As an alternative, the Kindle eBook is available now and can be read on any device with the free Kindle app.

Share <Embed>

Flip to back Flip to front

Listen Playing... Paused You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.
Learn more

See all 2 images

Follow the Author

Dan Stone

The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath Hardcover – May 19, 2015

by Dan Stone (Author)

24 ratings

See all formats and editions

Price

New from

Used from

eTextbook

"Please retry"

$26.99

—

Hardcover

"Please retry"

$15.67

—

$15.67

A moving, deeply researched account of survivors’ experiences of liberation from Nazi death camps and the long, difficult years that followed

Seventy years have passed since the tortured inmates of Hitler’s concentration and extermination camps were liberated. When the horror of the atrocities came fully to light, it was easy for others to imagine the joyful relief of freed prisoners. Yet for those who had survived the unimaginable, the experience of liberation was a slow, grueling journey back to life. In this unprecedented inquiry into the days, months, and years following the arrival of Allied forces at the Nazi camps, a foremost historian of the Holocaust draws on archival sources and especially on eyewitness testimonies to reveal the complex challenges liberated victims faced and the daunting tasks their liberators undertook to help them reclaim their shattered lives.

Historian Dan Stone focuses on the survivors—their feelings of guilt, exhaustion, fear, shame for having survived, and devastating grief for lost family members; their immense medical problems; and their later demands to be released from Displaced Persons camps and resettled in countries of their own choosing. Stone also tracks the efforts of British, American, Canadian, and Russian liberators as they contended with survivors’ immediate needs, then grappled with longer-term issues that shaped the postwar world and ushered in the first chill of the Cold War years ahead.

Print length

288 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Yale University Press
Publication date

May 19, 2015
Dimensions

6.13 x 1 x 9.25 inches
ISBN-10

0300204574
ISBN-13

978-0300204575
See all details

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

John C. McManus
42
Paperback
21 offers from $12.96
Jack Fairweather
2,561
Hardcover
101 offers from $2.60
Robert H. Abzug
25
Paperback
73 offers from $1.62
Michael Hirsh
71
Hardcover
60 offers from $1.80
Dan Stone
Hardcover
14 offers from $47.92
Arie Tamir
530
Paperback
in Jewish Sermons
13 offers from $13.94

Customers who bought this item also bought

Page 1 of 1 Start overPage 1 of 1

Carol Leonnig
2,629
Hardcover
38 offers from $16.00
Michael Wolff
1,664
Hardcover
45 offers from $13.98
John C. McManus
42
Paperback
21 offers from $12.96
Tim Cole
6
Hardcover
35 offers from $10.96
Annette Wieviorka
3
Paperback
30 offers from $13.94
Wendy Lower
606
Paperback
87 offers from $2.91

Editorial Reviews

Review

"In recent years, Dan Stone's name has been a guarantee of quality... A clear step in the right direction, it focuses on the centre-piece of western Holocaust memory -- the moment when the American and British armies, in April 1945, made the shocking discovery of the concentration camps in Germany."--Jan Lanicek, History--Jan Lanicek"History" (05/01/2017)

"[An] engrossing and illuminating book--the first full and comparative study of the subject."--Richard J./I>--Richard J. Evans "New York Review of Books "

'...a thoughtful, sensitive and well-researched treatment of an important and rarely covered subject.'--Rodger Moorhouse, BBC History Magazine.--Roger Moorhouse"BBC History Magazine" (06/01/2015)

'The real power of Stone's history lies in a sense in of indomitable vigour and self-belief... Stone does a good job of showing how even as nations declared peace, individuals and families still had to fight on desperately.'--Sinclair Mckay, the Daily Telegraph. --Sinclair Mckay"The Daily Telegraph" (05/09/2015)

"[An] engrossing and illuminating book the first full and comparative study of the subject." Richard J./i>--Richard J. Evans "New York Review of Books ""

The real power of Stone s history lies in a sense in of indomitable vigour and self-belief Stone does a good job of showing how even as nations declared peace, individuals and families still had to fight on desperately. Sinclair Mckay, "the Daily Telegraph."--Sinclair Mckay"The Daily Telegraph" (05/09/2015)"

About the Author

Dan Stone is professor of modern history, Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published fifteen books on the Holocaust, genocide, and twentieth-century European history, including most recently Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe Since 1945. He lives in London.

Start reading The Liberation of the Camps on your Kindle in under a minute.

Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; Illustrated edition (May 19, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0300204574
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300204575
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.29 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,280,537 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2,698 in Jewish Holocaust History
- #13,194 in World War II History (Books)

Customer Reviews:
24 ratings

Customer reviews

5 star		57%
4 star		24%
3 star		6%
2 star		6%
1 star		7%

How are ratings calculated?

