Book 1
‘Drawing on a mass of documentation, diaries and reports from ghettoes and camps, Cesarani’s authoritative account of the Holocaust reappraises the accepted explanations for the anti-Jewish politics of Nazi Germany. This searching new interpretation asserts that the Holocaust was not inevitable, but erratic, improvised, and accelerated by Germany’s military failure. The book reveals the courage and ingenuity of those who fought back, and points out that many survivors languished in Displaced Persons’ Camps long after they were ‘liberated’.’
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Book 2
‘A very thorough account of the experience of the Jews of Europe during World War II. It is virtually a day-by-day account, in men and women's own words, of the horrifying events of the Holocaust - the Nazi attempt to exterminate people of the Jewish religion.’
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Book 3
‘This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions. The author considers the impact of the Second World War on Wales's Jewish population, as well as the importance of the Welsh context in shaping the Welsh-Jewish experience.’
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Book 4
‘The Forgotten Kindertransportees provides original interpretations as it considers a number of important aspects of the Kindertransportees' experiences in Scotland, including those of a social, political and religious nature.This includes an examination of Scotland's philanthropic welfare solutions for the dependent trans-migrant minor, the role of Zionism and the impact of Scottish-Jewry's particular approach to Judaism and a Jewish lifestyle upon broader life stories of Kindertransportees.’
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Book 5
‘Drawing on particular survivors' narratives, Holocaust Landscapes moves between a series of ordinary and extraordinary places and the people who inhabited them throughout the years of the Second World War. Starting in Germany in the late 1930s, the book shifts chronologically and geographically westwards but ends up in Germany in the final chaotic months of the war. These landscapes range from the most iconic (synagogue, ghetto, railroad, camp, attic) to less well known sites (forest, sea and mountain, river, road, displaced persons camp).’
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