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Using Diaries to Understand the Final Solution in Poland
Miranda Walston Witnessing Extermination: Using Diaries to Understand the Final Solution in Poland Honours Thesis By: Miranda Walston Supervisor: Dr. Lauren Rossi 1 Miranda Walston Introduction The Holocaust spanned multiple years and states, occurring in both German-occupied countries and those of their collaborators. But in no one state were the actions of the Holocaust felt more intensely than in Poland. It was in Poland that the Nazis constructed and ran their four death camps– Treblinka, Sobibor, Chelmno, and Belzec – and created combination camps that both concentrated people for labour, and exterminated them – Auschwitz and Majdanek.1 Chelmno was the first of the death camps, established in 1941, while Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec were created during Operation Reinhard in 1942.2 In Poland, the Nazis concentrated many of the Jews from countries they had conquered during the war. As the major killing centers of the “Final Solution” were located within Poland, when did people in Poland become aware of the level of death and destruction perpetrated by the Nazi regime? While scholars have attributed dates to the “Final Solution,” predominantly starting in 1942, when did the people of Poland notice the shift in the treatment of Jews from relocation towards physical elimination using gas chambers? Or did they remain unaware of such events? To answer these questions, I have researched the writings of various people who were in Poland at the time of the “Final Solution.” I am specifically addressing the information found in diaries and memoirs. Given language barriers, this thesis will focus only on diaries and memoirs that were written in English or later translated and published in English.3 This thesis addresses twenty diaries and memoirs from people who were living in Poland at the time of the “Final Solution.” Most of these diaries (fifteen of twenty) were written by members of the intelligentsia. -
Parkes Body (New).Qxd
2003-2004 The Parkes Institute Annual Report Contents 2 Report of the Head of the Parkes Institute, Dr Sarah Pearce 4 Outreach 4 AHRB Parkes Centre for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations 5 Conferences, lectures and seminars in the Parkes Institute 6 Income 7 Postgraduate Studies in Jewish History and Culture 8 Reports by Members of the Parkes Institute 15 Parkes Library report by Jenny Ruthven, Parkes Librarian 15 Special Collections report by Dr Chris Woolgar, Head of Special Collections, the Hartley Library, University of Southampton 18 Publications and papers by members of the Parkes Institute 23 Members of the Management Committee of the Parkes Institute 24 Members of the Board of Studies of the Parkes Institute 24 Fellows of the Parkes Institute 24 Honorary Fellows of the Parkes Institute The ParkesAnn Instituteual Repor Annt ual2003-2004 Report | 1 The Parkes Institute | The University of Southampon The length of this report is testimony to this year's remarkable range of developments and activities connected to the Parkes Library and Special Collections archive for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. It has been a spectacular year of building for the future, with the completion of new housing for the library and archive, the arrival of new colleagues to lead research in new fields, and the appointment of our first administrator in the Parkes Institute. We are delighted to announce that in June 2004 the University’s Hartley Library opened the doors of its new Special Collections accommodation, in which the Parkes Library and related archives are housed, to its first readers. -
25 Years on 1984–2009
April 2009 Jewish Holocaust Centre 25 years on 1984 –2009 Registered by Australia Post. Publication No. VBH 7236 JHC Board: The Jewish Holocaust Centre is dedicated to the memory of the six million Jews President: Pauline Rockman murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Vice President: Alex Dafner Immediate Past President: We consider the finest memorial to all victims of racist policies to be an educational Shmuel Rosenkranz programme which aims to combat anti-Semitism, racism and prejudice in the Secretary: Elly Brooks community and fosters understanding between people. Treasurer: Eric Herz Public Officer: Adam Kreuzer Members: Allen Brostek, Harry Bryce, Abram Goldberg, Sue Hampel, Henri Korn, Willy Lermer, Helen Mahemoff Executive Director: Bernard Korbman This special 25th anniversary edition is dedicated to the JHC Foundation: memory of Cyla Sokolowicz, the first editor of Centre News. Chairperson: Helen Mahemoff Trustees: CONTENTS Nina Bassat AM Joey Borensztajn Allen Brostek FROM THE PRESIDENT 3 Silvana Layton Jeffrey Mahemoff AO EDITOR’S LETTER 3 Patrons: Professor Yehuda Bauer DIRECTOR’S POINT OF VIEW 4 Mrs Eva Besen AO Mr Marc Besen AO AGAINST ALL ODDS: Sir William Deane AC CBE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HOLOCAUST CENTRE 5 Sir Gustav Nossal AC CBE FABRIC OF THE FUTURE: 25 YEARS CELEBRATION DINNER 8 Mrs Diane Shteinman AM Steven Spielberg OUR VOLUNTEERS AND GUIDES CELEBRATE 25 YEARS 11 JHC Staff: THE JEWISH HOLOCAUST CENTRE AS A MEDIUM OF MEMORY 16 Bernard Korbman, Executive Director Zvi Civins, Director -
