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Author Kuby, Emma, 1981- author.

Title Political survivors : the resistance, the Cold War, and the fight against concentration camps after 1945 / Emma Kuby.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019.
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Survivors as witnesses in postwar France -- David Rousset's Cold War call to arms -- Forging the international commission -- Nuremberg restaged : the Soviet Univers concentrationnaire on trial -- Into the labyrinth of Franco's prisons -- Triumphs and tensions on the global stage -- From Auschwitz to Algeria : the limits of memory.
Summary "History of concentration camp survivors who launched an international campaign to expose ongoing crimes against humanity in the 1950s that illuminates how the memory of Nazi atrocity both spurred and distorted Europeans' efforts to comprehend the persistent violence of the Cold War world"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Commission internationale contre le régime concentrationnaire -- History.
Internment camps -- History -- 20th century.
Ex-Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Political activity.
Holocaust survivors -- Political activity.
Human rights workers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
Cold War -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Penology.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Internment camps
Human rights workers
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Europe
Cold War (1945-1989)
Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Kuby, Emma, 1981- Political survivors. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019 9781501732799 (DLC) 2018029856
ISBN 1501732803 (electronic book)
9781501732805 (electronic book)
9781501732812 (kindle edition)
1501732811 (kindle edition)
9781501732799 (hardcover)