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All the broken places
1946. Three years after a cataclysmic event which tore their lives apart, a mother and daughter flee Poland for Paris, shame and fear at their heels, not knowing how hard it is to escape your past. Nearly eighty years later, Gretel Fernsby lives a life that is a far cry from her traumatic childhood. When a couple moves into the flat below her in her London mansion block, it should be nothing more than a momentary inconvenience. However, the appearance of their nine-year-old son Henry brings back memories she would rather forget. Faced with a choice between her own safety and his, Gretel is taken back to a similar crossroads she encountered long ago. Back then, her complicity dishonoured her life, but to interfere now could risk revealing the secrets she has spent a lifetime protecting.
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Justice matters : legacies of the Holocaust and World War II
Springing from an unprecedented meeting between the sons and daughters of the
Holocaust and the children of Nazis, this book examines the psychology of hatred and
ethnic resentments passed from generation to generation. The book argues that
justice is quite naturally shaped by emotional responses. In the face of unjust
treatment, the natural response is resentment and deep anger—and a desire
for revenge. While legal systems offer a structured means for redressing injustice,
they often do not redress the emotional pain, which, left unresolved, is then passed
along to the next generation—leading to entrenched ethnic tension and
group conflict. The legacy of the Holocaust and the burden of confronting unresolved
injustices, were passed to another generation, as, clearly, there has been no
reconciliation between Nazis and survivors. Thus, coming to terms with their
parents' past shaped the lives of Nazis' children and survivors' children. Could
children of survivors and Nazis talk to each other about the Holocaust and World War
II and understand the anxieties of each about the other as a gateway to
re-establishing a relationship? Although more than half a century has passed,
recollections of the Holocaust and World War II still sear the lives of survivors,
their children, and grandchildren. Central to preventing the cycle of ethnic and
religious strife from continuing is story-telling, with each side recounting the
injustice it suffered and the valour shown by avenging its own group. This book
describes how these stories or “legacies” transmit moral
values, beliefs, and emotions and thus preserve the past, and thus, based on the
microcosm of their parents' personal experiences, each group maintains an
understanding of themselves as the legitimate victims. Ultimately, the book argues
that coming to terms with their parents' past requires both parties not just to
agree to talk, but to agree to moderate their emotions and dispense with the notion
that they are the most aggrieved.
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Ernst Rüdin: Hitler’s Racial Hygiene Mastermind
Ernst Rüdin (1874–1952) was the founder of psychiatric genetics and was also a founder of the German racial hygiene movement. Throughout his long career he played a major role in promoting eugenic ideas and policies in Germany, including helping formulate the 1933 Nazi eugenic sterilization law and other governmental policies directed against the alleged carriers of genetic defects. In the 1940s Rüdin supported the killing of children and mental patients under a Nazi program euphemistically called “Euthanasia.” The authors document these crimes and discuss their implications, and also present translations of two publications Rüdin co-authored in 1938 showing his strong support for Hitler and his policies. The authors also document what they see as revisionist historical accounts by leading psychiatric genetic authors. They outline three categories of contemporary psychiatric genetic accounts of Rüdin and his work: (A) those who write about German psychiatric genetics in the Nazi period, but either fail to mention Rüdin at all, or cast him in a favorable light; (B) those who acknowledge that Rüdin helped promote eugenic sterilization and/or may have worked with the Nazis, but generally paint a positive picture of Rüdin’s research and fail to mention his participation in the “euthanasia” killing program; and (C) those who have written that Rüdin committed and supported unspeakable atrocities. The authors conclude by calling on the leaders of psychiatric genetics to produce a detailed and complete account of their field’s history, including all of the documented crimes committed by Rüdin and his associates.
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Tell Your Life Story
Describes Dan Bar-On's method of using storytelling as both a qualitative biographical research method and as an intervention, to bring people from opposite sides of an abyss to a dialogue. Such work needs slow pace and long-term commitment, with a special combination of a scientific rigorous analysis with a sensitive approach toward the people one approaches.
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Tell Your Life Story
Describes Dan Bar-On's method of using storytelling as both a qualitative biographical research method and as an intervention, to bring people from opposite sides of an abyss to a dialogue. Such work needs slow pace and long-term commitment, with a special combination of a scientific rigorous analysis with a sensitive approach toward the people one approaches.
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Surviving Hitler's war
Telling the stories of mothers, fathers and children in their own words, Vaizey recreates the experience of family life in Nazi Germany. From last letters of doomed soldiers at Stalingrad to diaries kept by women trying to keep their families alive in cities under attack, the book vividly describes family life under the most extreme conditions.
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The Superman Conceit
THE ATMOSPHERE OF CRIME COMIC BOOKS IS UNPARALLELED IN THE HISTORY OF children’s literature of any time or any nation. It is a distillation of viciousness. The world of the comic book is the world of the strong, the ruthless, the bluffer, the shrewd deceiver, the torturer, and the thief. All the emphasis is on exploits where somebody takes advantage of somebody else, violently, sexually, or threateningly. It is no more the world of braves and squaws, but one of punks and molls. Force and violence in any conceivable form are romanticized. Constructive and creative forces in children are channeled
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