Nazi persecution and postwar repercussions
Subtitle: the International Tracing Service archive and Holocaust research
By: Suzanne Brown-Fleming ; foreword by Paul A. Shapiro
Series: Documenting life and destruction : Holocaust sources in context -- 11; Documenting life and destruction -- 11.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781442251731
Subjects: Conservation and restoration; World War, 1939-1945; War victims; Archival resources; International Tracing Service; Concentration camp inmates
Description: "The International Tracing Service, one of the largest Holocaust-related archival repositories in the world, holds millions of documents that enrich our understanding of the many forms of persecution during the Nazi era and its continued repercussions ever since. Drawing on a selection of recently available documents from the archive, this ... volume provides new insights into human decision making in genocidal settings, the factors that drive it, and its far-reaching consequences."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The International Tracing Service holdings; title: "Our mothers, our fathers" : Lahnstein; title: Jewish voices; title: Hour zero : the year 1945; title: Imagining the refugee; title: Appendix I. The International Tracing Service holdings by subunit; title: Appendix II. Finding aids for the International Tracing Service holdings.