One Family's Shoah [electronic resource] : Victimization, Resistance, Survival in Nazi Europe /
Lindenberger, H.author.
Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art criticism, One Family's Shoah suggests a new way of writing cultural history.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Deceiving: Nathan Lindenberger and the duplicities of Theresienstadt -- Memorializing: Betty Lindenberger Levi as representative Auschwitz victim -- Interpreting: whether it was foolish or heroic to fire-bomb the "Soviet paradise" -- Liberating: the Edelmann family exodus from occupied Denmark -- Surviving: those who made it out in time -- Compensating: legally, morally, politically -- Re-positioning: stages of Shoah-consciousness.
Deploying concepts of interpretation, liberation, and survival, esteemed literary critic Herbert Lindenberger reflects on the diverse fates of his family during the Holocaust. Combining public, family, and personal record with literary, musical, and art criticism, One Family's Shoah suggests a new way of writing cultural history.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
World War, 1939-1945.
Europe-History.
History, Modern.
European literature.
Ethnology.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
History of World War II and the Holocaust.
European History.
Modern History.
European Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.