Surviving the Holocaust

Surviving the Holocaust
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 279
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781136948893
ISBN-13 : 1136948899
Rating : 4/5 (899 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Surviving the Holocaust by : Ronald Berger

Download or read book Surviving the Holocaust written by Ronald Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-08-23 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, including the infamous camp at Auschwitz, as well as a horrific winter death march; while the other brother, the author’s uncle, survived outside the camps by passing as a Catholic among anti-Semitic Poles, including a group of anti-Nazi Polish Partisans, eventually becoming an officer in the Soviet army. As an exemplary "theorized life history," Surviving the Holocaust applies concepts from life course theory to interpret the trajectories of the brothers’ lives, enhancing this approach with insights from agency-structure and collective memory theory. Challenging the conventional wisdom that survival was simply a matter of luck, it highlights the prewar experiences, agentive decision-making and risk-taking, and collective networks that helped the brothers elude the death grip of the Nazi regime. Surviving the Holocaust also shows how one family’s memory of the Holocaust is commingled with the memories of larger collectivities, including nations-states and their institutions, and how the memories of individual survivors are infused with collective symbolic meaning.


Surviving the Holocaust Related Books

Surviving the Holocaust
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Ronald Berger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-23 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s fat
Surviving the Angel of Death
Language: en
Pages: 154
Authors: Eva Kor
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-13 - Publisher: Tanglewood Press

GET EBOOK

Describes the life of Eva Mozes and her twin sister Miriam as they were interred at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust, where Dr. Josef Menge
Surviving the Hell of Auschwitz and Dachau
Language: en
Pages: 114
Authors: Leslie Schwartz
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

GET EBOOK

Leslie Schwartz, born in Hungary in 1930, is a teenage survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau. He lost his entire immediate family in the Holocaust. His lifelong sear
Witness to Annihilation
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Samuel Drix
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03 - Publisher: Potomac Books

GET EBOOK

"Rich in detail . . . an important contribution to the literature of the Holocaust," Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author of "Night"
Two who Survived
Language: en
Pages: 179
Authors: M. Lee Connolly
Categories: Holocaust survivors
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

"Chronicles the true story of two children from different worlds: a city boy and a country girl. When the persecution of Jews began in the 1940s, both were pluc