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New from Bradt is The Holocaust: Europe's Sites, Museums and Memorials, a unique travel guidebook to European locations that tell the story of the greatest crime ever perpetrated – the Nazi genocide of six million Jews and other persecuted groups. In recent years countries once reluctant to delve into the dark corners of their past have begun to document the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath. Europe has many new ground-breaking museums and memorials that tell us as much about the present as they do the past. Chapters are dedicated to each country or region that were occupied by Nazi Germany as well as nations like the UK and neutral Sweden, which played a vital role both before and after the Holocaust. Organized around city hubs in each country, this Bradt guide helps visitors explore numerous destinations, whether infamous, well known or comparatively unexpected. This is much, much more than a guide to notorious sites such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald or Dachau. You can take a walking tour in Vienna, to view the new wall of names. Or visit the Memorial des Martyrs de la Deportation in Paris, Anne Frank House in Amsterdam or the Jewish Museum in Ferrara. And you can learn how babies were smuggled out in sacks in Lithuania or read about Bavaria's Kloster Indersdorf, a remarkable children's home that cared for survivors. Written by a journalist and travel writer specialising in Jewish history, Bradt's The Holocaust: Europe's Sites, Museums and Memorials provides the traveller with not only a list of must-see sites in each country but also a comprehensive list of organizations that run tours, commemorations and volunteer schemes. Extensive listings of where to eat and stay (including Kosher restaurants and hotels) ease the traveller's way, as do descriptions of local Jewish organisations and tips on how to pace potentially difficult journeys into Europe's dark past. Bradt's The Holocaust: Europe's Sites, Museums and Memorials is the first comprehensive travel guide to the genocide and the first to help the traveller understand the Holocaust by seeing the places where it happened. AUTHOR: Rosie Whitehouse is a freelance journalist based in London. Since working for the BBC World Service, she has written for an array of publications including the Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian and the Daily Mail. She is an experienced travel writer, with particular expertise in family travel and a historian specialising in Jewish life after the Holocaust. She has authored Bradt's Liguria and The Holocaust: Europe's Sites, Museums and Memorials, Cadogan and DK travel guides to France, a book chronicling the experiences of a young family coming to terms with having a dad working as a front-line reporter in the war-torn Balkans (Are We There Yet? Travels with my Frontline Family) and the critically acclaimed account of the thousands of Holocaust survivors who passed through Italy after the end of World War II (The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust).

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Author:   Rosie Whitehouse
Publisher:   Bradt Travel Guides
Imprint:   Bradt Travel Guides
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.370kg
ISBN:  

9781804691960

ISBN 10:   1804691968
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   04 October 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction PART ONE GENERAL INFORMATION Chapter 1 History Timeline, Interwar years, World War II,Aftermath Chapter 2 Practical Information Tour operators, Safety, Travelling with a disability, Travelling with children, Keeping kosher, Visiting the sites, Understanding Jewish culture PART TWO THE GUIDE Chapter 3 Austria and Switzerland Getting there and around, Online resources, Austria, Switzerland Chapter 4 The Balkans and Greece Getting there and around, Online resources, History, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Greece Chapter 5 The Baltic States Getting there and around, Online resources, History, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia Chapter 6 Belarus and Russia Getting there and around, Online resources, History, Belarus, Russia Chapter 7 Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg Getting there and around, Online resources, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg Chapter 8 The British Isles Getting there and around, Online resources, History, United Kingdom, Channel Islands Chapter 9 Czech Republic and Slovakia Getting there and around, Online resources, History, The Czech Republic, Slovakia Chapter 10 France Getting there and around, Online resources, History, Paris, Lyon, Nice, Toulouse Chapter 11 Germany Getting there and around, Online resources, History, Berlin, Hamburg, Weimar, Nuremberg, Munich Chapter 12 Hungary Getting there and around, Online resources, History, Budapest Chapter 13 Italy Getting there and around, Online resources, History, Rome, Milan, Florence, Ferrara, Trieste Chapter 14 The Nordic Countries Getting there and around, Online resources, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland Chapter 15 Poland 247 Getting there and around, Online resources, History, Warsaw, Lublin, Lodz, Krakow Chapter 16 Romania and Moldova Getting there and around, Online resources, Romania, Moldova Chapter 17 Spain and Portugal Getting there and around, Spain, Portugal Chapter 18 Ukraine Getting there, Online resources, History, Lviv, Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv Appendix 1 Glossary Appendix 2 Further Information Index

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Rosie Whitehouse is a freelance journalist specialising in Jewish life after the Holocaust. Since leaving the BBC World Service, she has written for an array of publications including the Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian and the Daily Mail, and authored the critically acclaimed book The People on the Beach: Journeys to Freedom After the Holocaust. She is a historical advisor to both the '45 Aid Society, which represents child Holocaust survivors brought to the UK in 1945-8 and their descendants, and Vienna's Centropa Institute, which is dedicated to preserving Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe. An experienced travel writer, she has written Bradt's Liguria, Cadogan and DK travel guides to France and a book chronicling the experiences of a young family coming to terms with having a dad working as a front-line reporter in the war-torn Balkans (Are We There Yet? Travels with my Frontline Family).

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