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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253017440
ISBN-13
9780253017444
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208734354
Product Key Features
Book Title
Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews : a Photographic Album, Paris, 1940-1944
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Holocaust, Military / World War II, Europe / France, Photoessays & Documentaries, Jewish
Publication Year
2015
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
29.1 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
9.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-047766
Reviews
"This is a rich volume that encourages us to look closely at the photographs and "read" them in detailed historical context, revealing layers of meaning for countless ordinary lives, which Gensburger painstakingly attempts to redeem from their silence."-- Holocaust and Genocide Studies "Sarah Gensburger's comments on each photograph are fascinating in light of the reproductions [...] The great value of this publication lies in providing original material on the history of the plundering, while cultivating prudence and distance in its gaze. Thus, it gives us access both to the traces of the past and to the work of the historian, who explores, supposes, deduces and sometimes lets a healthy doubt linger."--Claire Zalc, Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire "The album, which was kept in the German Federal Archives in Koblenz, depicts furniture and crates being loaded into trucks, as well as these images of everyday household objects, assembled in massive groups. . .Looked at this way, a photo of a room full of bedding is also an image of the erasure of Jewish homes."-- Slate's "The Vault" "The material for Sarah Gensburger's study is for the most part previously unseen: a collection of eighty-five photos taken in France during the Occupation [...] These are particularly powerful images. They are all the more so because of the meaning that is given to them through the analysis and historical commentary of the author"--Anne Grynberg, Etudes Photographiques "The book serves as an important source for anyone interested in the Holocaust in France, looting, forced labor, or reading images as historical source."-- H-France "[Gensburger] masterfully turns this album of photographs into a dynamic history of Nazi looting, making it essential for both scholars and teachers of Holocaust history."-- German Studies Review "With piercing insight, Sarah Gensburger guides readers through this extraordinary collection of German photographs documenting the Nazi looting of Jewish homes in wartime Paris. At the operation's height up to eighty French moving vans a day hauled plunder to secret German depots in the heart of the city where Jewish prisoners were forced to pack the shipping crates bound for Germany. Gensburger's account captures what these pictures reveal, ironically, about a project designed to eradicate all traces of its victims and their world. A singular contribution to Holocaust history and a brilliant model of photographic analysis."--Herrick Chapman, editor, French Politics, Culture, and Society "A wonderful and telling record. Only now are historians seriously engaging with the material plunder that accompanied the Holocaust. The remarkable text that accompanies the photographs, dry-eyed, precise, yet moving, consolidates Sarah Gensburger's reputation as one of the most insightful and innovative historians of the Holocaust in France today."--Mark Roseman, author Documenting Life and Destruction: Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946 "These photographs reveal a whole new dimension of the Nazi spoliation of Jewish property in occupied France. Art theft is well known. Who knew that the Nazis also sent to Germany 674 trainloads of household goods from the apartments of deported Jews? The heaps of used toys, pans, chairs, and clocks are a pitiful final trace of destroyed families. They also show how the Nazis tried to anonymize their victims for annihilation, and to profit from their distress. Sarah Gensburger has edited them with precision and with a keen sense of multiple ways to read images."--Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France and The Anatomy of Fascism, "These photographs reveal a whole new dimension of the Nazi spoliation of Jewish property in occupied France. Art theft is well known. Who knew that the Nazis also sent to Germany 674 trainloads of household goods from the apartments of deported Jews? The heaps of used toys, pans, chairs, and clocks are a pitiful final trace of destroyed families. They also show how the Nazis tried to anonymize their victims for annihilation, and to profit from their distress. Sarah Gensburger has edited them with precision and with a keen sense of multiple ways to read images." --Robert O. Paxton, author of Vichy France and The Anatomy of Fascism, "Sarah Gensburger's comments on each photograph are fascinating in light of the reproductions [...] The great quality of this publication lies in providing original material on the history of the plundering, while cultivating prudence and distance in its gaze. Thus, it gives us access both to the traces of the past and to the work of the historian, who explores, supposes, deduces and sometimes lets a healthy doubt linger." --Claire Zalc, Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, "A wonderful and telling record. Only now are historians seriously engaging with the material plunder that accompanied the Holocaust. The remarkable text that accompanies the photographs, dry-eyed, precise, yet moving, consolidates Sarah Gensburger's reputation as one of the most insightful and innovative historians of the Holocaust in France today." --Mark Roseman, author Documenting Life and Destruction: Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946, "With piercing insight, Sarah Gensburger guides readers through this extraordinary collection of German photographs documenting the Nazi looting of Jewish homes in wartime Paris. At the operation's height up to eighty French moving vans a day hauled plunder to secret German depots in the heart of the city where Jewish prisoners were forced to pack the shipping crates bound for Germany. Gensburger's account captures what these pictures reveal, ironically, about