- Summary
- There are nearly 40,000 sites, in Germany and in countries which the Germans occupied between 1939 and 1945. There, the Nazis and their collaborators systematically murdered nearly six million Jews as well as a huge number of people from other groups considered by the Nazis to be inferior, racially or for ideological or political reasons. These groups included Roma, homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists, and more than three million Soviet prisoners of war. These sites persist today throughout these countries. Together they formed a pathway to genocide: destroyed communities and ghettos, internment camps, transit camps, labour camps, sub camps, concentration camps, extermination camps and displacement camps. They are connected by the landscapes that surround them, and the forced journeys made between them. At these sites, individual killings and slaughter on a mass scale took place, the numbers involved almost beyond our understanding. These are sites where literal life or death decisions were made, but they are also sites of hope, survival and memory. [This book] is based around 22 Holocaust survivor stories (including second and third generation) and is made at over 160 locations throughout Europe. [author's website]
- Variant Title
- A wounded landscape: bearing witness to the Holocaust
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Wilson, Marc, 1968- photographer, author.
- Published
- [United Kingdom] : [Two & two Press], [2021]
- Contents
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Preface
Searching for the roots of a story
Bearing witness to the Holocaust
Map of key locations
Anna Rabkin and Arthur Rose
Ester Hershberg
Aaron Ianco
Eugene Black
The family of Gennady Mikityansky
Frieda Gelber
Smuel Atzmon-Wircer
Harry Mans
Henri Borlant
The Feldmann family
To bear witness
Kopel Kendall
Miriam Richter
The family of Noga Breier
Jan de Jonge
Rita Weiss
Ronja Beecher
Eugene Lebovitz
Vladimir Genoler
Simon Malkes
Sylvia Kerner and her family
The family of Yair Ebelson
Acknowledgements.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Bulgin, James, (curator), contributor.
Luchetta-Rentchnik, Claire, contributor.
Mans, Harry, contributor.
Silman, Trudy, contributor.
- Notes
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Publication information from author's website: https://www.marcwilson.co.uk/book-print-sales/p/awl
Preface -- Searching for the roots of a story -- Bearing witness to the Holocaust -- Map of key locations -- Anna Rabkin and Arthur Rose -- Ester Hershberg -- Aaron Ianco -- Eugene Black -- The family of Gennady Mikityansky -- Frieda Gelber -- Smuel Atzmon-Wircer -- Harry Mans -- Henri Borlant -- The Feldmann family -- To bear witness -- Kopel Kendall -- Miriam Richter -- The family of Noga Breier -- Jan de Jonge -- Rita Weiss -- Ronja Beecher -- Eugene Lebovitz -- Vladimir Genoler -- Simon Malkes -- Sylvia Kerner and her family -- The family of Yair Ebelson -- Acknowledgements.
Text in English, some interviews originally conducted in other languages.
