
The Nazis' Last Victims
The Holocaust in Hungary
Wayne State University Press
Published on 31. May 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
200 pages
978-0-8143-3095-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Nazis' Last Victims articulates and historically scrutinizes both the uniqueness and the universality of the Holocaust in Hungary, a topic often minimalized in general works on the Holocaust. The result of the 1994 conference at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the 50th anniversary of the deportation of Hungarian Jewry, this anthology examines the effects on Hungary as the last country to be invaded by the Germans. The Jewish community in Hungary remained relatively intact throughout most of the Holocaust period until just months before the end of World War II. ""The Nazis' Last Victims"" questions what Hungarians knew of their impending fate and examines the heightened sense of tension and haunting drama in Hungary, where the largest single killing process of the Holocaust period occurred in the shortest amount of time. The text covers the experiences of victims, perpetrators, collaborators, rescuers, resisters, and bystanders, as well as memorializers and historiographers of the Holocaust. While providing a basic historical overview of the Holocaust, this collection applies to Hungary the general themes of Holocaust historiography, analysing traditional anti-Semitism, anti-Jewish legislation, local collaboration, Jewish responses, ghettoization, deportations, the killing process, and Allied responses. Reflecting scholarship from a number of different disciplines in Hungary, Israel, and the United States, the contributors present a variety of - and often conflicting - analyses and insights, demonstrating an open and animated exchange of ideas. The contributors utilized archives from Hungary, Israel, and Germany, and some, as survivors of the Holocaust in Hungary, have included their own personal testimony. Through the combination of two vital components of history writing - the analytical and the recollective - the book probes the destruction of the last remnant of European Jewry in the Holocaust.
Reviews / Votes
Given the lateness and speed of the implementation of the Holocaust in Hungary, the themes of resistance and rescue have assumed considerable importance in the historiography. Both are covered quite well in [The Nazis' Last Victims] which also sketches in the context of the events of 1944 and reflects on the aftermath. - Patterns of Prejudice ""Randolph L. Braham gives a scholarly and well-nuanced survey of the history of the Jews in Hungary from the Compromise of 1867 to the present....The book is an excellent source on the Shoah and on a dark chapter in the eleven hundred year history of Hungary."" - Hungarian Studies Newsletter ""[A] valuable contribution to the literature, and it should do much to stimulate wider interest in the topic."" - Central European HistoryMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Detroit, MI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 illustrations, 5 maps
Dimensions
Height: 227 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8143-3095-1 (9780814330951)
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Persons
Randolph L. Braham is the director of the Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Scott Miller is director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.