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Author Kuby, Emma, 1981- author.

Title Political survivors : the resistance, the Cold War, and the fight against concentration camps after 1945 / Emma Kuby
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "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 Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 28, 2019)
Subject Commission internationale contre le régime concentrationnaire -- History
Internment 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Internment camps
Human rights workers
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018032294
ISBN 1501732803
9781501732805