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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785688203321

Autore

Fraser David

Titolo

Daviborshch's cart [[electronic resource] ] : narrating the Holocaust in Australian war crimes trials / / David Fraser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2010

ISBN

1-283-05104-4

9786613051042

0-8032-3438-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 p.)

Disciplina

341.6/90268

Soggetti

War crime trials - Australia

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Ukraine

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

Introduction : the long and winding road from Ukraine to Australia -- History, war crimes, and law in Ukraine -- A brief political and legal history of Australia and Nazi war criminals -- Law and history in Australian war crimes trials : Ukrainian foresters, the Shoah, and the Polyukhovich case -- Mikolay Berezowsky : the case of "The witness who knew too much" -- The story of Daviborshch's cart : law, history, truth, and the Holocaust in Ukraine -- Translating law, translating history, in Australian war crimes trials -- Telling stories about the Shoah : perpetrators, victims, and the politics of Australian identity in The Hand That Signed The Paper -- Law, memory, and justice : the Australian experience.

Sommario/riassunto

In the spring of 1942, Nazi forces occupying the Ukraine launched a wave of executions targeting the region's remaining Jewish communities. These mass shootings were open, public, and intimate. Although the victims themselves could never testify against their killers, many eyewitnesses could and did identify the perpetrators.