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A summer of mass murder : 1941 rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust / George Eisen.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DS135.H9 E425 2023

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    Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder of Jews in Galicia by bullets. The summer of 1941 ushered in a chain of events that had no precedent in the rapidly unfolding history of World War II and the Holocaust. In six weeks, more than twenty thousand Hungarian Jews were forcefully deported to Galicia and summarily executed. In exploring the fate of these Hungarian Jews and their local coreligionists, A Summer of Mass Murder transcends conventional history by introducing a multitude of layers of politics, culture, and, above all, psychology-for both the victims and the executioners. The narrative presents an uncharted territory in Holocaust scholarship with extensive archival research, interviews, and corresponding literature across countries and languages, incorporating many previously unexplored documents and testimonies. Eisen reflects upon the voices of the victims, the images of the perpetrators, whose motivation for murder remains inexplicable. In addition, the author incorporates the long-forgotten testimonies of bystander contemporaries, who unwittingly became part of the unfolding nightmare and recorded the horror in simple words. This book also serves as a personal journey of discovery. Among the twenty thousand people killed was the tale of two brothers, the author's uncles. In retracing their final fate and how they were swept up in the looming genocide, A Summer of Mass Murder also gives voice to their story."-- Back cover.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Eisen, George, 1943- author.
    Published
    West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2023]
    ©2023
    Locale
    Hungary
    Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
    Europe
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-359) and index.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9781612497754
    1612497756
    9781612497761
    1612497764
    Physical Description
    xxv, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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