This series examines aspects of the two World Wars in detail. It looks at their origins, the battle fronts, life at home and in the war zones, the technical developments, the peace and the aftermath. Containing many contemporary photographs, this volume investigates the origins - covering the Treaty of Versailles, poverty and depression in Germany in the 1920s and 30s, the rise of Hitler to power and the Blitzkreig invasions of Poland, Belgium, France and later, Russia. It also looks at the role of Japan in bringing the USA into the war, the gradual turning of the tide to D-Day in June 1944 and the final Allied victory a year later. Stewart Ross has also written "A Saxon Farmer" and "Columbus and the Age of Exploration".

The Second World War (EVENTS OF YESTERYEAR) (English and French Edition)

Wieviorka, Annette

Pierre, Michel

Teen & Young Adult

Silver Burdett Pr

The Era of the Witness

What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, Annette Wieviorka seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question. She analyzes the conditions under which survivor testimonies have been produced, how they have been received over time, and how the testimonies shaped the construction of history and collective memory. Wieviorka discerns three successive phases in the evolution of the roles and images of the Holocaust witness. The first phase is marked by the testimony left by those who did not survive the Holocaust but managed nevertheless to record their experiences. The second, most important, phase is centered on the Eichmann trial, which for Wieviorka is the moment (1961–1962) when a broad cultural deafness to survivors' stories was replaced by the image of the witness as "bearer of history." The author follows the changing nature of the witness into a third phase, which she calls "the era of the witness." Especially concerned with the pedagogical and political uses to which survivor testimony has been put, Wieviorka examines factors that determine when and how survivor testimonies are incorporated into the larger narrative of the Holocaust, according it a privileged place in our understanding. By exploring the ways in which the Holocaust is remembered, The Era of the Witness also deepens our understanding of how testimony can help to define not only twentieth-century history but also more recent episodes of mass killing that are only now "becoming history."

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Cornell University Press

What is the role of survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? Today such recollections are considered among the most compelling and important historical sources we have, but this has not always been true. In The Era of the Witness, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, Annette Wieviorka seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question. She analyzes the conditions under which survivor testimonies have been produced, how they have been received over time, and how the testimonies shaped the construction of history and collective memory. 
Wieviorka discerns three successive phases in the evolution of the roles and images of the Holocaust witness. The first phase is marked by the testimony left by those who did not survive the Holocaust but managed nevertheless to record their experiences. The second, most important, phase is centered on the Eichmann trial, which for Wieviorka is the moment (1961–1962) when a broad cultural deafness to survivors' stories was replaced by the image of the witness as "bearer of history." The author follows the changing nature of the witness into a third phase, which she calls "the era of the witness." 
Especially concerned with the pedagogical and political uses to which survivor testimony has been put, Wieviorka examines factors that determine when and how survivor testimonies are incorporated into the larger narrative of the Holocaust, according it a privileged place in our understanding. By exploring the ways in which the Holocaust is remembered, The Era of the Witness also deepens our understanding of how testimony can help to define not only twentieth-century history but also more recent episodes of mass killing that are only now "becoming history."

Auschwitz Explained to My Child

How does one broach with a child or young adult a subject like the Holocaust, the full magnitude and horror of which are difficult even for many adults to comprehend? This book, in conversational format, offers an ideal way to present this difficult subject to a young audience. At the book's opening, the author and her daughter Mathilde meet Berthe, a friend of the author's, on the beach, where they see the number that was tattooed on Berthe's arm at Auschwitz. The book, following Wieviorka's answers to her daughter's nearly eighty questions, provides a concise yet unsentimental and unsparing history lesson that explains Hitler's rise to power and the rise of anti-Semitism, the creation of ghettos and concentration camps (not only Auschwitz), the genocide of the Jews, the "Final Solution," Jewish and other resistance, and the guilt of the Germans.

Children's Books

Da Capo Press

The true story of Wally, a young Jewish woman who survived the dark era of World War II, through both a personal and historical lens. At only six months old, Wally's entire Jewish family moves from their home country of Poland to France, fleeing the Nazi regime as it rolls across Europe. Their new life is interrupted in 1939 when Germany invades Poland, overtaking France in 1940. As the Jewish people of France begin to experience the effects of their invaders, the threat becomes more clear to the family, leading Wally's parents to make difficult choices for their children's safety. Sent to the supposedly safe Alps with her sisters as the rest of the family stays behind in Paris, Wally's daily life is reduced to a cycle of survival and fear, with the occasional carefree happiness that only young people can experience. But as the war draws to a close, the question remains -- Will they have a family to return to? Based on the true story of Wally Aviam, Winter '43: A Young Girl's Story follows Wally's life and the parallel historical events of the time, as recounted to Valérie Villieu and visually captured by Belgian artist Antoine Houcke using a blend of artistic mediums, grounded in images historical imagery. Includes a forward from historian Annette Wieviorka.

Winter '43: From Wally's Memories

Comics & Graphic Novels

Villieu, Valérie

Graphic Novels

Life Drawn

Auschwitz expliqué à ma fille

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

SEUIL

Enquête sur le parcours et les publications qui ont jalonné la carrière de l'historienne Annette Wieviorka, spécialiste de la Shoah, du communisme, et son rapport à l'identité juive. Ces entretiens dressent aussi un panorama de l'historiographie de la mémoire du génocide.

L'Heure d'exactitude: Histoire, mémoire, témoignagne. Entretiens avec Séverine Nikel (Itinéraires du savoir) (French Edition)

ALBIN MICHEL

L'ère du témoin (French Edition)

PLON

L'ère du témoin

PLURIEL

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