Research Catalog

Title

Surviving the Holocaust : a life course perspective / Ronald J. Berger.

Author

Berger, Ronald J.

Publication

New York : Routledge, 2011.

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Details

Description

xiv, 264 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

A sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. It highlights the prewar experiences, agentive decision-making and risk-taking, and collective networks that helped the brothers elude the death grip of the Nazi regime.

Series Statement

Contemporary sociological perspectives

Uniform Title

Contemporary sociological perspectives series.

Subject

• Berger family
• 1900-1999
• Jews > Poland > History > 20th century
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Poland
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Psychological aspects
• Nazi concentration camps > Psychological aspects
• Jews > Persecutions > Poland
• Juifs > Pologne > Histoire > 20e siècle
• Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Aspect psychologique
• Camps de concentration nazis > Aspect psychologique
• Juifs > Persécutions > Pologne
• Jews
• Jews > Persecutions
• Psychological aspects
• Judenverfolgung
• Geschwister
• Soziologie
• Concentration camps > Psychological aspects
• Poland
• Polen

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Jewish survival of the Holocaust -- The final solution to the "Jewish problem" -- The prewar and early war years in Poland -- Death and evasion -- Surviving the concentration camps -- Wartime endings and new beginnings -- Life in the promised land -- Collective memories and the politics of victimization -- Jewish continuity and the universality of difference.

ISBN

• 9780415997300
• 0415997305
• 9780415997317
• 0415997313
• 9780203848517
• 0203848519

LCCN

2009053336

OCLC

• 298781459
• SCSB-10625263

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library