The train journey : transit, captivity, and witnessing in the Holocaust / / Simone Gigliotti

• Autore: Gigliotti Simone
• Pubblicazione: Berghahn Books, 2009; New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2010; ©2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.5318
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons - Psychological aspects; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) - Psychological aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: History; Auschwitz concentration camp; Deportation; Stock car (rail); The Holocaust
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page-The Train Journey; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1-Introduction; Chapter 2-Resettlement; Chapter 3-Ghetto Departures; Chapter 4-Immobilization in ""Cattle Cars""; Chapter 5-Sensory Witnessing and Railway Shock; Chapter 6-Camp Arrivals; Chapter 7-Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis' genocidal vision of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the "Final Solution," Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: "How can railways be regarded as anything more than physical equipment that was used, when the time came, to transport the Jews from various cities to shooting grounds and gas chambers in Eastern Europe?" This book explores this question by analyzin
• Titolo autorizzato: The train journey
• ISBN: 1-78533-477-8; 1-282-62786-4; 9786612627866; 1-84545-927-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910213857103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: War and genocide.