The Train Journey : Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust /
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 o...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2009.
©2009 |
| Series: | War and genocide ;
v. 13. |
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| Online Access: | Full text (Open Access) |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1: Introduction: a hidden Holocaust in trains
- ch. 2: Resettlement: deportees as the freight of the final solution
- ch. 3: Ghetto departures: the emplotment of experience
- ch. 4: Immobilization in "cattle cars"
- ch. 5: Sensory witnessing and railway shock: disorders of vision and experience
- ch. 6: Camp arrivals: the failed resettlement
- ch. 7: Conclusion: memory routes and destinations
- Epilogue: retelling train stories.