Waiting for Hope
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A01=Angelika Konigseder
A01=Juliane Wetzel
antisemitism
Ashkenazi
Author_Angelika Konigseder
Author_Juliane Wetzel
Category=JBSR
Category=NHD
Category=NHTZ1
Category=NHWR7
concentration camp
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Europe
holocaust
Israel
Jewish
judiasm
pale of settlement
pogrom
shoah
zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9780810114777
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 148 x 221mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 2001
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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After the defeat of Germany in World War II, 140,000 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust were transported to camps maintained by the Allies for displaced persons (DPs). In this study, historians Angelika Konigseder and Juliane Wetzel offer an administrative, social and cultural history of the DP camps. Starting with the discovery of Nazi death camps by Allied forces, the authors describe the inadequate preparations that had been made for the starving and sick camp survivors. The Allied soldiers were ill equipped to deal with the physical wreckage and mental anguish of their charges, but American rabbis soon arrived to perform invaluable work helping the survivors cope with grief and frustration. The book devotes attention to autonomous Jewish life in the DP camps. Theatre groups and orchestras prospered in and around the camps; Jewish newspapers began to publish; kindergartens and schools were founded; and a tuberculosis hospital and clinic for DPs were established in Bergen-Belsen. In many places there was a last flowering of shtetl life before the DPs began to scatter to Israel and other countries. Using original documents and the work of other historians, this volume seeks to shed light on a largely unknown period in Jewish history and shows that the suffering of the survivors did not end with the war.
