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Title

The Nazis' last victims : the Holocaust in Hungary / edited by Randolph L. Braham ; with Scott Miller.

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Braham, Randolph L.
• Miller, Scott, 1958-
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Description

200 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

• The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimized in general works on the Holocaust. The result of the 1994 conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jewry, this anthology examines the effects on Hungary as the last country to be invaded by the Germans.
• The Jewish community in Hungary remained relatively intact throughout most of the Holocaust period until just months before the end of World War II. The Nazis' Last Victims questions what Hungarians knew of their impending fate and examines the heightened sense of tension and haunting drama in Hungary, where the largest single killing process of the Holocaust period occurred in the shortest amount of time.

Subjects

• Jews > Persecutions > Hungary
• Hungary > Ethnic relations
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Hungary

Note

• "Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Foreword / Michael Berenbaum -- Preface / Randolph L. Braham and Scott Miller -- The Holocaust in Hungary: A Retrospective Analysis / Randolph L. Braham -- Germans, Hungarians, and the Destruction of Hungarian Jewry / Attila Pok -- The Preparations for the Holocaust in Hungary: An Eyewitness Account / Rudolf Vrba -- The Last Phase of the Hungarian Holocaust: The Szalasi Regime and the Jews / Laszlo Karsai -- The Dilemma of Rescue or Revolt / Asher Cohen -- International Intervention: The Role of Diplomats in Attempts to Rescue Jews in Hungary / Robert Rozett -- Unlearning the Holocaust: Recollections and Reactions / Miklos Hernadi -- Varieties of the Hungarian Jewish Experience / Charles Fenyvesi -- Personal Recollections / Menahem Schmelzer.

ISBN

0814327370 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97047721

OCLC

ocm38113441

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries