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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810063403321

Autore

Cole Tim

Titolo

Traces of the Holocaust : journeying in and out of the ghettos / / Tim Cole

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum, 2011

ISBN

1-283-12965-5

9786613129659

1-4411-9711-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (188 p.)

Disciplina

940.53/185

940.531809439

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Hungary - History

Jewish ghettos - Germany - History - 20th century

Jews - Hungary - Social conditions - 20th century

Germany Ethnic relations History 20th century

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

pt. 1. Places and spaces : journeys to and from the ghetto -- pt. 2. People's stories : narratives of ghettoization and deportation.

Sommario/riassunto

The universe began shrinking,' wrote Elie Wiesel of his Holocaust experiences in Hungary, 'first we were supposed to leave our towns and concentrate in the larger cities. Then the towns shrank to the ghetto, and the ghetto to a house, the house to a room, the room to a cattle car...' Adopting an innovative multi-perspectival approach framed around a wide variety of material traces from receipts to maps, name lists to photographs Tim Cole tells stories of journeys into and out of Hungarian ghettos. These stories of the perpetrators who oversaw ghettoization and deportation, the bystanders who w