A Summer of Mass Murder : 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust.

A Summer of Mass Murder : 1941 Rehearsal for the Hungarian Holocaust.

"Most accounts of the Holocaust focus on trainloads of prisoners speeding toward Auschwitz, with its chimneys belching smoke and flames, in the summer of 1944. This book provides a hitherto untold chapter of the Holocaust by exploring a prequel to the gas chambers: the face-to-face mass murder...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eisen, George
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, 2022.
Subjects:
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Galicia (Poland and Ukraine)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Hungary.
History / Holocaust.
Hungary
Europe > Galicia
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • A SUMMER OF MASS MURDER
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • The Main Characters: Survivors, Witnesses, Rescuers, Perpetrators
  • Author's Note
  • Preface
  • 1. Prologue: A Primer to the Holocaust
  • 2. The Ostjuden: The Galicianer in the Hungarian Imagination
  • 3. Galicia: An Exile into the Unknown
  • 4. Kamenets-Podolsk: The Anatomy of a Massacre
  • 5. Galicia 1941
  • 1942: The Delirium of Murder
  • 6. Weapon of War: Rape and Sexual Violence
  • 7. Return from the Abyss: Rescue and Survival
  • 8. Opening Old Wounds: Responsibility and Consequences
  • 9. Requiem for a Deportation: Unanswered Questions
  • Epilogue: Looking for Closure
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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