Voices on War and Genocide: Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town

by Omer Bartov (Editor)

Overview

Taking as its point of departure Omer Bartov’s acclaimed Anatomy of a Genocide, this volume brings together previously unknown accounts by three individuals from Buczacz. These rare narratives give personal glimpses into daily life in unsettled times: a Polish headmaster during World War I, a Ukrainian teacher and witness to both Soviet and German rule, and a Jewish radio technician, genocide survivor, and member of the Polish resistance. Together, they offer a prismatic perspective on a world remote from our own that nonetheless helps us understand how people not unlike ourselves responded to mass violence and destruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789207187
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	06/11/2020
Series:	War and Genocide , #30
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Note on Language, Place, and Personal Names

Introduction
Omer Bartov

The Accounts
Antoni Siewinski
Viktor Petrykevych
Mosze Wizinger

Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

“ Voices on War and Genocide assembles three extraordinarily rich personal accounts covering different periods and aspects of the history of the Galician town and region of Buczacz. Such narratives are extremely rare; even rarer are ones that are as informative and illuminating as these three.” • Thomas Kühne, Clark University

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