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Summary:

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. -- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: explaining liberation
• Liberated by the Soviets
• The Western allies
• Out of the chaos
• Displaced persons (DPs) or betrayed persons (BPs)? life in the dp camps
• Transitions: DPs in a changing world
• Conclusion: the sorrows of liberation.

Author/Creator:

Stone, Dan, 1971- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The liberation of the camps: the end of the Holocaust and its aftermath [by Stone, D.]

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 — Concentration camps — Liberation

Concentration camps — Europe — History — 20th century

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

World War, 1939-1945 — Refugees

World War, 1939-1945 — Jews

World War (1939-1945)

Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)

1900-1999

Concentration camps

Refugees

Jews

Liberty

Europe

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-263) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

D805.A2 S74 2015eb

ISBNs:

9780300216035 (electronic bk.)
0300216033 (electronic bk.)
9780300204575 [Invalid]
0300204574 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

908252719

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3421618 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12409580