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Author Gigliotti, Simone, author.

Title The Train Journey : Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust / Simone Gigliotti
Published New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2009
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages)
Series Studies on war and genocide ; v. 13
War and genocide ; v. 13.
Contents Ch. 1: Introduction: a hidden Holocaust in trains -- ch. 2: Resettlement: deportees as the freight of the final solution -- ch. 3: Ghetto departures: the emplotment of experience -- ch. 4: Immobilization in "cattle cars" -- ch. 5: Sensory witnessing and railway shock: disorders of vision and experience -- ch. 6: Camp arrivals: the failed resettlement -- ch. 7: Conclusion: memory routes and destinations -- Epilogue: retelling train stories
Summary Deportations by train were critical in the Nazis' genocidal vision of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." Historians have estimated that between 1941 and 1944 up to three million Jews were transported to their deaths in concentration and extermination camps. In his writings on the "Final Solution," Raul Hilberg pondered the role of trains: "How can railways be regarded as anything more than physical equipment that was used, when the time came, to transport the Jews from various cities to shooting grounds and gas chambers in Eastern Europe?" This book explores the question by analyzing victims' experiences at each stage of forced relocation: the round-ups and departures from the ghettos, the captivity in trains, and finally, the arrival at the camps. Utilizing a variety of published memoirs and unpublished testimonies, the book argues that victims experienced train journeys as mobile chambers, comparable in importance to fixed locations of persecution such as ghettos and camps
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Psychological aspects
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Psychological aspects.
Railroad trains.
Prisoners of war -- Germany
Prisoners of war -- Austria
Political prisoners -- Germany
Political prisoners -- Austria
trains (vehicle groupings)
Humanities.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The Holocaust.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
Political prisoners.
Prisoners of war.
Psychological aspects.
Railroad trains.
Austria.
Germany.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009012809
ISBN 9781845459277
184545927X