wiele not opatrzonych jest zdjęciem bohatera. Rozbudowany wstęp o charakterze historyczno-socjologicznym pióra profesora Israela Gutmana, mapa oraz słownik podstawowych pojęć przybliżają nawet zupełnie niezorientowanemu w temacie czytelnikowi złożoność stosunków polsko-żydowskich przed drugą wojną światową oraz przedstawiają mu realia okupowanej Polski, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem reakcji Polaków na Holokaust. Autorzy Encyklopedii... zdecydowali się na prezentację sylwetek Sprawiedliwych, którzy zostali uhonorowani do końca 1999 roku. Jako że Instytut Yad Vashem kontynuuje nadawanie tytułu, spodziewany jest w przyszłości suplement, prezentujący kolejne postaci.

Out of the Whirlwind Reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Michael Berkowitz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Holocaust Literature ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mutual Accountability ◽  
Union College

This article argues that Albert Friedlander’s edited book, Out of the Whirlwind (1968), should be recognised as pathbreaking. Among the first to articulate the idea of ‘Holocaust literature’, it established a body of texts and contextualised these as a way to integrate literature – as well as historical writing, music, art and poetry – as critical to an understanding of the Holocaust. This article also situates Out of the Whirlwind through the personal history of Friedlander and his wife Evelyn, who was a co-creator of the book, his colleagues from Hebrew Union College, and the illustrator, Jacob Landau. It explores the work’s connection to the expansive, humanistic development of progressive Judaism in the United States, Britain and continental Europe. It also underscores Friedlander’s study of Leo Baeck as a means to understand the importance of mutual accountability, not only between Jews, but in Jews’ engagement with the wider world.

Searching for Justice After the Holocaust

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Bazyler ◽  
Kathryn Lee Boyd ◽  
Kristen L. Nelson ◽  
Rajika L. Shah
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Insurance Policies ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nazi Era ◽  
Property Restitution

The Nazis and their cohorts stole mercilessly from the Jews of Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, returning survivors had to navigate unclear and hostile legal paths to recover their stolen property from governments and neighbors who often had been complicit in their persecution and theft. While the return of Nazi-looted art and recent legal settlements involving dormant Swiss bank accounts, unpaid insurance policies and use of slave labor by German companies have been well-publicized, efforts by Holocaust survivors and heirs over the last 70 years to recover stolen land and buildings were forgotten. In 2009, 47 countries convened in Prague to deal with the lingering problem of restitution of prewar private, communal, and heirless property stolen during the Holocaust. The outcome was the Terezin Declaration on Holocaust Era Assets and Related Issues, aiming to “rectify the consequences” of the wrongful Nazi-era immovable property seizures. This book sets forth the legal history of Holocaust immovable property restitution in each of the Terezin Declaration signatory states. It also analyzes how each of the 47 countries has fulfilled the standards of the Guidelines and Best Practices of the Terezin Declaration. These standards were issued in 2010 in conjunction with the establishment of the European Shoah Legacy Institute (ESLI), a state-sponsored NGO created to monitor compliance. The book is based on the Holocaust (Shoah) Immovable Property Restitution Study commissioned by ESLI, written by the authors and issued in Brussels in 2017 before the European Parliament.

German Angst

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Biess
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Peace Movements ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fear And Anxiety ◽  
Relationship Of

German Angst analyzes the relationship of fear and democracy in postwar West Germany. While fear has historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, the book highlights the role of fear and anxiety in a democratizing society: these emotions undermined democracy and stabilized it at the same time. By taking seriously postwar Germans’ uncertainties about the future, the book challenges dominant linear and teleological narratives of postwar West German “success.” It highlights the prospective function of memories of war and defeat, of National Socialism and the Holocaust. Fears and anxieties derived from memories of a catastrophic past that postwar Germans projected into the future. Based on case studies from the 1940s to the present, the book provides a new interpretive synthesis of the Federal Republic. It tells the history of the Federal Republic as a series of recurring crises, in which specific fears and anxieties emerged, served a variety of political functions, and then again abated. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary insights of emotion studies, the book transcends the dichotomy of “reason” and “emotion.” Fear and anxiety were not exclusively irrational and dysfunctional but served important roles in postwar democracy. These emotions sensitized postwar Germans to the dangers of an authoritarian transformation, and they also served as the emotional engine of the environmental and peace movements. The book also provides an original analysis of the emotional basis of right-wing populism in Germany today, and it explores the possibilities of a democratic politics of emotion.

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