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The Liberation of the Camps
Dan Stone
其他書名
The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath
出版
Yale University Press
, 2015-01-01
主題
History / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust
History / Jewish
History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General
ISBN
0300204574
9780300204575
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hJ2yBwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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A moving, deeply researched account of survivors' experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed
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.