The Train Journey Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust.

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gigliotti, Simone (auth)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Berghahn Books 2009.
Series:War and Genocide
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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