This author is a preeminent historian of the Holocaust. Her work delves into a profound understanding of historical events and their repercussions. Through her research, she contributes to our comprehension of the complexities of human suffering and resilience. Her approach is grounded in meticulous study and analytical reflection.
Unrivaled in reach and scope, this volume illuminates the long march of events, from the Middle Ages to the modern era, which led to this great atrocity. The book uses oral histories, archival documents, letters, diaries, 75 illustrations and 16 maps.
Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present elucidates how the prewar ordinary town of Auschwitz became Germany's most lethal killing site step by step and in stages: a transformation wrought by human beings, mostly German and mostly male. Who were the men who conceived, created, and constructed the killing facility? What were they thinking as they inched their way to iniquity? Using the hundreds of architectural plans for the camp that the Germans, in their haste, forgot to destroy, as well as blueprints and papers in municipal, provincial, and federal archives, Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan van Pelt show that the town of Auschwitz and the camp of that name were the centerpiece of Himmler's ambitious project to recover the German legacy of the Teutonic Knights and Frederick the Great in Nazi-ruled Poland. Analyzing the close ties between the 700-year history of the town and the five-year evolution of the concentration camp in its suburbs, Dwork and van Pelt offer an absolutely new and compelling interpretation of the origins and development of the death camp at Auschwitz. And drawing on oral histories of survivors, memoirs, depositions, and diaries, the authors explore the ever more murderous impact of these changes on the inmates' daily lives.
The book is based on hundreds of oral histories, conducted in Europe and North America, with survivors who were children in the Holocaust, primary documentation uncovered by the author (including diaries, letters, photographs and family albums), and archival records. Drawing on these sources, Dwork reveals the feeling, daily activities, and perceptions of Jewish children who lived and died in the shadow of Holocaust. She reconstructs and analyzes the many different experiences the children faced. In the early years of Nazi domination they lived at home, increasingly oppressed by rising anti-Semitism. Later some went into hiding while others attempted to live openly on gentile papers. As time passed, more and more were forced into transit camps, ghettos, and death and slave labour camps. Although nearly 90 percent of the Jewish children in Nazi Europe were murdered, we learn in this history not of their deaths but of the circumstances of their lives.
The narrative explores the harrowing experiences of Jewish refugees escaping Nazi Europe amid persecution and war. Through a blend of official documents and personal testimonies, the authors intricately connect individual stories to the broader historical context of the Holocaust. This compelling account sheds light on the desperate measures taken by Jews to survive and the impact of their struggles on the course of history.
A bold, groundbreaking work that provides the definitive answer to the persistent question: Why didn't more Jews flee Nazi Europe?
An Atlas of Jewish Space and a Synagogue for Babyn Yar
On September 29 and 30, 1941, more than 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children were murdered in Babyn Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev. This event constituted the largest single massacre perpetrated by German troops against Jews during World War II. In commemoration, and as an affirmation of a Jewish future, a synagogue designed in the shape of an oversized Jewish prayer book was inaugurated on the same site in May 2021. When opened, the book building's inner space and its furnishings unfold. This impressive movable structure was conceived by architect Manuel Herz and is decorated with murals by Ukrainian artist Galina Andrusenko. The Babyn Yar synagogue's design is rooted in a meditation on Judaism's 3000-year old history. The leitmotif of this consideration, undertaken by historian Robert Jan van Pelt and artist Mark Podwal, is the concept of Jewish Space understood in its territorial, architectural, psychological, theological, intellectual dimensions. It traverses a historical landscape that includes great heights of spiritual aspiration and profound depths of despair, caused by antisemitism and the persecution, massacres, and genocide that resulted from it. The first volume of this lavishly illustrated and thought-provoking book, An Atlas of Jewish Space, offers 134 brief and engaging texts by Robert Jan van Pelt, each of which is illuminated with a drawing by Mark Podwal. The second volume, A Synagogue for Babyn Yar, documents the new building through photographs by celebrated architectural photographer Iwan Baan, as well as through plans and model photos. The images are supplemented with texts by Manuel Herz, Galina Andrusenko, Jean-Louis Cohen, and Marina Otero Verzier and Nick Axel
Język tybetański zaliczany jest do rodziny języków chińsko-tybetańskich, a wraz z birmańskim tworzy grupę języków tybeto-birmańskich. Ze względu na swą długą historię, zasięg i kulturotwórczą rolę język tybetański jest, obok chińskiego, najważniejszym językiem Azji Wschodniej i Środkowej. Historia języka tybetańskiego sięga połowy VII wieku i wiąże się z wprowadzeniem religii buddyjskiej do Tybetu. Wraz z upiśmiennieniem podjęto w następnych stuleciach wielkie zadanie przetłumaczenia - głównie z sanskrytu - ogromnego zbioru pism buddyjskich. Tę znormalizowaną wówczas dla potrzeb przekładu postać języka tybetańskiego określa się często mianem „tybetańskiego klasycznego'.