Abschied was written just before the Nazi takeover. It reads in the breathless, immediate manner it was conceived.
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It is only by listening to these individual voices that we can really begin to understand what the many millions of Holocaust victims went through.
Many ordinary people in the UK who made it their business to help the hundreds of thousands of people at risk.
The film pays homage to the war generation, revels in forties nostalgia and stakes an assertive British claim to the memory of the Allied invasion.
Memoirs about the Holocaust by women emphasize women’s embodied, gendered experiences, and show their intelligence, agency and resolve in the face of Nazi persecution.
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Professor, Department of English, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton
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Emeritus Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
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Professor of German, Aberystwyth University