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  title info:
    title: The Train Journey
    sub title: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust
  name:
    name part: Gigliotti, Simone.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: auth
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    publisher: Berghahn Books
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis' genocidal vision of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the "Final Solution," Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: "How can railways be regarded as anything more than physical equipment that was used, when the time came, to transport the Jews from various cities to shooting grounds and gas chambers in Eastern Europe?" This book explores the question by analyzing victims' experiences at each stage of forced relocation: the round-ups and departures from the ghettos, the captivity in trains, and finally, the arrival at the camps. Utilizing a variety of published memoirs and unpublished testimonies, the book argues that victims experienced train journeys as mobile chambers, comparable in importance to fixed locations of persecution such as ghettos and camps.
  table of contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction: A Hidden Holocaust in Trains -- Chapter 2 Resettlement: Deportees as the Freight of the Final Solution -- Chapter 3 Ghetto Departures: The Emplotment of Experience -- Chapter 4 Immobilization in "Cattle Cars" -- Chapter 5 Sensory Witnessing and Railway Shock: Disorders of Vision and Experience -- Chapter 6 Camp Arrivals: The Failed Resettlement -- Chapter 7 Conclusion: Memory Routes and Destinations -- Epilogue: Retelling Train Stories -- Bibliography -- Index
  note: Knowledge Unlatched
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: The Holocaust
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Military / World War II
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Holocaust
  subject:
    topic: Auschwitz concentration camp
  subject:
    topic: Deportation
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Stock car (rail)
  subject:
    topic: The Holocaust
  classification: 940.5318
  related item:
    title info:
      title: War and Genocide
  identifier: 9781785334771
  identifier: 1785334778
  identifier: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: OAPEN
    record creation date: 170401
    record change date: 20260212200053.2
    record identifier: in00005686128
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng