Belsen in history and memory
TitleBelsen in history and memory
Call numberS940.5318/005
Object number05556zz
Place of publicationLondon, England
PublisherFrank Cass
Year of publication
1996
Dimensions256p.
MaterialArticle
NotesSpecial issue of "The journal of Holocaust Education" Volume 5 Numbers 2 & 3
Description
Presents the recent scholarship on Belsen by British, American, German, French and Israeli historians. Drawing on documentary and oral sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Dutch and French often for the first time, it challenges many stereotypes about the camp and reinstates the groups hitherto marginalized or ignored in accounts of the camp and its liberation