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Record Nr.

UNISA996328045103316

Autore

Redlich Shimon

Titolo

Life in transit [[electronic resource] ] : Jews in postwar Łódź, 1945-1950 / / Shimon Redlich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brighton, Mass., : Academic Studies Press, 2010

ISBN

1-61811-688-6

1-61811-008-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Studies in Russian and Slavic literatures, cultures and history

Disciplina

940.53/18092

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Soggetti

Jews - Poland - Łódź - History - 20th century

Holocaust survivors - Poland - Łódź - History - 20th century

Holocaust survivors - Israel - Travel - Poland

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

Biographies

Łódź (Poland) Biography

Łódź (Poland) Ethnic relations

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

My Łódź memories -- Postwar Lodz --  Jews in postwar Łódź -- Friends, acquaintances, strangers -- Surviving : war: the first days. The Eastward Trek. Inside Russia.  In the Soviet South. Returning to Poland. In the Ghettos. In the camps. On the Aryan Side -- The Zionists -- The others.

Sommario/riassunto

Life in Transit is the long-awaited sequel to Shimon Redlich's widely acclaimed Together and Apart in Brzezany, in which he discussed his childhood during the War and the Holocaust. Life in Transit tells the story of his adolescence in the city of Lodz in postwar Poland. Redlich's personal memories are placed within the wider historical context of Jewish life in Poland and in Łódź during the immediate postwar years. Lodz in the years 1945-1950 was the second-largest city in the country and the major urban center of the Jewish population. Redlich's research based on conventional sources and numerous interviews indicates that although the survivors still lived in the shadow of the



Holocaust, postwar Jewish Lodz was permeated with a sense of vitality and hope.