Writing the Holocaust provides students and teachers with an accessibly written overview of the key themes and major theoretical developments which continue to inform the nature of historical writing on the Holocaust. Holocaust studies is at a paradox: while historians of the Holocaust defend it as a legitimate and well-defined area of research, they write against a complex political and ideological background that undermines any claim for it as a normative field of historical study. Writing the Holocaust offers a lucid inquiry into this complex field by demonstrating the impact of current theories from the humanities and social sciences upon the treatment of Holocaust studies.

Writing the Holocaust (Writing History)

History

Dreyfus, Jean-Marc

Langton, Daniel

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Bloomsbury Academic

Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944

On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from the concentration camp at Drancy to the Lévitan furniture store building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of three satellite camps (Lévitan, Austerlitz, Bassano) in Paris. Between July 1943 and August 1944, nearly eight hundred prisoners spent a few weeks to a year in one of these buildings, previously been used to store furniture, and were subjected to forced labor. Although the history of the persecution and deportation of France’s Jews is well known, the three Parisian satellite camps have been subjected to the silence of both memory and history. This lack of attention by the most authoritative voices on the subject can perhaps be explained by the absence of a collective memory or by the marginal status of the Parisian detainees - the spouses of Aryans, wives of prisoners of war, half-Jews. Still, the Parisian camps did, and continue to this day, lack simple and straightforward descriptions. This book is a much needed study of these camps and is witness to how, sixty years after the events, expressing this memory remains a complex, sometimes painful process, and speaking about it a struggle.

GENSBURGER, Sarah

Europe

Berghahn Books

<p> On 18 July 1943, one-hundred and twenty Jews were transported from the concentration camp at Drancy to the L�vitan furniture store building in the middle of Paris. These were the first detainees of three satellite camps (L�vitan, Austerlitz, Bassano) in Paris. Between July 1943 and August 1944, nearly eight hundred prisoners spent a few weeks to a year in one of these buildings, previously been used to store furniture, and were subjected to forced labor. Although the history of the persecution and deportation of France's Jews is well known, the three Parisian satellite camps have been subjected to the silence of both memory and history. This lack of attention by the most authoritative voices on the subject can perhaps be explained by the absence of a collective memory or by the marginal status of the Parisian detainees - the spouses of Aryans, wives of prisoners of war, half-Jews. Still, the Parisian camps did, and continue to this day, lack simple and straightforward descriptions. This book is a much needed study of these camps and is witness to how, sixty years after the events, expressing this memory remains a complex, sometimes painful process, and speaking about it a struggle.</p>

<p>"Conçue dans un esprit nationaliste, la collection Goering visait à exalter la pureté et la grandeur de l'art allemand. Elle finit en un odieux trophée de chasse, issu de la spoliation crapuleuse des joyaux de l'art européen. Les oeuvres d'art ne doivent jamais être des proies. Elles constituent le bien commun de l'humanité. Cette vérité est intemporelle : la publication de cet ouvrage est une occasion de le rappeler." Laurent FabiusRécemment extrait des archives du Quai d'Orsay, le Catalogue Goering est un document exceptionnel. Il s'agit de la liste complète des tableaux qui formèrent la collection rassemblée par le numéro deux du nazisme dans sa propriété de Carinhall, non loin de Berlin. Habilement conseillé par des historiens d'art, Goering profita de son pouvoir sans limites, de l'immense fortune qu'il accumula par la persécution et l'assassinat des Juifs pour assouvir sa passion de l'art et son goût pour la peinture occidentale, les grands artistes flamands du XVIIe siècle, les peintures allemandes du XVIIe siècle, mais aussi l'art classique français et italien. A la fin de la guerre, une partie des oeuvres fut retrouvée par les troupes américaines et le gouvernement français tenta de récupérer celles qui avaient été pillées en France. Rose Valland, attachée de conservation au musée du jeu de Paume, oeuvra sans répit à la mission de recherches, aux côtés des Monuments Men. Le Catalogue Goering raconte, à travers l'inventaire des uvres volées, l'histoire de leur collecte puis la recherche des propriétaires après-guerre - tous n'ont pas encore été retrouvés. L'historien Jean-Marc Dreyfus renoue ici les fils de l'enquête en même temps que les équipes des Archives diplomatiques décryptent cet étonnant catalogue.</p>

Le catalogue Goering

Flammarion

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Writing the Holocaust (Writing History)

Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944

Nazi Labour Camps in Paris: Austerlitz, Lévitan, Bassano, July 1943-August 1944

Le catalogue Goering