Survivors of Nazi Persecution in Europe after the Second World War Landscapes after Battle, Volume 1

by Cesarani, David; Bardgett, Suzanne; Reinisch, Jessica; Steinert, Johannes-Dieter

• ISBN13: 9781912676620
• ISBN10: 1912676621
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-01-20
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell

Summary

This collection of original essays on the aftermath of the Second World War—edited by four of Europe's leading scholars and practitioners—presents the best, broadest, and newest research in an international enterprise to recover a submerged past that, while half-forgotten, shaped the lives of millions of people. The book is characterized by sensitive explorations of individual stories, rigorously contextualized and informed by an acute awareness of how national and international policies, as well as age, gender, ethnicity, and nationality, affected the fate of ordinary people. Applying multi-disciplinary insights and techniques, the essays show how almost every category, that seems fixed and familiar now, was actually in a state of flux in the turbulent post-war world. This innovative and often moving body of work, originating in a dozen countries, draws on the results of several major European-funded research projects. Crucially, the essays consider experiences from both Eastern and Western Europe.

Author Biography

David Cesarani was Research Professor in History at Royal Holloway, University of London and the award-winning author of Becoming Eichmann and Major Farran's Hat. He was awarded the OBE for services to Holocaust Education and advising the British government on the establishment of Holocaust Memorial Day. Suzanne Bardgett is Head of Research and Academic Partnerships at Imperial War Museums, UK, and has been a member of the organizing committee for the Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference since its inception in 2003. She is the author of Wartime London in Paintings (2020). Jessica Reinisch is Professor of Modern European History at Birkbeck, London, UK. Johannes-Dieter Steinert is a Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Wolverhampton. His main areas of research include migration and minorities, and German, British and European History.