Following the language and reactions being used by individuals and publications to contextualize the child internment camp situation has been fascinating, from the historian’s point of view. Specifically, I think there’s...
Because you know I didn’t get all that solely from our girl’s memoir. There are rather a lot of books listed here, so for your reference the books are separated into...
In January 1978, thirty-three years after they left Warsaw for what they thought was the last time, Yad Vashem officials invited Vladka and Benjamin back to Warsaw for the commemoration of...
As you will remember from Part 8, Vladka and Benjamin left Poland for good upon as resurgent anti-Semitic violence made it clear that they had no future in the country of...
Vladka and Benjamin fled the ruined city in a Polish medical wagon. They rode out, hidden beneath a sheet, wearing Red Cross armbands. Once out of Warsaw, Vladka and Benjamin made...
In February 1943, two months before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Russians defeated the Germans in the Battle of Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad; still from the Soviet film The Story...
After the Uprising, the Jewish Coordinating Committee turned its efforts to providing aid and attending to the welfare of ZOB survivors, Jews in hiding inside and outside of Warsaw, and Jews interned in...
You, my only one, dearest, in isolation we are waiting for darkness. We considered the possibility of hiding but decided not to do it since we felt it would be hopeless....
“Is it possible, then, to write a history of Europe using only Arabic sources? König’s answer is still a resounding yes, albeit with a caveat. He recognizes in medieval Muslim historians...
The ruins of the Ghetto, late 1943. Image courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. An endless parade of Nazis patrolled the streets of Warsaw, canvassing every surface with huge...
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The United States, Child Detainment, and Collective Memory
Following the language and reactions being used by individuals and publications to contextualize the child internment camp situation has been fascinating, from the historian’s point of view. Specifically, I think there’s...
Category: Cultural Commentary and Criticism, From the Headlines, Global, Transnational, and Thematic History, History of the Americas and the Caribbean, Memory Studies
Vladka Meed Part 11: Bibliography and Further Reading
Because you know I didn’t get all that solely from our girl’s memoir. There are rather a lot of books listed here, so for your reference the books are separated into...
Category: Eastern European Jewish History, European History, History of Poland, Holocaust History, Jewish History, Reading List, Vladka Meed: Female Courier to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Women in the Holocaust, Women's History Global, World War II, YAS QWEEN SLAY
Vladka Meed Part 10: A Four-Day Visa
In January 1978, thirty-three years after they left Warsaw for what they thought was the last time, Yad Vashem officials invited Vladka and Benjamin back to Warsaw for the commemoration of...
Category: Eastern European Jewish History, Gen. Refugees, Global, Transnational, and Thematic History, History of Poland, Holocaust History, Jewish History, Memory Studies, Politics of Memorialization, Vladka Meed: Female Courier to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Women in the Holocaust, Women's History Global, World War II, YAS QWEEN SLAY
Vladka Meed Part 9: Meanwhile, in Poland…
As you will remember from Part 8, Vladka and Benjamin left Poland for good upon as resurgent anti-Semitic violence made it clear that they had no future in the country of...
Category: Cold War, Eastern European Jewish History, European History, History of Poland, Holocaust History, I Go Off, Jewish History, Memory Studies, Politics of Memorialization, Vladka Meed: Female Courier to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, World War II, YAS QWEEN SLAY
Vladka Meed Part 8: Not an Epilogue
Vladka and Benjamin fled the ruined city in a Polish medical wagon. They rode out, hidden beneath a sheet, wearing Red Cross armbands. Once out of Warsaw, Vladka and Benjamin made...
Category: Eastern European Jewish History, European History, History of Germany and German Speaking Lands, History of Poland, Holocaust History, Immigration History, Jewish History, Memory Studies, Politics of Memorialization, Vladka Meed: Female Courier to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Women in the Holocaust, World War II, YAS QWEEN SLAY
Vladka Meed Part 7: The Red Army
In February 1943, two months before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Russians defeated the Germans in the Battle of Stalingrad. The Battle of Stalingrad; still from the Soviet film The Story...
Category: Eastern European Jewish History, History of Germany and German Speaking Lands, History of Poland, History of Russia, Holocaust History, Jewish History, Military History, Vladka Meed: Female Courier to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Women in the Holocaust, World War II, YAS QWEEN SLAY
Vladka Meed Part 6: The Labor Camps
After the Uprising, the Jewish Coordinating Committee turned its efforts to providing aid and attending to the welfare of ZOB survivors, Jews in hiding inside and outside of Warsaw, and Jews interned in...
Category: Eastern European Jewish History, History of Germany and German Speaking Lands, History of Poland, Holocaust History, Jewish History, Vladka Meed: Female Courier to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Women in the Holocaust, Women's History Global, World War II, YAS QWEEN SLAY
‘Into eternity’: She did not survive the Holocaust, but her words did
You, my only one, dearest, in isolation we are waiting for darkness. We considered the possibility of hiding but decided not to do it since we felt it would be hopeless....
Category: European History, From the Headlines, Holocaust History, Jewish History, Women in the Holocaust, Women's History Global, World War II
Before Europe: The Christian West in the Annals of Medieval Islam
“Is it possible, then, to write a history of Europe using only Arabic sources? König’s answer is still a resounding yes, albeit with a caveat. He recognizes in medieval Muslim historians...
Category: European History, Historical Methodology, Historiography, History of Islam, Medieval History, Theory and Philosophy
Vladka Meed Part 5: Aftermath
The ruins of the Ghetto, late 1943. Image courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. An endless parade of Nazis patrolled the streets of Warsaw, canvassing every surface with huge...
Category: Eastern European Jewish History, History of Germany and German Speaking Lands, History of Poland, Holocaust History, Jewish History, Vladka Meed: Female Courier to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Women in the Holocaust, Women's History Global, World War II, YAS QWEEN SLAY