Our Courage – Jews in Europe 1945–48

Kata Bohus, Atina Grossmann, Werner Hanak, Mirjam Wenzel, Kata Bohus, Atina Grossmann, Werner Hanak, Mirjam Wenzel

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9783110653076
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: History

After the Shoah, Jewish survivors actively took control of their destiny. Despite catastrophic and hostile circumstances, they built networks and communities, fought for justice, and documented Nazi crimes. The essays, illustrations, and portraits of people and places contained in this volume are informed by a pan-European perspective. The book accompanies the first special exhibition at the re-opened Jewish Museum in Frankfurt.

German edition

Table of contents

• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES IN EASTERN EUROPE IN THE IMMEDIATE POSTWAR PERIOD
• BIALYSTOK THE DEAD CITY
• ART PRINTS AS A MEDIUM FOR THE DOCUMENTATION AND MEMORIALIZATION OF THE GENOCIDE
• POSTWAR VIOLENCE AGAINST JEWS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
• JULIA PIROTTE AND THE DOCUMENTATION OF THE KIELCE POGROM
• STORIES OF MIGRATION AND REPATRIATION FROM THE SOVIET UNION SHIFTING BORDERS AND POPULATION GROUPS
• REICHENBACH/ RYCHBACH/ DZIERŻONIÓW A CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE IN POLAND IN A PERIOD OF TRANSITION, 1945−1950
• PROTECTING THE EUROPEAN BRANCH OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA THE AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE IN EUROPE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST
• BUDAPEST THE CITY OF SURVIVORS
• PASSOVER 1946 THIS YEAR IN JERUSALEM
• TAKING UP THE CAUSE OF THE JEWISH COLLECTIVE JEWISH COMMUNISTS IN BERLIN’S SOVIET SECTOR DURING THE “INTERREGNUM” FROM 1945 TO 1950
• BERLIN (EAST) THE CITY OF JEWISH COMRADES
• PHOTOGRAPHERS IN BERLIN
• ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH CULTURE IN GERMANY’S AMERICAN OCCUPATION ZONE
• THE KATSET-TEATER “CONCENTRATION CAMP THEATER” IN THE BERGEN-BELSEN DP CAMP
• FRAGMENTS FROM A LOST WORLD THE RESCUE AND RESTITUTION OF JEWISH CULTURAL ASSETS IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD
• RESCUE ATTEMPTS THE HUNGARIAN JEWISH MUSEUM AND JEWISH CULTURAL HERITAGE AFTER 1945
• FRANKFURT AND ZEILSHEIM AMERICA IN GERMANY
• JEWISH COURTS OF HONOR IN THE AMERICAN ZONE OF OCCUPIED GERMANY AND THE ALLIED JUDICIARY
• AMSTERDAM THE CITY OF CONFLICTS
• OUR COURAGE THE MEANING OF ZIONISM FOR SURVIVORS IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HOLOCAUST
• BARI THE CITY OF TRANSIT
• STRENGTHENING THE ORTHODOX TRADITION IN JEWISH DP FAMILIES INTERGENERATIONAL PROCESSES
• AUTHORS
• GLOSSARY OF TERMS
• PHOTO AND VIDEO SOURCES
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• IMPRINT