a project designed to eradicate all traces of its victims and their world. A singular contribution to Holocaust history and a brilliant model of photographic analysis." --Herrick Chapman, editor, French Politics, Culture, and Society, "The album, which was kept in the German Federal Archives in Koblenz, depicts furniture and crates being loaded into trucks, as well as these images of everyday household objects, assembled in massive groups...Looked at this way, a photo of a room full of bedding is also an image of the erasure of Jewish homes." --Slate's "The Vault", "These photographs reveal a whole new dimension of the Nazi spoliation of Jewish property in occupied France. Art theft is well known. Who knew that the Nazis also sent to Germany 674 trainloads of household goods from the apartments of deported Jews? The heaps of used toys, pans, chairs, and clocks are a pitiful final trace of destroyed families. They also show how the Nazis tried to anonymize their victims for annihilation, and to profit from their distress. Sarah Gensburger has edited them with precision and with a keen sense of multiple ways to read images." --Robert O. Paxton, Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia and author of, among other works, Vichy France and The Anatomy of Fascism, "Sarah Gensburger's comments on each photograph are fascinating in light of the reproductions [...] The great quality of this publication lies in providing original material on the history of the plundering, while cultivating prudence and distance in its gaze. Thus, it gives us access both to the traces of the past and to the work of the historian, who explores, supposes, deduces and sometimes lets a healthy doubt linger." -Claire Zalc, Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, "The material for Sarah Gensburger's study is for the most part previously unseen: a collection of eighty-five photos taken in France during the Occupation [...] These are particularly powerful images. They are all the more so because of the meaning that is given to them through the analysis and historical commentary of the author" --Anne Grynberg, Etudes Photographiques, "Sarah Gensburger's comments on each photograph are fascinating in light of the reproductions [...] The great value of this publication lies in providing original material on the history of the plundering, while cultivating prudence and distance in its gaze. Thus, it gives us access both to the traces of the past and to the work of the historian, who explores, supposes, deduces and sometimes lets a healthy doubt linger." --Claire Zalc, Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire, The album, which was kept in the German Federal Archives in Koblenz, depicts furniture and crates being loaded into trucks, as well as these images of everyday household objects, assembled in massive groups. . .Looked at this way, a photo of a room full of bedding is also an image of the erasure of Jewish homes., "Thebook servesasan importantsource for anyone interestedinthe Holocaustin France, looting, forced labor, or reading images as historical source." --H-France, "With piercing insight, Sarah Gensburger guides readers through this extraordinary collection of German photographs documenting the Nazi looting of Jewish homes in wartime Paris.At the operation's height up to eighty French moving vans a day hauled plunder to secret German depots in the heart of the city where Jewish prisoners were forced to pack the shipping crates bound for Germany.Gensburger's account captures what these pictures reveal, ironically, about a project designed to eradicate all traces of its victims and their world.A singular contribution to Holocaust history and a brilliant model of photographic analysis." --Herrick Chapman, editor, French Politics, Culture, and Society
Dewey Edition
23
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
940.53/181320944361
Table Of Content
1. Paris, Capital of Plunder 2. Looking at the Past, Witnessing History: The Koblenz Album 3. The Photographs 4. Images and Traces of the Past Bibliography Index
Synopsis
They enable us to grasp the "Nazi gaze" and to confront the issue of the relation between greed and mass destruction., The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis' greed. The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards, ordinary Parisian Jews--mostly poor families and recent immigrants from Eastern Europe--were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings, but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets. Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews tells how this vast enterprise of plunder was implemented in the streets of Paris by analyzing images from an album of photographs found in the Federal Archives of Koblenz. Brought from Paris in 1945, the photographs were cataloged by the staff of the Munich Central Collecting Point. Beyond bearing witness to the petty acts of larceny, these images provide crucial information on how the Germans saw their work. They enable us to grasp the "Nazi gaze" and to confront the issue of the relation between greed and mass destruction., The center of the art world before the war, Paris fired the Nazis' greed. The discovery of more than 1,500 prized paintings and drawings in a private Munich residence, as well as a recent movie about Allied attempts to recover European works of art, have brought Nazi plundering back into the headlines, but the thievery was far from being limited to works of art. From 1942 onwards, ordinary Parisian Jews?mostly poor families and recent immigrants from Eastern Europe?were robbed, not of sculptures or paintings, but of toys, saucepans, furniture, and sheets. Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews tells how this vast enterprise of plunder was implemented in the streets of Paris by analyzing images from an album of photographs found in the Federal Archives of Koblenz. Brought from Paris in 1945, the photographs were cataloged by the staff of the Munich Central Collecting Point. Beyond bearing witness to the petty acts of larceny, these images provide crucial information on how the Germans saw their work. They enable us to grasp the "Nazi gaze" and to confront the issue of the relation between greed and mass destruction.
LC Classification Number
D810.C8G2813 2015
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