Lives Reclaimed
Autor Mark Rosemanen Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 aug 2019
Apreciem, înainte de toate, modul în care Lives Reclaimed se ancorează în analiza riguroasă a documentelor de arhivă — rapoarte Gestapo și jurnale private — pentru a reconstrui activitatea discretă a grupului „Bund”. Această organizație din Essen, condusă de Artur Jacobs, a evoluat de la un cerc de educație pentru adulți axat pe perfecționare morală la o rețea clandestină care a sfidat regimul prin gesturi de o umanitate radicală. Remarcăm studiile de caz prezentate de Mark Roseman, care detaliază cum membrii grupului au trimis pachete cu alimente în lagăre de concentrare și au oferit adăpost celor persecutați, riscându-și propria supraviețuire.
Cartea propune o reevaluare a conceptului de rezistență, îndepărtându-se de narativele clasice despre eroismul militar sau politic. Lives Reclaimed este o alternativă necesară la titluri precum Rescue de Milton Meltzer pentru cursurile de istoria Holocaustului, având avantajul unei abordări micro-istorice care explorează motivațiile etice ale unui grup civil specific, în loc să ofere o panoramă generală a salvatorilor. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, cum este The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting, Mark Roseman analiza mecanismele birocratice ale exterminării, aici el schimbă perspectiva către rezistența etică din interiorul societății germane.
Această lucrare ocupă un loc central în opera autorului, completând cercetările sale din The Cambridge History of the Holocaust. Stilul narativ este precis, evitând sentimentalismul în favoarea unei analize scrupuloase a modului în care niște cetățeni obișnuiți și-au păstrat busola morală într-un sistem totalitar. Este o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea nuanțelor opoziției civile în perioada 1933-1945.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1627797874
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 169 x 243 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Henry Holt and Co.
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Despre autor
Mark Roseman este un istoric de prestigiu, profesor la Universitatea din Southampton și specialist recunoscut în istoria Germaniei moderne și a Holocaustului. A fost distins cu Premiul Fraenkel pentru istorie contemporană, o recunoaștere a rigoării cercetărilor sale. Opera sa include titluri fundamentale precum A Past in Hiding și studii critice despre Conferința de la Wannsee. Prin activitatea sa de editor pentru The Cambridge History of the Holocaust, Roseman a contribuit semnificativ la sistematizarea cunoștințelor despre această perioadă tragică, fiind una dintre cele mai autoritare voci academice din Marea Britanie în acest domeniu.
Descriere scurtă
In the early 1920s amidst the upheaval of Weimar Germany, a small group of peaceable idealists began to meet, practicing a quiet, communal life focused on self-improvement. For the most part, they had come to know each other while attending adult education classes in the city of Essen. But "the Bund," as they called their group, had lofty aspirations--under the direction of their leader Artur Jacobs, its members hoped to forge an ideal community that would serve as a model for society at large. But with the ascent of the Nazis, the Bund was forced to reevaluate its mission, focusing instead on offering assistance to the persecuted, despite the great risk. Their activities ranged from visiting devastated Jewish families after Kristallnacht, to sending illicit letters and parcels of food and clothes to deportees in concentration camps, to sheltering political dissidents and Jews on the run. What became of this group? And how should its deeds--often small, seemingly insignificant acts of kindness and assistance--be evaluated in the broader history of life under the Nazis? Drawing on a striking set of previously unpublished letters, diaries, Gestapo reports, other documents, and his own interviews with survivors, historian Mark Roseman shows how and why the Bund undertook its dangerous work. It is an extraordinary story in its own right, but Roseman takes us deeper, encouraging us to rethink the concepts of resistance and rescue under the Nazis, ideas too often hijacked by popular notions of individual heroism or political idealism. Above all, the Bund's story is one that sheds new light on what it meant to offer a helping hand in this dark time.
Descriere
Lives Reclaimed tells an extraordinary story of resistance against the Nazi regime and help for Jews in the Third Reich. Still largely unknown today, 'The Bund' were a small left-wing group based in Germany's industrial heartland. Initially preoccupied with surviving the Nazi onslaught and adapting to clandestine life under a dictatorship, in 1938 the men and women of the Bund were shocked by the anti-Jewish violence of Kristallnacht into reaching out to their Jewish neighbours. Using an unparalleled trove of previously undiscovered private papers, Mark Roseman places support for Jews under the shadow of Nazism in a completely new light, exploring the striking palette of gestures and actions that proved possible even in Nazi Germany - from simple symbolic acts of solidarity, through sending parcels to the Polish ghettos and Theresienstadt, to providing false identities and hiding people on the run. In doing so, he uncovers the challenges of living and acting under a dictatorship when neighbours and acquaintances might be as great a threat as the Gestapo, and examines the experiences of those assisted by the group, as they hid in plain sight, moving from address to address. Throughout, we are prompted to ask what drove and equipped the Bund to step into the broken glass of Kristallnacht, to visit Jewish organizations and Jewish barracks to ascertain local needs, to line up in the post-office with packages for Theresienstadt, or to brave a visit to the cells in a local police station with a message for imprisoned Jews? Although not the first book to tell the story of Jews saved from Nazi persecution, the story of the Bund is unique in the way it is able to pursue the choices, dilemmas, fears, and hopes of the helpers themselves, observing them through the changing conditions of both war and Holocaust.
Recenzii
Mark Roseman tells the story well, and asks important questions: about his subjects and our own entanglement in evil today.
Fascinating study ... Roseman's book is a brilliant, humane, and timely study. It brings both individual Bundists and also a whole period vividly to life.
Mark Roseman's Lives Reclaimed is a landmark book in the history of Holocaust rescue for several reasons: it illuminates a virtually unknown group of quirky utopian socialists who transformed themselves into a network of German rescuers, its source base is composed primarily of rare contemporary documents and only secondarily of post-war accounts, and it is a story brilliantly researched and exceptionally well-told.
Humanity is fleeting and unpredictable, but it can be rendered, with patience and skill, into history, and thereby become exemplary. This is what Mark Roseman has done, and his readers will be grateful.
Compelling reading. We have come to think of tales of rescue from Nazi persecution as being about extraordinary individuals. Mark Roseman brings us a very different kind of story-of a small and deeply interconnected group of ethical socialists in Germany who supported each other and the Jews they hid. By showing how the dynamics within small groups can make an enormous difference, Roseman also opens new perspectives on the writing of history.
In this remarkable reconstruction of a hitherto unknown resistance group, Mark Roseman tells the gripping story of ordinary Germans who did their utmost to assist Jews and dissidents targeted by the Nazi regime. Motivated by ethical principles and believing they could change society for the better, their story serves as a model of moral political conduct for our own turbulent era.
Once again, Roseman has written a pioneering work that changes our vision of life under the Hitler dictatorship.
Captivating. This is a book for our turbulent times: a story of compassion and resistance and a call to courage and solidarity.
Roseman is the first historian to tell the story of the Bund, a communitarian group whose ethical radar remained intact during the Nazi era. Insightful, engagingly written, and scrupulously researched, this important book illuminates both the terror that a small, disproportionately female opposition group faced and its success in saving lives.
Cuprins
- Introduction
- 1: Years of Innocence
- 2: The Assault
- 3: From Vanguard to Refuge
- 4: The Call to Arms
- 5: Lifelines
- 6: In Plain Sight
- 7: The Test of Total War
- 8: The Endgame
- 9: Our Flock has Grown Lonely
- 10: Beyond Recognition
- Conclusion: The Rescue of History
- Notes
- Index