The Kindertransport
Portland State University PDXScholar Young Historians Conference Young Historians Conference 2014 Apr 29th, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM The Power of the People in Influencing the British Government: The Kindertransport Sophia Cantwell St. Mary's Academy Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians Part of the European History Commons, and the Social History Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Cantwell, Sophia, "The Power of the People in Influencing the British Government: The Kindertransport" (2014). Young Historians Conference. 15. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2014/oralpres/15 This Event is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Young Historians Conference by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. Cantwell 1 Sophia Cantwell Mr. Vannelli PSU MEH The Power of the People in Influencing the British Government: The Kindertransport World War II is known primarily for the Holocaust and the terror Hitler instilled throughout Europe. It is iconic for its disastrous effect on the Jewish culture and its people, but humans all over Europe were harmed and segregated, including homosexuals, people of “insufficient” nationality, and anyone who was perceived as racially inferior. During World War II, in order to escape the horrendous torture of the concentration camps, endangered and persecuted Jews were aided by Britain, who allowed thousands -
Assessing the Transdisciplinary Legacies of Zygmunt Bauman
This is a repository copy of Thinking in dark times: Assessing the transdisciplinary legacies of Zygmunt Bauman. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/155923/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Pollock, G orcid.org/0000-0002-6752-2554 and Davis, M orcid.org/0000-0001-5886-4790 (2020) Thinking in dark times: Assessing the transdisciplinary legacies of Zygmunt Bauman. Thesis Eleven, 156 (1). pp. 3-9. ISSN 0725-5136 https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513619898090 © The Author(s) 2020. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Thesis Eleven. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing [email protected] including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. [email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Thinking in Dark Times: Assessing the Transdisciplinary Legacies of Zygmunt Bauman Griselda Pollock University of Leeds, UK Mark Davis University of Leeds, UK Abstract: In 2018, the Bauman Institute and the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History (CentreCATH) both based at the University of Leeds (UK) initiated a transdisciplinary programme to assess the legacies of Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017), whose prolific writings we felt to be profoundly relevant to the multiple challenges of the twenty- first century. -
Jerusalemhem Volume 80, June 2016
Yad VaJerusalemhem Volume 80, June 2016 Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2016 (pp. 4-9) Yad VaJerusalemhem Contents Volume 80, Sivan 5776, June 2016 Inauguration of the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on the Holocaust in the Soviet Union ■ 2-3 Published by: Highlights of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2016 ■ 4-5 Students Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day Through Song, Film and Creativity ■ 6-7 Leah Goldstein ■ Remembrance Day Programs for Israel’s Chairman of the Council: Rabbi Israel Meir Lau Security Forces ■ 7 Vice Chairmen of the Council: ■ On 9 May 2016, Yad Vashem inaugurated Dr. Yitzhak Arad Torchlighters 2016 ■ 8-9 Dr. Moshe Kantor the Moshe Mirilashvili Center for Research on ■ 9 Prof. Elie Wiesel “Whoever Saves One Life…” the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, under the Chairman of the Directorate: Avner Shalev Education ■ 10-13 auspices of its world-renowned International Director General: Dorit Novak Asper International Holocaust Institute for Holocaust Research. Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Studies Program Forges Ahead ■ 10-11 The Center was endowed by Michael and Research and Incumbent, John Najmann Chair Laura Mirilashvili in memory of Michael’s News from the Virtual School ■ 10 for Holocaust Studies: Prof. Dan Michman father Moshe z"l. Alongside Michael and Laura Chief Historian: Prof. Dina Porat Furthering Holocaust Education in Germany ■ 11 Miriliashvili and their family, honored guests Academic Advisor: Graduate Spotlight ■ 12 at the dedication ceremony included Yuli (Yoel) Prof. Yehuda Bauer Imogen Dalziel, UK Edelstein, Speaker of the Knesset; Zeev Elkin, Members of the Yad Vashem Directorate: Minister of Immigration and Absorption and Yossi Ahimeir, Daniel Atar, Michal Cohen, “Beyond the Seen” ■ 12 Matityahu Drobles, Abraham Duvdevani, New Multilingual Poster Kit Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage; Avner Prof. -
