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Violinist in Auschwitz
Jacques Stroumsa: Preface to the English edition Professor Dr. Erhard Roy Wiehn from the University of Konstanz and editor of an important collection of books about the Shoah, has asked me to write a preface for the English edition of my book, Violinist in Auschwitz. The experience acquired in Germany during my lectures at Gymnasia (high schools) in Berlin and neighboring Potsdam in 1993 and 1994 gave me a number of important insights which I would like to share with the English-speaking public. The Nazi concentration camps were intended to completely destroy the human personality and to reduce it to a number tattooed on the skin, like animals in a slaughterhouse. The questions that people a...
Hitler's Slaves
During World War II at least 13.5 million people were employed as forced labourers in Germany and across the territories occupied by the German Reich. Most came from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldavia, the Baltic countries, France, Poland and Italy. Among them were 8.4 million civilians working for private companies and public agencies in industry, administration and agriculture. In addition, there were 4.6 million prisoners of war and 1.7 million concentration camp prisoners who were either subjected to forced labour in concentration or similar camps or were ‘rented out’ or sold by the SS. While there are numerous publications on forced labour in National Socialist Germany during World War II, this publication combines a historical account of events with the biographies and memories of former forced labourers from twenty-seven countries, offering a comparative international perspective.
The Last Consolation Vanished
A unique and haunting first-person Holocaust account by Zalmen Gradowski, a Sonderkommando prisoner killed in Auschwitz. On October 7, 1944, a group of Jewish prisoners in Auschwitz obtained explosives and rebelled against their Nazi murderers. It was a desperate uprising that was defeated by the end of the day. More than four hundred prisoners were killed. Filling a gap in history, The Last Consolation Vanished is the first complete English translation and critical edition of one prisoner’s powerful account of life and death in Auschwitz, written in Yiddish and buried in the ashes near Crematorium III. Zalmen Gradowski was in the Sonderkommando (special squad) at Auschwitz, a Jewish priso...
Greece in Modern Times
This complete and annotated bibliography is the largest and most comprehensive of works published in English about Greece, its people, and modern times.
Music and Manipulation
Since the beginning of human civilization, music has been used as a device to control social behavior, where it has operated as much to promote solidarity within groups as hostility between competing groups. Music is an emotive manipulator that influences attitude, motivation and behavior at many levels and in many contexts. This volume is the first to address the social ramifications of music’s behaviorally manipulative effects, its morally questionable uses and control mechanisms, and its economic and artistic regulation through commercialization, thus highlighting not only music’s diverse uses at the social level but also the ever-fragile relationship between aesthetics and morality.
The Holocaust in Greece
This new account of the Holocaust in Greece elaborates on the involvement of Christian society in the persecution of Jews.
Auschwitz-Birkenau in der Edition Schoáh und Judaica
AUSCHWITZ ist das unikale Synonym für die Holocaust-Schoáh, die Holocaust-Katastrophe. In unserer Edition Schoáh und Judaica kommt Auschwitz-Birkenau mehr als 30 Mal vor; es lag also nahe, diese Publikationen einmal anhand von Vorworten zusammenzufassen, die sich über einen Zeitraum von 30 Jahren erstrecken und somit einmal mehr darauf aufmerksam zu machen. Die vorliegende Schrift zu dem Ort, den Wieslaw Kielar Anus Mundi (1982) nannte, muss sein, auch wenn es zu diesem Thema schon zahllose Publikationen gibt; auch in unserer Edition Schoáh und Judaica finden sich weitere Bücher in denen Auschwitz-Birkenau vorkommt. "Auschwitz-Birkenau war das größte Lager, das auf polnischem Boden e...
El retorn dels Bassat
Cosint narració, testimoni i reflexió literària, El retorn dels Bassat és un fil que ressegueix l'esplendor i la tragèdia dels jueus del Vell Continent. I, al capdavall, la història de la mateixa Europa. Un viatge a un món ja desaparegut, trenat per tots els confins de la Mediterrània de la mà de Vicenç Villatoro. En la vida de Lluís Bassat, un dels publicistes més prestigiosos del món, conflueixen dues famílies errants i molts viatges a través dels segles. Els Bassat, sefardites que, després d'haver de marxar d'Espanya al segle XIV, recorren durant el XIX i el XX Bulgària,Turquia, Àustria, Alemanya i França, abans de tornar a Espanya. Els Coen, jueus romaniotes establerts a l'illa grega de Corfú, també han d'emigrar durant els segles XIX i XX a Itàlia i França, abans que un dels seus membres arribi a Barcelona l'any 1905. Vicenç Villatoro, de la mà de Lluís Bassat, indaga en aquest periple extraordinari del retorn a Sefarad, i ens transporta a un món ja desaparegut, trenat per tots els confins de la Mediterrània.
