(1929--1945), A young Dutch victim of the Holocaust and author of a famous diary. Soon after the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Anne Frank and her family left Germany for Amsterdam, Holland. When the Germans subsequently occupied the Netherlands in October 1940, Anne's father, Otto, began to prepare for the eventuality of having to go into hiding. On July 5, 1942 Anne's older sister, Margot, received a summons from the Central Office for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle fuer Juedische Auswanderung), which ordered her to appear for forced labor. The very next day, the Franks moved into the empty...
(1929--1945), A young Dutch victim of the Holocaust and author of a famous diary. In 1933 the Nazis rose to national power in Germany. Soon after, Anne Frank and her family left Germany for Amsterdam, Holland. When the Germans then occupied the Netherlands in October 1940, Anne's father, Otto, began to prepare for the eventuality of having to go into hiding. On July 5, 1942 Anne's older sister, Margot, received a summons from the Central Office for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle fuer Juedische Auswanderung), which ordered her to appear for forced labor. The very next day, the Franks moved ...
"Are you drawn to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable adversity? Intrigued by the stories of courage that emerge frThis book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other, whilst convincingly arguing for the importance of local history and individual testimony in grasping the nature of mass murder. He goes on to critically examine how...