"An indispensable sourcebook...Emphasis falls on the variegated, often joyful, culture of the Polish Jews, on what existed before the garden was ruined." - Geoffrey H. Hartmann, "The New Republic". "From these marvelous selections, one can see an entire culture unfolding. "From a Ruined Garden" accomplishes what editors from hundreds of towns sought to do for their destroyed communities - create paper monuments wherein a bit of that extinguished flame is fanned back to life." - Curt Leviant, "New York Times Book Review". In the years after World War II Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who had made their way to America or Israel resolved to preserve the memory of their destroyed communities by compiling memorial books, narrative accounts of Jewish life in Polish towns before, during, and to some extent after the Holocaust. "From a Ruined Garden" gathers some 65 selections from the nearly one thousand memorial books published since World War II. The texts describe typical market days, communal institutions, prayer houses, peculiar town types, outstanding personalities, and local customs and legends, as well as everyday life during the Holocaust and the experiences of returning survivors. The book includes a comprehensive bibliography of the memorial books and a gazetteer of place names mentioned in the text. A substantial introduction by the editors illuminates the history of the memorial books and their importance in the construction of memory culture through the response of survivors.

From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry

History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Military

Indiana Univ. Pr

The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust As Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Photographer

Berenbaum, Michael

Americas

Little,Brown & Co

The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Coinciding with the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April, this volume commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, using photographs of the museum's artifacts to document the human stories.

Hidden history of the Kovno Ghetto brings together unique materials from Lithuania, Israel and the United States to present a compelling and unforgetable view of Jewish life, loss survival and defiance during the Holocaust.

Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto

Russia

Boston, MA Little, Brown & Co

The "Sugihara Rescue" of 2,100 Jews in 1940 is detailed here, retracing the unlikely humanitarian alliance between the Netherlands and Japan and the subsequent trans-Siberian journey that saved this fortunate group of Jews.

Flight and Rescue: Us Holocaust Memorial Museum

World

Holocaust Pubns

Discusses the "Sugihara Rescue" of 2,100 Jews in 1940, retracing the unlikely humanitarian alliance between the Netherlands and Japan and the subsequent trans-Siberian journey that saved this fortunate group of refugees.

Flight and Rescue

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

From the red shoes a toddler wore in a ghetto in Poland before she was deported and killed to a wooden boat used to smuggle Danish Jews to safety, the Museum's collection of Holocaust evidence reflects a wide range of individual experiences and perspectives on the history. The new book The Last Witnesses tells the powerful stories behind several dozen artifacts from the Museum's collection. These items show what happened in one of the darkest chapters of human history and help us recognize that the Holocaust took place in a world not unlike our own and could occur again if we do not heed the lessons of the past.

The Last Witnesses: Artifacts from the Museum's Collection

Europe

Americans and the Holocaust: Artifacts from the Museum's Collection

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