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After the Holocaust : Jewish survivors in Germany after 1945 / Eva Kolinsky.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London, [England] : Pimlico, 2004.Description: xv, 288 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1844133176 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS
Contents:
1. Experiences of the Holocaust and strategies of survival -- 2. Unexpected challenges : liberating German concentration camps and caring for their survivors -- 3. Beyond survival : in search of a normal life -- 4. Until the gates open : waiting in Germany on the road to somewhere -- 5. Remaking Jewish life in post-war Germany -- 6. Jews and Germans : distance, distrust and new beginnings.
Review: "Since there was no plan for liberation, these testimonies speak of struggle amid confusion and pain. As ambiguous regulations aimed to repatriate displaced Jews were put in place - while classifying German Jews as Germans without entitlement to additional food rations or other support - the normalisation of Jewish life after 1945 amounted to abandonment. And as Germans busied themselves with their own 'catastrophe' of defeat and with the reconstruction of German culture, Jews were left to depend on military and Jewish aid agencies, all pursuing their own, often conflicting, agendas. As Kolinsky shows, Germans remained divided from Jews even after liberation in their mutual struggle to re-build their lives."--BOOK JACKET.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A remarkable- and unique- account of German Jews returning to their homes after 1945

AFTER THE HOLOCAUST tells the story of life after liberation from the perspective of Jewish survivors working to rebuild their lives.Since there was no plan for liberation - no structure in place to help survivors settle once they were liberated - these testimonies speak of struggle amid confusion and pain. Ambiguous regulations aimed to repatriate displaced Jews and to confine them to camps were put forth while the classification of German Jews as Germans without entitlement to additional food rations or other support were also put in place. Thus, the normalisation of Jewish life after 1945 amounted to abandonment. And as Germans busied themselves with their own 'catastrophe' of defeat and with the reconstruction of German culture, Jews were left to depend on military and Jewish aid agencies, all pursuing their own, often conflicting, agendas.Jewish culture since the Holocaust incorporates the traumatic memory of the Holocaust as a collective and an individual experience. Yet it also incorporates the memory of how after liberation, Germans remained divided from Jews in their mutual struggle to re-build their lives.

"A Pimlico original"--Cover.

Includes index and bibliographical references.

1. Experiences of the Holocaust and strategies of survival -- 2. Unexpected challenges : liberating German concentration camps and caring for their survivors -- 3. Beyond survival : in search of a normal life -- 4. Until the gates open : waiting in Germany on the road to somewhere -- 5. Remaking Jewish life in post-war Germany -- 6. Jews and Germans : distance, distrust and new beginnings.

"Since there was no plan for liberation, these testimonies speak of struggle amid confusion and pain. As ambiguous regulations aimed to repatriate displaced Jews were put in place - while classifying German Jews as Germans without entitlement to additional food rations or other support - the normalisation of Jewish life after 1945 amounted to abandonment. And as Germans busied themselves with their own 'catastrophe' of defeat and with the reconstruction of German culture, Jews were left to depend on military and Jewish aid agencies, all pursuing their own, often conflicting, agendas. As Kolinsky shows, Germans remained divided from Jews even after liberation in their mutual struggle to re-build their lives."--BOOK JACKET.

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