Ghost citizens : Jewish return to a postwar city /
Few Polish Holocaust survivors went home after liberation. Lukasz KrzyzÌ⁷anowski recounts the story of a group who did-the returnees of Radom. Bureaucrats tried to hold back their property and possessions to prop up the ruined state. And the returnees faced pogroms and even gangs of fellow Jews. Aga...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the Polish. |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | Few Polish Holocaust survivors went home after liberation. Lukasz KrzyzÌ⁷anowski recounts the story of a group who did-the returnees of Radom. Bureaucrats tried to hold back their property and possessions to prop up the ruined state. And the returnees faced pogroms and even gangs of fellow Jews. Against it all, they struggled to rebuild their lives. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in Polish as Dom, którego nie było: powroty ocalałych do powojennego miasta, by Wydawnictwo Czarne, Wołowiec, Poland, 2016"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674984660 0674984668 |