TY  - BOOK
ED  - Hodge, Freda
AB  - In this collection Freda Hodge retrieves early voices of Holocaust survivors. Men, women and children relate experiences of deportation and ghettoisation, forced labour camps and death camps, death marches and liberation. As Feliks Tych points out, such eye-witness accounts collected in the immediate post-war period constitute the most important body of Jewish documents pertaining to the history of the Holocaust. The freshness of memory makes these early voices profoundly different from, and historically more significant than, later recollections gathered in oral history programs. Carefully selected and painstakingly translated, these survivor accounts were first published between 1946 and 1948 in the Yiddish journal Fun Letzten Khurben (‘From the Last Destruction’) in postwar Germany, by refugees waiting in ‘Displaced Person’ camps, in the American zone of occupation, for the arrival of travel documents and visas. These accounts have not previously been available in English.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004335
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1100526422
KW  - History
KW  - Holocaust history
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/08d09459-c4f6-432f-b581-93a7beb016b1/1004335.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25753
PB  - Monash University Publishing
PY  - 2018-12-01
SN  - 9781925523881
TI  - Tragedy and Triumph : Early Testimonies of Jewish Survivors of World War II
ER  - 
