Collect and record!
Subtitle: Jewish Holocaust documentation in early postwar Europe
By: Laura Jockusch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199764556
Subjects: Historiography; Collective memory; History and criticism; Holocaust survivors; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Memorial books (Holocaust); Personal narratives; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early chroniclers of the Holocaust: Jewish historical commissions and documentation centers in the aftermath of the Second World War; title: Khurbn-forshung: history writing as a Jewish response to catastrophe; title: Writing French Judaism's "book of martyrdom": Holocaust documentation in liberated France; title: Writing Polish Jewry's "greatest national catastrophe": Holocaust documentation in Communist Poland; title: Writing history on packed suitcases: Holocaust documentation in the Jewish displaced persons camps of Germany, Austria, and Italy; title: History writing as reconstruction: the beginnings of Holocaust research from the perspective of its victims.