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UNINA9910451373303321 |
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Garbarini Alexandra <1973-> |
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Titolo |
Numbered days [[electronic resource] ] : diaries and the Holocaust / / Alexandra Garbarini |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-73447-0 |
9786611734473 |
0-300-13503-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 262 p.)) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Historical and theoretical considerations -- Historians and Martyrs -- News readers -- Family correspondents -- Reluctant messengers -- A stone under history's wheel. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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