Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (240 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350201989
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9781350201972
Inhalt:
Introduction: Exploring the Transmission of Wartime Memories / Róisín Healy and Gearóíd Barry (both NUI Galway, Ireland) -- Part I - Lives in Uniform: Enduring Combat and Captivity -- 1. Nothing Spectacular to Remember? Dealing with Wartime Memories in a German Family / Hans-Walter Schmidt Hannisa -- 2. The Returning POW and a Wartime Volunteer: A Love Story / Sheena Fennell -- 3. Educating Friends and Enemies: An Irishman's Experiences in Wartime Britain / Patricia Scully -- 4. Perseverance in the Face of Life's Adversities: The Diary of an Italian Officer in Nazi Concentration Camps / Maria Ansaldo -- 5. The American from the Sky: A Story of an Italian Family Rescue from the Wehrmacht / Maureen Maloney and Colleen Williamson -- 6. Witnessing the Horrors of War: An Irishman's Experiences from El Alamein to Bergen-Belsen / Ciara Boylan -- 7. Recording the War in Connemara: A Guyanese Sailor in the Eastern Mediterranean / Cormac Loideìn -- Part II - Lives under Siege: Coping with Occupation -- 8. A Spanish Communist in the French Resistance: Uncle Luis and a German Map / Sara Farrona -- 9. A Boy in Small-Town Germany from Home Front to Allied Occupation / Hermann Rasche -- 10. A Child's View of War: Nazi Occupation, Resistance, and Civil War in North-Eastern Italy, 1943-45 / Enrico Dal Lago -- 11. A Greek Tragedy: A Small Village at War / Constantinos G. Efthymiou -- 12. The Greenberg Sisters: A Leningrad Story Told from Afar / Irina Ruppo -- 13. Slave Labour and Its Legacies: My Maternal Grandparents' Journey from Ukraine to Germany to Belgium / Sylvie Mossay.
Inhalt:
"Expertly contextualized by two leading historians in the field, this unique collection offers 13 accounts of individual experiences of World War II from across Europe. It sees contributors describe their recent ancestors' experiences ranging from a Royal Air Force pilot captured in Yugoslavia and a Spanish communist in the French resistance to two young Jewish girls caught in the siege of Leningrad. Contributors draw upon a variety of sources, such as contemporary diaries and letters, unpublished postwar memoirs, video footage as well as conversations in the family setting. These chapters attest to the enormous impact that war stories of family members had on subsequent generations. The story of a father who survived Nazi captivity became a lesson in resilience for a daughter with personal difficulties, whereas the story of a grandfather who served the Nazis became a burden that divided the family. At its heart, Family Histories of World War II concerns human experiences in supremely difficult times and their meaning for subsequent generations."--
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350201958
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.5040/9781350201989
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