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![]() Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. ![]() The Liberation of the Camps was an eye-opener for me. It is not that I thought Jews were welcomed back with open-arms after liberation. My family managed to leave right before the outbreak of the war and I know what happened to the few remaining who tried to go back to Poland. But somehow I believed the tropes about the ecstatic survivors and the joyful reunions. When I think about it this it really does not make sense. First, how could the genocide and degradation of a people lead to anything but an exhausting and brutal struggle especially with the complex political machinations and outright anti-antisemitism of so many countries. Second, I saw this struggle in my neighborhood in Brooklyn in the 1960's as families, survivors and others, lived their lives with the trauma of the Holocaust in their bones. I found the book highly readable and appreciated the thorough research and compelling eyewitness accounts. The information was presented clearly and concisely and widened my perspective. Thank you. Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler's concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives. Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors-their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors' immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead. -- Provided by publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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