Hungary and the Holocaust Confrontation with the Past
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES Hungary and the Holocaust Confrontation with the Past Symposium Proceedings W A S H I N G T O N , D. C. Hungary and the Holocaust Confrontation with the Past Symposium Proceedings CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 2001 The assertions, opinions, and conclusions in this occasional paper are those of the authors. They do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council or of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Third printing, March 2004 Copyright © 2001 by Rabbi Laszlo Berkowits, assigned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Copyright © 2001 by Randolph L. Braham, assigned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Copyright © 2001 by Tim Cole, assigned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Copyright © 2001 by István Deák, assigned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Copyright © 2001 by Eva Hevesi Ehrlich, assigned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Copyright © 2001 by Charles Fenyvesi; Copyright © 2001 by Paul Hanebrink, assigned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Copyright © 2001 by Albert Lichtmann, assigned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Copyright © 2001 by George S. Pick, assigned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum In Charles Fenyvesi's contribution “The World that Was Lost,” four stanzas from Czeslaw Milosz's poem “Dedication” are reprinted with the permission of the author. Contents -
David Cesarani (1956–2015)
10.14324/111.444.jhs.2016v47.003 David Cesarani (1956–2015) The death of David Cesarani, an accomplished historian of British Jewry and the Holocaust as well as a public intellectual, has shocked and saddened friends and admirers of his skilful, diverse, and sophisticated body of work. David was a gifted critical thinker who radiated gentlemanly warmth. His endeavours are far too numerous to mention, but include original and revisionist books such as Eichmann: His Life and Crimes and Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind as well as his work as the Director of the Wiener Library, his advising of the British government on the establishment of the national Holocaust Memorial Day, his contributions to the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism, and his research professorship at Royal Holloway, University of London. David rejected facile interpretations of history and contemporary life alike. Distinguishing his portrait of Adolf Eichmann from sensationalist popular accounts of the early postwar era and Hannah Arendt’s pivotal and controversial Eichmann in Jerusalem: The Banality of Evil, he averred in his typically provocative and yet measured tone: “Eichmann may have been mythologized and misunderstood, but this does not mean he was a really decent fellow. He was a knowing and willing accomplice to genocide, a criminal whose acts offended all humanity. But it doesn’t help us to grasp how he descended to this by starting with the impression that he was ‘evil’ or ‘mad’ or an unthinking ‘robot’, or even that he was naturally anti-semitic. The making of a génocidaire is far more complex and more disturbing than that” (Eichmann: His Life and Crimes, 6). -
The Strange and Curious History of the Law Used to Prosecute Adolf Eichmann
Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review Volume 34 Number 3 Spring 2012 Article 7 Spring 2012 The Strange and Curious History of the Law Used to Prosecute Adolf Eichmann Michael J. Bazyler Chapman University School of Law Julia Y. Scheppach UOP McGeorge School of Law, 2009 Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ilr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Michael J. Bazyler and Julia Y. Scheppach, The Strange and Curious History of the Law Used to Prosecute Adolf Eichmann, 34 Loy. L.A. Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 417 (2012). Available at: https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/ilr/vol34/iss3/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Reviews at Digital Commons @ Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Strange and Curious History of the Law Used to Prosecute Adolf Eichmann MICHAEL J. BAZYLER* AND JULIA Y. SCHEPPACH** I. INTRODUCTION The modern State of Israel was born of two powerful impulses. First was the dream of the Zionist pioneers, starting in the late nineteenth century, to return to the ancient Jewish homeland, cultivate the land, and create a new kind of Jew—strong and proud—in an independent state of their own.1 Second was the growing need for a place of refuge in the land of Zion for persecuted -
Mémoire Et Enseignement De L'holocauste
