Includes bibliographical references. 185 pages 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references. 72 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Discusses the concentration camp experience as presented in various types of literature (fiction, memoirs, and philosophical works). While concentrating mainly on the phenomenon of political prisoners in Nazi or Stalinist concentration camps, points to the Jews' fate in the Nazi concentration camps as expressed in Primo Levi's works. Notes that Jews were usually sent to extermination camps, and only ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index. 279 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

The emotional toll of war can be as debilitating to soldiers as hunger, disease, and injury. Beginning in World War I, in an effort to boost soldiers' morale and remind them of the stakes of victory, the American military formalized a recreation program that sent respectable young women and famous entertainers overseas. Kara Dixon Vuic builds her narrative around the young women from across the United ...

Analyzes the works of writers and philosophers in whose writings the central theme is the destruction of the Jews during World War II. Deals also with the works of Max Weber, Franz Kafka, and Walter Benjamin, who were discussing a future catastrophe already before the Holocaust. Focuses on analysis of works by Hannah Arendt, Günther Anders, Theodor Adorno, Paul Celan, Jean Améry, and Primo Levi. ...

It is now widely recognized that mental health professionals who work with trauma victims are themselves at risk for powerful countertransference reactions (CTRs), vicarious victimization, and stress-related "burnout." This volume is the first book in the field of traumatic stress studies to systematically examine the unique role of countertransference processes in psychotherapy outcome. Emphasizing ...

This book compares female administrators who specifically chose to serve the Nazi cause in voluntary roles with those who took on such work as a progression of established careers. Under the Nazi regime, secretaries, SS-Helferinnen (female auxiliaries for the SS) and Nachrichtenhelferinnen des Heeres (female auxiliaries for the army) held similar jobs: taking dictation, answering telephones, sending ...

"Impossible Mourning argues that while the HIV/AIDS epidemic has figured largely in public discourse in South Africa over the last ten years, particularly in debates about governance and constitutional rights post-apartheid, the experiences of people living with HIV for the most part remain invisible and the multiple losses due to AIDS have gone publicly unmourned. This profound fact is at the center ...

"Combining case studies with theoretical and philosophical insights, this book explores the role of photography in representing conflict and genocide, both during and after the break-up of Yugoslavia. Concentrating on the photographer, this book considers the practice of photojournalism rather than simply in terms of its consumption and use by the media. The experiences and working methods of photographers ...

"This work by Vu Trong Phung, written in the 1930s, reports and expands on the author's meetings with North Vietnamese women who had made an "industry" of marrying European men. The Industry of Marrying Europeans is notable for its sharp observations, pointed humor, and unconventional mix of nonfictional and fictional narration, as well as its attention to voice: Vu Trong Phung records the French-Vietnamese ...

"Holocaust Representations in History is an introduction to critical questions and debates surrounding the depiction, chronicling and memorialization of the Holocaust through the historical analysis of some of the most provocative and significant works of Holocaust representation. In a series of chronologically presented case studies, the book introduces the major themes and issues of Holocaust representation ...

Documents pertaining to Friedrich Lissau, originally of Vienna, including birth, residence and education documents, letters of reference about his work as an apprentice welder in Vienna and Zagreb, 1938-1939, and similar documents (birth, marriage, education records) about Edith Lissau, nee Goldmann.

"The Genocidal Mind offers unique and under-explored analyses of the Holocaust and the phenomenon of 20th century genocide within a sociological framework. With reference to contemporary scholarly work and using the latest in social structural, psychoanalytical, post-modern, chaos, and uncertainty theory, Dr. Porter attempts to explain why people dehumanize and kill other innocent people. The author ...

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 287-316) x, [2], 329 pages 22 cm

"Reflecting on the work of one of the field's most influential scholars, the twenty essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our knowledge of humanity's most haunting problem. Why do they kill? The publication in 1992 of Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men" raised crucial, previously ...

Collection and memoirs illustrating the experiences of Bronislaw Bulkowski, born Roman Catholic on July 11, 1920 in Ostrowiec, Poland, surrounding the Holocaust. Bronislaw was a forced laborer for the Nazi occupying authorities and was conscripted to the German Rail Authorities in Altena, Germany. Between 1942 and 1945, he slave labored alongside other forced laborers. Included is a diary ("Wartime ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-319) and index. vi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index. 278 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-255). 255 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-396) and index. 400 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

This text offers a collection of work that gives international perspectives on the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Includes bibliographical references and index. xix, 212 pages ; 23 cm

This interdisciplinary volume aims to understand the linkages between the origins and aftermaths of genocide. Exploring social dynamics and human behaviour, this collection considers the interplay of various psychological, political, anthropological and historical factors at work in genocidal processes. This collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach in order to understand the various factors ...

"From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide studies has grown in reach to include five genocide centers across the globe and well over one hundred Holocaust centers. This work enables a new generation of scholars, researchers, and policymakers to assess the major foci of the field, develop ways and means to intervene and ...