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Free Download The Slave Trade in Africa: An Ongoing Holocaust by Simon Webb
English | March 23, 2023 | ISBN: 1399094076 | 224 pages | MOBI | 12 Mb
Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impossible without the willing and enthusiastic cooperation of African leaders? Slavery was a common practice in Africa long before the arrival of Europeans, with the trade in black slaves, who were transported from Africa to America and the islands of the Caribbean, aided by the African traders who benefited from the arrangement. Even when Europe and America outlawed slavery and the slave trade, those living in Africa clung tenaciously to the old ways and refused to relinquish what was, to them, a time-honored custom. Is it for this reason that slavery lingers on in Africa to this day?

Free Download Randolph L. Braham, András Kovács, "The Holocaust in Hungary: Seventy Years Later"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 9633861470 | PDF | pages: 332 | 15.2 mb
According to most historians, the Holocaust in Hungary represented a unique chapter in the singular history of what the Nazis termed as the "Final Solution" of the "Jewish question" in Europe. More than seventy years after the Shoah, the origins and prehistory as well as the implementation and aftermath of the genocide still provide ample ground for scholarship.

Free Download The Holocaust as Active Memory: The Past in the Present By Marie Louise Seeberg & Irene Levin & Claudia Lenz & Sofie Lene Bak & Tova Benski
2013 | 207 Pages | ISBN: 1409451089 | EPUB | 3 MB
The ways in which memories of the Holocaust have been communicated, represented and used have changed dramatically over the years. From such memories being neglected and silenced in most of Europe until the 1970s, each country has subsequently gone through a process of cultural, political and pedagogical awareness-rising. This culminated in the ‘Stockholm conference on Holocaust commemoration’ in 2000, which resulted in the constitution of a task force dedicated to transmitting and teaching knowledge and awareness about the Holocaust on a global scale. The silence surrounding private memories of the Holocaust has also been challenged in many families.What are the catalysts that trigger a change from silence to discussion of the Holocaust? What happens when we talk its invisibility away? How are memories of the Holocaust reflected in different social environments? Who asks questions about memories of the Holocaust, and which answers do they find, at which point in time and from which past and present positions related to their societies and to the phenomenon in question? This book highlights the contexts in which such questions are asked. By introducing the concept of ‘active memory’, this book contributes to recent developments in memory studies, where memory is increasingly viewed not in isolation but as a dynamic and relational part of human lives

Free Download Norman J.W. Goda, "The Holocaust Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1138321559 | 2022 | 390 pages | EPUB, PDF | 14 MB + 18 MB
The second edition of this book frames the Holocaust as a catastrophe emerging from varied international responses to the Jewish question during an age of global crisis and war.

Free Download Atina Grossmann, "Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union "
English | ISBN: 0814342671 | 2017 | 256 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
About 1.5 million East European Jews―mostly from Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia―survived the Second World War behind the lines in the unoccupied parts of the Soviet Union. Some of these survivors, following the German invasion of the USSR in 1941, were evacuated as part of an organized effort by the Soviet state, while others became refugees who organized their own escape from the Germans, only to be deported to Siberia and other remote regions under Stalin’s regime. This complicated history of survival from the Holocaust has fallen between the cracks of the established historiographical traditions as neither historians of the Soviet Union nor Holocaust scholars felt responsible for the conservation of this history, which at best is pushed to the margins and often silenced or forgotten altogether. With Shelter from the Holocaust: Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union

Free Download Sheila E. Jelen, "Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies "
English | ISBN: 081434318X | 2020 | 88 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
This volume explores how American Jewish post-Holocaust writers, scholars, and editors adapted pre-Holocaust works, such as Yiddish fiction and documentary photography, for popular consumption by American Jews in the post-Holocaust decades. These texts, Jelen argues, served to help clarify the role of East European Jewish identity in the construction of a post-Holocaust American one. In her analysis of a variety of "hybrid" texts―those that exist on the border between ethnography and art―Jelen traces the gradual shift from verbal to visual Jewish literacy among Jewish Americans after the Holocaust.

Free Download Jan Borowicz, "Perverse Memory and the Holocaust "
English | ISBN: 103236050X | 2024 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 731 KB + 4 MB
Perverse Memory and the Holocaust presents a new theoretical approach to the study of Polish memory bystanders of the Holocaust. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, it examines representations of the Holocaust in order to explore the perverse mechanisms of memory at work, in which surface a series of phenomena difficult to remember: the pleasure derived from witnessing scenes of violence, identification with the German perpetrators of violence, the powerful fear of revenge at the hands of Jewish victims, and the adoption of the position of genocide victims.

Free Download Holocaust of the Childlike: The Progress of a Spiritual War By Daniel Schwindt, Lindsey Schwindt
2013 | 238 Pages | ISBN: 1492895474 | EPUB | 1 MB
The war that lies at the back of every other is the timeless war on the childlike. Whether the object of hostility is the spiritual child or the actual physical child, civilization has been arranged to suppress and ultimately destroy all forms of innocence. For anyone who has ever asked "What is wrong with the world?", or even more, "What is wrong with kids these days?", this sweeping analysis of the spirit of the child against the spirit of the modern world offers an answer.In part one, author Daniel Schwindt traces the tendency of man to offer up his own innocence at the altar of the world. Here he clearly identifies the virtues of spiritual childlikeness, and points out the subtle ways in which it is being destroyed. From the Garden of Eden to the European Enlightenment; from ancient idolatry to modern materialism; from wisdom of Tradition to the universal liberalism of today; everywhere the spiritual extermination of the childlike is on the rise. Part two moves to the open and obvious attack on the actual physical child. Schwindt shows that man has built for himself a world that is actively hostile to his own children. Every stage and area of life is examined: infancy, education and literacy, family life, child labor, television, technology, youth protest, and violence. In the end, the physical child will always follow man’s innocence to the sacrificial altar. As this great war reaches its peak, and the holocaust of the childlike becomes ever more obvious, men will need an outline of the battlefield. This book is a reconnaissance into enemy territory, seeking to offer that outline for anyone who cares to fight back.

Free Download Daniel H. Magilow, "Holocaust Representations in History: An Introduction Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 1350091804 | 2019 | 272 pages | PDF | 3 MB
How the Holocaust is depicted and memorialized is key to our understanding of the atrocity and its impact. Through 18 case studies dating from the immediate aftermath of the genocide to the present day, Holocaust Representations in History explores this in detail.

Free Download David Duindam, "Fragments of the Holocaust: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Site of Memory "
English | ISBN: 9462986886 | 2018 | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Why do we attach so much value to sites of Holocaust memory, if all we ever encounter are fragments of a past that can never be fully comprehended? David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theater in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, fell into disrepair after World War II before it became the first Holocaust memorial museum of the Netherlands. Fragments of the Holocaust: The Amsterdam Hollandsche Schouwburg as a Site of Memory combines a detailed historical study of the postwar period of this site with a critical analysis of its contemporary presentation by placing it within international debates concerning memory, emotionally fraught heritage and museum studies. A case is made for the continued importance of the Hollandsche Schouwburg and other comparable sites, arguing that these will remain important in the future as indexical fragments where new generations can engage with the memory of the Holocaust on a personal and affective level.