Mémoire et enseignement de l’Holocauste : Notre responsabilité partagée Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’Holocauste Holocaust Remembrance and Education: Our Shared Responsibility International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Programme Maison de l’UNESCO | 22 - 25 janvier 2018 UNESCO House | 22 – 25 January 2018 1 Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’Holocauste International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust En couverture : Cover : Photo : © Florence Brochoire – Atelier du Mémorial Photo: © Florence Brochoire – Elementary class de la Shoah en classe de primaire à Épinay-sur- workshop by the Shoah Memorial, Epinay-sur-Seine Seine, avril 2016 (France), April 2016 2 Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’Holocauste International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust Mémoire et enseignement de l’Holocauste : Notre responsabilité partagée Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’Holocauste Holocaust Remembrance and Education: Our Shared Responsibility International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust PROGRAMME Maison de l’UNESCO | 22 - 25 janvier 2018 UNESCO House | 22 - 25 January 2018 3 Journée internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’Holocauste International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust rescapé d’Auschwitz et ancien Envoyé spécial de l’UNESCO pour l’enseignement de l’histoire de l’Holocauste et la prévention du génocide : « Nous avons un devoir viscéral de partager avec nos prochains la mémoire de ce que nous avons vécu et appris dans la chair et dans l’âme. -
Security Without War a Post-Cold War Foreign Policy
SECURITY WITHOUT WAR A POST-COLD WAR FOREIGN POLICY Michael H. Shuman and Hal Harvey With a Foreward by Senator Paul Simon Westview Press Boulder • San Francisco • Oxford You will say at once that although the abolition of war has been the dream of man for centuries, every proposition to that end has been promptly discarded as impossible and fantastic. Every cynic, every pessimist, every adventurer, every swashbuckler in the world has always disclaimed its feasibility....But now the tremendous and present evolution of nuclear and other potentials of destruction has suddenly taken the problem away from its primary consideration as a moral and spiritual question and brought it abreast of scientific realism. It is no longer an ethical equation to be pondered solely by learned philosophers and ecclesiastics but a hard core one for the decision of the masses whose survival is the issue. – General Douglas MacArthur, 1955 CONTENTS Foreward, Senator Paul Simon Acknowledgments Introduction (n/a) Cold War Policies in a Post-Cold-War World Toward a New View of Security Organization of the Book Part I. Redefining Security 1. New Security Threats Military Threats Political Threats Economic Threats Environmental Threats A Comprehensive Policy 2. Limits to Force The Folly of U.S. Intervention The Recent Record for Other Users of Force Force as a Last Resort 3. Dangers of Arms Racing The Controlled Arms Race The War Risks of the Controlled Arms Race Political Insecurity Economic Security Environmental Security Security Without Arms Races Part II. Preventing and Resolving Conflicts 4. Political Roots of Conflict Strong Democracy and Interstate Peace Strong Democracy and Intrastate Peace Promoting Strong Democracy Abroad Promoting Strong Democracy at Home Perpetual Peace 5. -
Samuel Pisar
Dr SAMUEL PISAR Samuel Pisar was 10 years old when Hitler and Stalin invaded his native Poland. Interned in Auschwitz and other infernos, he finally escaped from Dachau and was liberated by the American army. Aged 16, he was one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, and the only one from his family and school. Taken in by French and Australian relatives, he resumed his studies in Paris, later graduating from the University of Melbourne and earning doctorates from Harvard and the Sorbonne. In the 1950s, he served at the United Nations and UNESCO, before becoming an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, the State Department and Committees of the Senate and the House. In 1961, he was awarded U.S. citizenship by a special Act of Congress. As an international lawyer in America, Britain and France, Samuel Pisar has counselled governments, corporations, foundations, the International Olympic Committee and personalities such as Arthur Rubinstein, Steve Jobs and Elizabeth Taylor. A defender of freedom and human rights, he took up the causes of Andrei Sakharov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other political dissidents, as well as many Jewish refuseniks. A widely-solicited lecturer, he has presided at conferences on law, trade and diplomacy and addressed global leaders at the Davos World Economic Forum, the International Monetary Fund, the New York Council on Foreign Relations and the European Parliament. In 1983, he chaired in Paris a world gathering of Nobel laureates, having himself been nominated for the Peace Prize. A board member of various public interest organizations, he is a trustee of Washington’s Brookings Institution, President of Yad Vashem France and a director of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah.