Liberation Reconsidered

New Approaches to the End of the Holocaust in Europe
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-8353-6051-8
Verlag: Wallstein Verlag GmbH

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 222 mm

Reihe: European Holocaust Studies

Liberation as a process shaped by Holocaust survivors` distinct historical and geographic circumstances.

The liberation of the camps at the end of World War II has often been portrayed as a singular rapturous juncture. The authors in this volume collectively underscore the necessity of reconceptualizing liberation in a manner that transcends triumphalist narratives, foregrounding instead the inherent complexity, variability, and frequently tragic limitations confronted by Jewish Holocaust survivors in the »aftermath« of genocide. They demonstrate how local conditions, political structures, and social relationships shaped survivors` experiences of the war`s end and their attempts to rebuild their lives.

Includes:
Monika Flaschka: That`s what women are for, just to rape them: Soviet Rape of Holocaust Survivors
Katerina Králová: The Fluidity of Liberation: Jewish Survivors in Postwar Greece
Johannes Meerwald: There is no feeling of newfound freedom – Jewish Prisoners in Southern Bavaria at Liberation

Der Band erscheint vollständig in englischer Sprache.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anthony, Elizabeth

Králová, Kate¿ina

Löw, Andrea

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Anthony, born 1971, is a historian and the director of Visiting Scholar Programs at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Her book, The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust, was a commended finalist for the Ernst Fraenkel Prize.

Löw, Andrea
Andrea Löw ist seit 2025 Leiterin des Zentrums für Holocaust-Studien am Institut für Zeitgeschichte in München und Lehrbeauftragte am Historischen Institut der Universität Mannheim.

Králová, Kate¿ina
Katerina Králová, born 1976, is a professor of contemporary history and a memory studies scholar at the Czech Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Prague, where she is the leader of the Research Centre for Memory Studies. She has edited and authored many publications, including her 2025 book Homecoming, Holocaust Survivors and Greece, 1941-1946 (Brandeis University Press).