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New Publications
Israel
Gutman and Bella Gutterman (Editors), The Auschwitz Album.
Jerusalem: Yad Vashem in association with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State
Museum, 2002, 278 pages.
Yad Vashem’s
new version of the Auschwitz Album is an original collection of
197 captioned photographs depicting the deportation of a Jewish
transport from Hungary’s Carpatho-Ruthenia region to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The photographs are arranged chronologically. They begin with the
deportees’ disembarkment from the cattle cars onto the Auschwitz-Birkenau
platform, to separation according to gender, selektion—for
slave-labor or death, final moments prior to extermination, and the
sorting of the victims’
belongings (by the “Canada” unit). This new version contains
photographs that have not appeared in previous publications, and
additional information on the deportees’ identities and fates. The
publication was sponsored by Caracas residents (see “Friends
Worldwide”).
David
Silberklang (Editor), Yad Vashem Studies —Volume 31. Jerusalem:
Yad Vashem, 2003, 420 pages.
Yad Vashem
Studies, Volume 31 contains
works from well-known researchers alongside that of up-and-coming
scholars.
Nearly half the
volume is devoted to Jewish life in Eastern European ghettos, examined
from the Jews’ perspective: Professor Nathan Cohen on the previously
unknown diary of a youth in the Vilna ghetto; Professor Gershon
Greenberg on the theological struggles and interpretations of Rabbi
Shlomo Zalman Unsdorfer in Bratislava; Professor Yehuda Bauer on the
Jews of Baranowicze; and Havi Ben-Sasson on the (new) Christian
community in the Warsaw ghetto.
Dr. Armin
Nolzen and Dr. Milka Zalmon examine German anti-Jewish policies on a
regional and grassroots level in the 1930s. Nolzen focuses on the
widespread violence, and Zalmon on the first deportations of Jews in
1938 (from Burgenland, Austria). Dr. Simon Erlanger tells the story of
Swiss labor camps for refugees and Avraham Milgram looks at Portugal’s
attitude toward its Jewish nationals living under Nazi rule. Dr. Iris
Milner analyzes Israeli second generation literature on the Holocaust. Review articles
(by Professor W alter Zvi Bacharach, Professor George Browder, Dr.
Yaacov Lozowick, and Professor David Cesarani) and a response to
Professor Dov Levin’s article on the Jewish police in the Kovno
ghetto, Volume 29 (by Samuel Schalkowsky) complete this rich volume.
David
Bankier and Israel Gutman (Editors), Nazi Europe and the Final
Solution, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003, 580 pages.
Nazi Europe
and the Final Solution is a
collection of articles based on the academic papers delivered at an
international conference that took place in August 1999, in Warsaw,
Poland. Most articles included in this volume tackle the disturbing
question: “How did people react when their neighbors were made
outcasts, humiliated, deported and later vanished without a trace?”
Featured in the volume are selected studies of both established
scholars and young researchers who attempt to clarify and analyze the
attitudes of clerical institutions, official institutions, and
resistance organizations. The conference and publication were
sponsored by the Gertner Center for International Holocaust
Conferences and the Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung.
Baruch
Milch, Can Heaven Be Void? Edited by Shosh Milch-Avigal.
Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2003, 282 pages.
“On Friday, 1
September 1939, my real life ended,” Dr. Baruch Milch wrote in his
diary as he sat in hiding after having lost his wife, young son, and
his faith. Desperately lonely, he decided to record his story on
thousands of scraps of paper—the compulsive writing of one who has
lost everything.
Milch survived
the Holocaust and moved to Israel with his second wife, Lusia. He
spent years trying to reclaim the diary, which he had given to the
Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw for safekeeping, but he met with
a wall of silence. Then, in the 1980s, he decided to rewrite the diary
from memory, but died before completing his testament. Following his
death, members of his family obtained a censored typescript of the
original diary, which they found fully congruent with the
reconstruction.
Can Heaven
Be Void? is the account of
Milch’s ordeals, composed from a combination of his original diary and
the reconstruction. The account is accompanied by an introduction by
the author’s daughter, Shosh Avigal.
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