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UNINA9910782350303321 |
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Titolo |
Flares of memory [[electronic resource] ] : stories of childhood during the Holocaust / / edited by Anita Brostoff with Sheila Chamovitz |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-771306-8 |
0-19-028878-7 |
1-280-65533-X |
0-19-803171-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BrostoffAnita |
ChamovitzSheila |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
Jewish children in the Holocaust |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; Timeline of the Holocaust; Map of Concentration Camps in Europe; Preface; Introduction; I. SNAPSHOTS: JEWISH LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST; II. THE DESTRUCTION OF A SOCIETY; III. RUTHLESSNESS AS A SYSTEM; IV. THE LOTTERY OF DEATH AND LIFE; V. DISGUISE AS A WAY OF HIDING; VI. THE SUSTAINING POWER OF FAMILY LOVE; VII. THE VIRTUOUS AND THE VICIOUS; VIII. DESPERATE HEROISM; IX. EMERGENCE INTO LIGHT; X. THE AFTERMATH:REMEMBERING; ADDENDUM: SEEN WITH MY OWN EYES: STORIES BY AMERCIAN LIBERATORS; Biographies of Survivor-Authors; Photographs of Liberator-Authors; Author Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In a series of writing workshops at the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, survivors assembled recently to remember the pivotal moments in which their lives were irreparably changed by the Nazis. These ""flares of memory"" invoke lost childhoods, preserving the voices of over forty Jews from throughout Europe who experienced a history that cannot be forgotten--by them nor us. Including a timeline that chronicles the rise |
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