LEADER 03553nam 2200661 450 001 9910792948703321 005 20191118111955.0 010 $a1-350-98560-0 010 $a1-78672-194-5 010 $a1-78673-194-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350985605 035 $a(CKB)3710000001387639 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4862420 035 $a(OCoLC)1128164298 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350985605 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat50985605 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001387639 100 $a20191118d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBritish POWs and the Holocaust $ewitnessing the Nazi atrocities /$fRussell Wallis 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon, England :$cI.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd,$d2019. 210 2$a[London, England] :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2019. 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) 225 1 $aInternational library of twentieth century history ;$v97 311 $a1-350-15216-1 311 $a1-78453-503-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index. 327 $aBritish POWs : what they saw and understood -- British POWs and Jewish POWs : a common experience? -- Jewish POWs and Jewish inmates -- The reaction of British POWs to the outworking of Nazi anti-Jewish policies -- Comparisons -- The limits of POW testimony. 330 8 $aIn the network of Nazi camps across wartime Europe, prisoner of war institutions were often located next to the slave camps for Jews and Slavs; so that British PoWs across occupied Europe, over 200,000 men, were witnesses to the holocaust. The majority of those incarcerated were aware of the camps, but their testimony has never been fully published. Here, using eye-witness accounts held by the Holocaust Educational Trust, Russell Wallis rewrites the history of British prisoners and the Holocaust during the Second World War. He uncovers the histories of men such as Cyril Rofe, an Anglo-Jewish PoW who escaped from a work camp in Upper Silesia and fled eastwards towards the Russian lines, recounting his shattering experiences of the so-called 'bloodlands' of eastern Poland. Wallis also shows how and why the knowledge of those in the armed forces was never fully publicised, and how some PoW accounts were later exaggerated or fictionalised. British PoWs and the Holocaust will be an essential new oral history of the holocaust and an extraordinary insight into what was known and when about the greatest crime of the 20th century. 410 0$aInternational library of twentieth century history ;$v97. 517 3 $aBritish prisoners of war and the Holocaust 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 606 $aJewish soldiers$zGreat Britain 606 $aPrisoners of war$zGermany 606 $aPrisoners of war$zGreat Britain 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJews 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German 606 $2The Holocaust 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). 615 0$aJewish soldiers 615 0$aPrisoners of war 615 0$aPrisoners of war 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xJews. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, German. 676 $a940.53/18 700 $aWallis$b Russell$01477946 801 0$bYDX 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792948703321 996 $aBritish POWs and the Holocaust$93729503 997 $aUNINA