Liberation Reconsidered

New Approaches to the End of the Holocaust in Europe

Elizabeth Anthony, Kateřina Králová, Andrea Löw (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2026
Wallstein Verlag
9783835360518 (ISBN)

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Liberation as a process shaped by Holocaust survivors` distinct historical and geographic circumstances.The liberation of the camps at the end of World War II has often been portrayed as a singular rapturous juncture. The authors in this volume collectively underscore the necessity of reconceptualizing liberation in a manner that transcends triumphalist narratives, foregrounding instead the inherent complexity, variability, and frequently tragic limitations confronted by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the »aftermath« of genocide. They demonstrate how local conditions, political structures, and social relationships shaped survivors` experiences of the war`s end and their attempts to rebuild their lives.Includes:Monika Flaschka: That`s what women are for, just to rape them: Soviet Rape of Holocaust SurvivorsKaterina Králová: The Fluidity of Liberation: Jewish Survivors in Postwar GreeceJohannes Meerwald: There is no feeling of newfound freedom - Jewish Prisoners in Southern Bavaria at LiberationDer Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache.

Elizabeth Anthony, born 1971, is a historian and the director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her book, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust, was a commended finalist for the Ernst Fraenkel Prize.

Kateřina Králová, born 1976, is a professor of contemporary history and a memory studies scholar at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague, where she is the leader of the Research Centre for Memory Studies. She has edited and authored many publications, including her 2025 book Homecoming, Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-1946 (Brandeis University Press).

Andrea Löw ist seit 2025 Leiterin des Zentrums für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte in München und Lehrbeauftragte am Historischen Institut der Universität Mannheim.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.6.2026
Reihe/Serie	European Holocaust Studies (hg. i.A. des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte von Frank Bajohr, Andrea Löw und Andreas Wirsching) ; 7
Verlagsort	Göttingen
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	1945 • 2.Weltkrieg • Bavaria • Bayern • Concentration Camp • Czechoslovak • Erinnerung • Fotografie • Frauen • Gedächtnis • Gesellschaft • Greece • Griechenland • Holocaust • Juden • KZ • Mieter • Narrativ • Nationalsozialismus • Photograph • Schweden • Sexuelle Gewalt • Shoah • sowjetisch • Survivor • Sweden • tenan • Transkarpathien • Tschechisch • Überlebende • Ukraine • Vergewaltigung • Versöhnung • Wien • World War II
ISBN-13	9783835360518 / 9783835360518
Zustand	Neuware