Gates of Tears
The Holocaust in the Lublin District
9789653084643
498 pages
Yad Vashem Publications
Overview
This book examines the Shoah in the Lublin District, an area central to Nazi anti-Jewish policy. Its analysis traces forced population movements and forced labor, constants in German policy, the bitter early memory of which influenced Jews’ later actions. Many hid or fled the deportations, fearing an extreme return of earlier experience. Lublin was a contradictory district – few ghettos yet little survival. The Jews could not significantly affect their collective fate.Author Bio
David Silberklang is Senior Historian at the International Institute for Holocaust Research in Yad Vashem. He also teaches in the graduate program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa. Among his past functions at Yad Vashem, David was Editor of Yad Vashem Studies; Series Editor of the The Holocaust Survivors' Memoirs Project; Chief Historian of the Museum Development Project; and he represented Israel at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for many years on academic committees, steering committees, and planning teams.
His book, Gates of Tears: The Holocaust in the Lublin District was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and for the Yad Vashem International Book Prize in Holocaust Research. He is currently co-authoring and editing The History of the Holocaust in Poland.