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- Title
History and Memory: The Orthodox Experience in the Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp.
- Authors
Thaler, Henri Lustiger
- Abstract
In recent research on displaced persons camps in occupied Germany, Jewish self-governance, embedded in the trope of a general Jewish rebirth, has emerged as the central narrative theme. This article makes the case that Jewish governance in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp was characterized by deep divisions between the Orthodox and the non-Orthodox, particularly from the liberation of the camp on April 15, 1945 through early 1947. The author considers the implications of this conflict for collective memory of the Holocaust and research on the displaced persons camps.
- Subjects
GERMANY; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945, &; collective memory; HOLOCAUST survivors; REFUGEE camps; JEWISH refugees; NONTRADITIONAL Jews &; Orthodox Judaism; ZIONISM &; Judaism; ORTHODOX Jews; ZIONISTS; BERGEN-Belsen (Germany : Concentration camp); TWENTIETH century; JEWISH history; HISTORY
- Publication
Holocaust & Genocide Studies, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 1, p30
- ISSN
8756-6583
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hgs/dct010