The Last Days; Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

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Edition: 1st
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 1999-06-12
Publisher(s): Thomas Dunne Books
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Summary

The devastation of Hungarian Jewry was among the worst atrocities of World War II, encompassing the murder of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in the final months of the war. Facing defeat, Hitler and his allies brought the Holocaust to Hungary with unprecedented speed and barbarity. The Hungarian Jewish population was rounded up and deported to concentration camps in just 54 days. 437,402 Jews. 148 trains. Destination: Auschwitz. The German plan for annihilation of the Jews-called the 'Final Solution'-set the goal that not a single survivor would be left to bear witness to the events. Fifty years later, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to record the testimony of as many survivors as possible. From the ashes of the Holocaust these voices now emerge to share their stories and to represent the nearly six million Jews who did not survive. Survivors and liberators share what they experienced in gripping, firsthand testimony. Archival photographs document history, and powerful color images chronicle the survivors' emotional return to the places of their pasts:from homes unseen for fifty years to the ghettos and concentration camps of their imprisonment. Top scholars have been brought together to share their insights into one of humanity's darkest chapters. These elements are poignantly synthesized in The Last Days as a warning for all mankind.

Author Biography

David Cesarani is Professor of Twentieth-century Jewish History and Culture, University of Southhampton, and Director of the Wiener Library, London. He has just published a biography of Arthur Koestler.

Dr. Randolph Braham is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Sciences at the City College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of new York. He is the author of many scholarly monographs, including the highly acclaimed The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary.

Table of Contents

Preface 6(2)
Steven Spielberg
Prologue 8(6)
Dr Michael Berenbaum
Introduction 14(38)
David Cesarani
The Survivors
Roundups
52(6)
Alice Lok Cahana
58(18)
Ghettoisation
76(6)
Irene Zisblatt
82(14)
Deportation and Selection
96(12)
Bill Basch
108(16)
Raoul Wallenberg
124(2)
Renee Firestone
126(18)
In the Camps
144(12)
Dario Gabbai
156(4)
Disposal of the Bodies
160(10)
Tom Lantos
170(16)
Liberation
186(34)
Three Soldiers' Stories
Dr Paul Parks
220(5)
Warren Dunn
225(5)
Katsugo Miho
230(4)
Epilogue 234(4)
Dr Randolph Braham
The Shoah Foundation 238(2)
Further Reading 240

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