After the Holocaust : Jewish survivors in Germany after 1945 /: Jewish survivors in Germany after 1945. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eva Kolinsky.
• Other Names: Kolinsky, Eva
• Contents: Experiences of the holocaust and strategies of survival. Parameters and strategies of survival ; In their own words: narratives of holocaust survival ; The story of Max Jacobson: 'These were hard times and we had to comfort one another' ; The story of Hans Winterfeldt: 'I had been raised to do what the adults told me to' ; Bella Tovey's survival: 'We were good look Jewish women' ; The story of Alice Cahane: 'I cannot tell you the humiliation I felt' -- Unexpected challenges: liberating German concentration camps and caring for their survivors. Unplanned liberations and the shock discovery of conditions in German concentration camps ; Humanitarian challenges after liberation: three case studies -- The liberation of Buchenwald. Jews in Buchenwald ; The limits of care -- The liberation of Belsen. The Belsen challenge ; Jews in liberated Belsen -- The liberation of Dachau. A textbook case ; Exhibiting Dachau ; Survival and the place of Jews ; Klausner's list -- Beyond survival: in search of a normal life. 'The most immense piece of work': displace persons officer Albert A. Hutler ; Child survivors at Kloster Indersdorf ; Re-learning how to live: the story of Kurt Klappholz ; 'I was 19 years old and felt like 90': Anita Lasker-Wallfisch between survival and a future -- Until the gates open: waiting in Germany on the road to somewhere -- Breaking the stalemate: the Harrison report. What Harrison found ; The Palestine Jew -- 'What we have done since July': General Eisenhower's response to the Harrison report -- The making of a Jewish camp. Displaced living, September 1945 ; Cleanliness and self-esteem ; Tensions and divides ; The Landsberg elections ; The second rescue -- Remaking Jewish life in post-war Germany. Who is a German Jew? ; Numbers and demography -- Meanings of homecoming. Return to a different world ; The family is home ; No longer a home town ; Getting back without getting home. The onset of Jewish communities after the holocaust. Self-help and abandonment ; A problematic normalisation -- The remaking of the Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main: a case study. Jewish care: achievements and limitations ; The return of Frankfurt's Jews from Theresienstadt ; German bureaucracy and the special needs of survivors ; Material hardship as Jewish experience ; Displaced Jews and German Jews: diversities of needs and cultures ; Jewish committee versus Jewish community ; The committee's role in remaking Jewish life ; Promises and setbacks ; The eclipse of the Jewish committee ; Social normalisation, poverty and the remade Jewish community in Frankfurt am Main -- Jews and Germans: distance, distrust and new beginnings. Perceptions of Jews and Germans ; Problems of return and daily living -- Anti-semitism in Germany after the holocaust. Surveys and manifestations ; Pointing a finger at Jewish behaviour -- Jews and the black market: assumption and realities. The Stuttgart Raid ; Policing Jews in Germany ; Unfounded accusations ; Round-ups and searches -- A future for Jews in Germany? Stayers and goers ; 'There are Jews who live in this land': facing reality ; 'As long as conditions in Germany are not unfavourable': reasons for staying ; An identity 'Between all chairs' ; 'Fruitful symbiosis' or disillusionment? Jewish experiences with post-war Germany ; Scenarios for a Jewish future -- Epilogue. Refuge Germany ; Migration and the challenges of integration ; Jews in Germany: assumptions and identities -- Appendix -- Glossary -- List of archives.
• Publisher Details: London : Vintage Digital
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 940.53/18; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1945-1990; Holocaust survivors -- Germany; Jewish refugees -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Jews, East European -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Ethnic relations; Holocaust survivors; Jewish refugees; Jews; Jews, East European; Jews -- Social conditions; Überlebender; Judenvernichtung; HISTORY / Military / World War II; HISTORY / Holocaust; Second World War; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000; The Holocaust; Germany -- Ethnic relations; Germany; Deutschland; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781448113590; 1448113598
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