LEADER 03404cam a2200433Ia 4500001 136600 005 20240621182534.0 008 080214s2007 xx rb 000 0 eng d 028 52 3268667 |bUMI 035 (OCoLC)ocn263174091 035 136600 049 LHMA 040 LHM |beng |erda |cLHM 090 DS135.E83 |b.W43 2007 100 1 Weber, Suzanne Weiner, |d1960- 245 10 Life and death in the forest : |blandscape agency during the Holocaust / |cby Suzanne Weiner Weber. 264 1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2007. 300 ix, 194 pages 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 502 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida International University, 2007. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 1986-193). 520 To escape certain death during the Nazi regime, approximately eighty thousand terrorized and persecuted Eastern European Jews sought refuge in the forests surrounding their communities. Most often, their forest deaths were the result of Nazi-sponsored activities such as ghetto deportations and hunts for Jewish escapees. However, anti-Semitic partisans, partisan combat, hostile peasants, and environmental elements were also factors contributing to an estimated ninety percent fatality rate.This dissertation explored the role and meaning of forests to these Jewish fugitives. It investigated the bodily and social practices they developed to enhance their odds of survival in the forest landscape. I develop the concept of landscape agency as a response to my research question: What was it like to live and survive (or die) in the forest during the Holocaust? Moreover, it is an approach to theorizing about the humanity of space. Landscape agency builds upon a phenomenological approach to space and place that links landscape and action through bodily practices. This dissertation analyzed the fugitives' actions as functions of various forms of capital, namely economic, cultural and social.The sample included thirteen individuals who were themselves forest fugitives during the Holocaust. Face-face qualitative interviews were conducted from 2004 to 2006. Primary data from these interviews was used extensively to demonstrate the practices utilized in the fugitives' experiences with life and death in the forest. This study concluded that the odds of survival for forest fugitives were enhanced by use of landscape agency. 530 Electronic version(s) |bavailable internally at USHMM. 533 Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2008. |e22 cm. 590 Dissertations and Theses 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 20 January 2012. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |zEurope, Eastern. 650 0 Jewish refugees |zEurope, Eastern. 650 0 Survival. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. 651 0 Europe, Eastern |xSocial conditions. 856 41 |uhttp://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1372014061&sid=12&Fmt=6&clientId=54617&RQT=309&VName=PQD |zElectronic version from ProQuest 956 41 |uhttp://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib136600/3268667.pdf |zHosted by USHMM. 852 0 |bstacks |hDS135.E83 |i.W43 2007 852 |bwww 852 |bebook