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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213857103321

Autore

Gigliotti Simone

Titolo

The train journey : transit, captivity, and witnessing in the Holocaust / / Simone Gigliotti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berghahn Books, 2009

New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2010

©2009

ISBN

1-78533-477-8

1-282-62786-4

9786612627866

1-84545-927-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Studies on War and Genocide ; ; Volume 13

Disciplina

940.5318

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons - Psychological aspects

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title page-The Train Journey; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-Resettlement; Chapter 3-Ghetto Departures; Chapter 4-Immobilization in ""Cattle Cars""; Chapter 5-Sensory Witnessing and Railway Shock; Chapter 6-Camp Arrivals; Chapter 7-Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis' genocidal vision of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the "Final Solution," Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: "How can railways be regarded as anything more than physical equipment that was used, when the time came, to transport the Jews from various cities to shooting grounds and gas chambers in Eastern Europe?" This book explores this question by analyzin