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1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface: A Double Mourning; Chapter 1 Towards A Multidimensional Approach; A spiritual dimension; The power of story; The inner life of things; The meaning of place; Beyond the survivor label; Moving narratives; Models of inquiry; Methodological considerations; Methodological practices; Chapter 2 Jerusalem of the North -- An Historical Context; Rachel Kostanian -- 'So we have long roots here'; Dora Pilianskiene -- 'Symbols, marks, marks didn't survive' |
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Berl Glazer -- 'Do you know, there were four rabbis in my mother's family?'Fania Brantsovsky -- 'When the man came each Friday to deliver our newspapers and he was asked who was at the door, he would answer: "The bearer of culture"' ; Chasia Spanerflig -- 'We were taught that we have to be as strong . . .'; Josef Levinson -- 'In Lithuania, there were poets, famous speakers and thinkers, and they supported the ideals of hope and a brighter future for the people'; Chapter 3 My Journey Begins in Ponar; Chapter 4 The Mourner: Chasia Spanerflig; Chapter 5 The Memory Bearer: Fania Brantsovsky |
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Chapter 6 The Memory Bearer: Berl GlazerChapter 7 The Memory Bearer: Rachel Kostanian; Chapter 8 The Creative: Dora Pilianskiene; Chapter 9 The Creative: Josef Levinson; Chapter 10 Living with the Past; Notes; References; Archival sources; Oral history interviews; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Once regarded as a vibrant centre of intellectual, cultural and spiritual Jewish life, Lithuania was home to 240,000 Jews prior to the Nazi invasion of 1941. By war's end, less than 20,000 remained. Today, approximately 4,000 Jews reside there, among them 108 survivors from the camps and ghettos and a further 70 from the Partisans and Red Army. Against a backdrop of ongoing Holocaust dismissal and a recent surge in anti-Semitic sentiment, Holocaust Legacy in Post-Soviet Lithuania presents the history and experiences of a group of elderly Holocaust survivors in modern-day Vilnius. Using their s |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Holocaust survivors -- Lithuania
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Historiography
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European history.
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The Holocaust.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Former Soviet Republics.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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Historiography
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Holocaust survivors
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Lithuania
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781472522955 |
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1472522958 |
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9781472527059 |
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1472527054 |
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9781474210720 |
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1474210724 |
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1472532856 |
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9781472532855 |
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