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    The Train Journey

    Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust

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    Author(s)
    Gigliotti, Simone
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    100273
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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 on the “Final Solution,” Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: “How can railways be regarded as anything more than physical equipment that was used, when the time came, to transport the Jews from various cities to shooting grounds and gas chambers in Eastern Europe?” This book explores the question by analyzing victims’ experiences at each stage of forced relocation: the round-ups and departures from the ghettos, the captivity in trains, and finally, the arrival at the camps. Utilizing a variety of published memoirs and unpublished testimonies, the book argues that victims experienced train journeys as mobile chambers, comparable in importance to fixed locations of persecution such as ghettos and camps.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31379
    Keywords
    History; Auschwitz concentration camp; Deportation; Stock car (rail); The Holocaust
    DOI
    10.26530/oapen_629151
    ISBN
    9781785334771
    OCN
    645101067
    Publisher
    Berghahn Books
    Publisher website
    https://berghahnbooks.com/
    Publication date and place
    2009-07-01
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 100273 - KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection
    Series
    War and Genocide,
    Classification
    The Holocaust
    Second World War
    Europe
    c 1940 to c 1949
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Auschwitz concentration camp - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp; Deportation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation; Stock car (rail) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_car_(rail); The Holocaust - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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