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

TomatoQueen

Good introductory work

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2015

Verified Purchase

Other works published elsewhere have told the various camp histories in greater detail, while this book broadens the focus and for the general reader is a good introduction to this phase of the war. Paired with The Liberators, which tells the liberation story chiefly through interviews with soldiers and others who were there, one gets a sense of the experience as lived and of how short the transition time from horror and despair to the glimmerings of hope. For the reader new to the subject, this is a very good place to start.

6 people found this helpful

Helpful

R. L. ANDERSON

Not worth price or worth reading.

Reviewed in the United States on June 18, 2018

Verified Purchase

Just read introduction. Author keeps downplaying how Jews were main target of Holocaust & how it was Nazis' goal to exterminate Jews.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

Karen Weiss

A Must Read Historical Account Following Concentration Camp Liberation

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2015

Verified Purchase

This was a detailed and heart wrenching account of what happened to those victims of Concentration Camps as the war ended.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

n735wb.

Well written, filled with an abundance of well-selected facts ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2016

Verified Purchase

Well written, filled with an abundance of well-selected facts and first person accounts. As an author (L.Douglas Keeney) I couldn't put it down

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Carrie Ann Dunne

Should be added to school curriculum.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2016

Verified Purchase

Amazing at the same time sad, depressing and outrageously horrendous.

One person found this helpful

Helpful

suzanne m. douglass

Well done

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2015

Verified Purchase

Sad

Helpful

M. Lackner

Sad, but we should never forget

Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2015

Verified Purchase

Added to my library of Holocaust

Helpful

Morris

Good Addition to Holocaust Literature

Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2015

“The Liberation of the Camps” is a book that manages to make itself unique in a history genre that can feel a bit crowded at times.

What sets the book apart is the liberal use of primary sources from a variety of different situations that occurred after liberation. Many of them, including the fact that many Survivors were kept in the camp for a long period after the actual liberation, are unknown to many people. It’s a very comprehensive resource for those with an interest in Holocaust history.

The one major flaw is that it can be dry at times. It’s definitely by an academic and meant for those with a scholarly interest in the Holocaust, but even by those standards it can be dry. I have a degree in history, so feel like I have seen both sides of the “dry history” spectrum. This one is not awful, simply dry in the medium range on the spectrum. Not enough to be boring, but not something to be consumed in large doses.

Overall, the content and primary sources make “The Liberation of the Camps” worth the time for those with an academic interest in the Holocaust. However, for anyone else it would probably be a bit of a bore. Four stars are given for the wealth of information provided, not the writing itself.

This review is based upon a complimentary copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

13 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Fredkw

Very interesting book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 4, 2016

Verified Purchase

Fascinating reading. Pulls no punches.

CB

CB book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 15, 2015

Verified Purchase

Great book

Al

Displaced Persons camps

Reviewed in Canada on April 18, 2017

Verified Purchase

Dan Stone has researched this subject well and written a very worthwhile, easily accessible book about the Displaced Persons camps in Europe at the end of World War 2 and after. When that war ended, the Allies kept the inmates of the German concentration camps in camps, often on the same site, in some cases until 1952. Stone recounts the inmates' stories, with an emphasis on the Jewish inmates. Interesting look at their attitudes, especially as the West tried to help rebuild West Germany. Many inmates watched the rebuilding resentfully, from inside the camps.

Kosmische

I was interested that the author failed to mention the ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2015

Verified Purchase

I was interested that the author failed to mention the killing of SS guards by American solders at Dachau, so appalled were they at what they found. I discovered this when watching a BBC documentary some time ago about the same subject, and assume this happened elsewhere. I heard a British officer describe killing some Hitler Youth 'guards' at Belsen although was to stop them killing prisoners.So, why was none of this mentioned? By the way, I do not intend to be critical of the soldiers involved: I have no idea how the liberators must have felt to encounter the unimaginable and the be faced with the perpetrators of this. I guess it didn't happen more happen more often because the guards had in most cases fled.

Also, I'd have been interested in a section about what liberation meant for the perpetrators. I know a number guards were captured at liberation having seen some interviews with them after capture, I think, in the same documentary. Also, what about the townspeople who were forced to visit the camps by Eisenhower and others. It would have been interesting to hear from them.

4 people found this helpful

Ms. C. M. Stanley

very detailed and well researched - we tend to think ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 24, 2015

Verified Purchase

very detailed and well researched - we tend to think the survivors were liberated and that was that. This shows the true aftermath.

See all reviews

Follow the Author

Similar authors to follow

The Liberation of the Camps: The End of the Holocaust and Its Aftermath Hardcover – May 19, 2015

Customers who viewed this item also viewed

Customers who bought this item also bought

Editorial Reviews

Review

About the Author

Product details

Customer reviews

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries