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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451373303321

Autore

Garbarini Alexandra <1973->

Titolo

Numbered days [[electronic resource] ] : diaries and the Holocaust / / Alexandra Garbarini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006

ISBN

1-281-73447-0

9786611734473

0-300-13503-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 262 p.))

Disciplina

940.53/18072

Soggetti

Diaries - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Historiography

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Personal narratives - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Jews - Diaries - History and criticism

World War, 1939-1945 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Historical and theoretical considerations -- Historians and Martyrs -- News readers -- Family correspondents -- Reluctant messengers -- A stone under history's wheel.

Sommario/riassunto

As the Nazis swept across Europe during World War II, Jewish victims wrote diaries in which they grappled with the terror unfolding around them. Some wrote simply to process the contradictory bits of news they received; some wrote so that their children, already safe in another country, might one day understand what had happened to their parents; and some wrote to furnish unknown readers in the outside world with evidence against the Nazi regime.Were these diarists resisters, or did the process of writing make the ravages of the Holocaust even more difficult to bear? Drawing on an astonishing array of unpublished and published diaries from all over German-occupied Europe, historian Alexandra Garbarini explores the multiple roles that



diary writing played in the lives of these ordinary women and men. A story of hope and hopelessness, Numbered Days offers a powerful examination of the complex interplay of writing and mourning. And in these heartbreaking diaries, we see the first glimpses of a question that would haunt the twentieth century: Can such unimaginable horror be represented at all?