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- After the Deportation
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- After the Deportation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Heroes and Martyrs
- 1 Le Parti des Déportés
- 2 The Concentrationary Universe
- 3 Monster with One Eye Open
- 4 The Triumph of the Spirit
- 5 The Six Million
- 6 The Thirty Years’ War
- Part II Shoah
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
5 - The Six Million
from Part I - Heroes and Martyrs
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2020
- After the Deportation
- Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- After the Deportation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Heroes and Martyrs
- 1 Le Parti des Déportés
- 2 The Concentrationary Universe
- 3 Monster with One Eye Open
- 4 The Triumph of the Spirit
- 5 The Six Million
- 6 The Thirty Years’ War
- Part II Shoah
- Epilogue and Conclusion
- Notes
- Index
Summary
But where did the story of Jewish deportees fit into all this? Isaac Schneersohn, a Russian immigrant who had survived the war in hiding, emerged at the Liberation to found the Centre de documentation juive contemporaine, which undertook to write the history of the genocide of the Jews. Schneersohn was also the moving force behind construction of a monument completed in 1956, the Mémorial du Martyr juif inconnu, now known as the Mémorial de la Shoah. The object of all such efforts was at to evoke the specificity of Jewish suffering and to find a way to include Jews qua Jews in memorial events connected to the Deportation. Schneersohn had more success at this than is often appreciated.
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- After the DeportationMemory Battles in Postwar France, pp. 160 - 193Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020