Political survivors : the resistance, the Cold War, and the fight against concentration camps after 1945

Political survivors : the resistance, the Cold War, and the fight against concentration camps after 1945 / Emma Kuby.

Author/creator	Kuby, Emma, 1981- author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice	©2019
Description	xii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	Commission internationale contre le régime concentrationnaire--History. Nazi concentration camps--History --20th century. Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates--Political activity. Holocaust survivors--Political activity. Human rights workers--Europe --History --20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence. Cold War--History.

Contents	Concentration camp survivors as witnesses in postwar France -- David Rousset's Cold War call to arms -- Forging the international commission -- Nuremberg restaged : the Soviet univers concentrationnaire on trial -- Into the labyrinth of Franco's prisons -- Triumphs and tensions on the global stage -- From Auschwitz to Algeria : the limits of memory.
Abstract	"History of concentration camp survivors who launched an international campaign to expose ongoing crimes against humanity in the 1950s that illuminates how the memory of Nazi atrocity both spurred and distorted Europeans' efforts to comprehend the persistent violence of the Cold War world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: Kuby, Emma, 1981- Political survivors. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501732805
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2018029856
ISBN	9781501732799 hardcover ; alkaline paper
ISBN	150173279X hardcover ; alkaline paper

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HV8963 .K83 2019	✔ Available	Place Hold