Laura J Hilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 5713862 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura J Hilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilton |
| SIGNATURE | HILTON L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Muskingum University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9275-1367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Wir Sind So Weit … The Story of a Jewish Family in Nazi Europe, Memories and Thoughts, 1939–1945
Journal Article Wir Sind So Weit ... The Story of a Jewish Family in Nazi Europe, Memories and Thoughts, 1939–1945 Get access Wir Sind So Weit ... The Story of a Jewish Family in Nazi Europe, Memories and Thoughts, 1939–1945, Menachem Mendel Selinger, translated by Robert Burns (Milan: il Faggio, 2020), 3 vols., 800 pp., hardcover $150.00, electronic version available. Laura J Hilton Laura J Hilton Muskingum University, New Concord, Ohio, USA Sea…
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Who Was ‘Worthy’? How Empathy Drove Policy Decisions about the Uprooted in Occupied Germany, 1945–1948
This article situates the experiences of Baltic, Jewish, and Polish Displaced Persons within the overlapping stories of occupation policy, refugee circumstances, the gathering Cold War, and the process of rebuilding Germany. Using evidence from both the British and American Zones of Occupation, it explains the symbiotic processes of labeling the various groups of the uprooted and the shifting feelings of empathy that occupation authorities experi…
Escape from hell
In April of 1944, two Slovakian Jews, Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, successfully escaped from Auschwitz bringing with them personal knowledge and documents to prove the scale and brutality of the
The Black Market in History and Memory
Using recent scholarship on memory and German identity formation as a springboard, this article examines the illicit trade that flourished in the immediate postwar period to probe the creation of a community of fate, one that emphasized its victimhood. It explores both contemporary perceptions and the memory of the black market from multiple viewpoints, the occupiers, the Germans and the Displaced Persons (DPs). Rather than treating the illicit t…
Cultural Nationalism in Exile
Partners in Wonder
Ringside
Men of Tomorrow
Forced Foreign Labourers, POWs and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich
Forced Foreign Labourers, POWs and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich: Regional Studies and New Directions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, August 2003 Get access Laura J. Hilton, Laura J. Hilton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John J. Delaney John J. Delaney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 83–95,…
The New Germany and Migration in Europe
Part 1 West Germany and migration, 1945-1989: refugees, foreigners, ethnic Germans and seekers. Part 2 The impact of migration in the new Germany: who migrates? some facts and figures - general trends - foreigners, irregular migration, temporary labour, ethnic Germans, resettlers, Jews, seekers the socio-economic impact of migration - migrants in the economy and the labour market, migrant and the welfare state security aspects. Part 3 The problem…
The Black Market in History and Memory
Using recent scholarship on memory and German identity formation as a springboard, this article examines the illicit trade that flourished in the immediate postwar period to probe the creation of a community of fate, one that emphasized its victimhood. It explores both contemporary perceptions and the memory of the black market from multiple viewpoints, the occupiers, the Germans and the Displaced Persons (DPs). Rather than treating the illicit t…
Ringside
Men of Tomorrow
Forced Foreign Labourers, POWs and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich
Forced Foreign Labourers, POWs and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich: Regional Studies and New Directions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, August 2003 Get access Laura J. Hilton, Laura J. Hilton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John J. Delaney John J. Delaney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 83–95,…
Who Was ‘Worthy’? How Empathy Drove Policy Decisions about the Uprooted in Occupied Germany, 1945–1948
This article situates the experiences of Baltic, Jewish, and Polish Displaced Persons within the overlapping stories of occupation policy, refugee circumstances, the gathering Cold War, and the process of rebuilding Germany. Using evidence from both the British and American Zones of Occupation, it explains the symbiotic processes of labeling the various groups of the uprooted and the shifting feelings of empathy that occupation authorities experi…
The New Germany and Migration in Europe
Part 1 West Germany and migration, 1945-1989: refugees, foreigners, ethnic Germans and seekers. Part 2 The impact of migration in the new Germany: who migrates? some facts and figures - general trends - foreigners, irregular migration, temporary labour, ethnic Germans, resettlers, Jews, seekers the socio-economic impact of migration - migrants in the economy and the labour market, migrant and the welfare state security aspects. Part 3 The problem…
Forced Foreign Labourers, POWs and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich
Forced Foreign Labourers, POWs and Jewish Slave Workers in the Third Reich: Regional Studies and New Directions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, August 2003 Get access Laura J. Hilton, Laura J. Hilton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John J. Delaney John J. Delaney Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2005, Pages 83–95,…
Men of Tomorrow
Ringside
Partners in Wonder
Cultural Nationalism in Exile
The Black Market in History and Memory
Using recent scholarship on memory and German identity formation as a springboard, this article examines the illicit trade that flourished in the immediate postwar period to probe the creation of a community of fate, one that emphasized its victimhood. It explores both contemporary perceptions and the memory of the black market from multiple viewpoints, the occupiers, the Germans and the Displaced Persons (DPs). Rather than treating the illicit t…
Escape from hell
In April of 1944, two Slovakian Jews, Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba, successfully escaped from Auschwitz bringing with them personal knowledge and documents to prove the scale and brutality of the
Who Was ‘Worthy’? How Empathy Drove Policy Decisions about the Uprooted in Occupied Germany, 1945–1948
This article situates the experiences of Baltic, Jewish, and Polish Displaced Persons within the overlapping stories of occupation policy, refugee circumstances, the gathering Cold War, and the process of rebuilding Germany. Using evidence from both the British and American Zones of Occupation, it explains the symbiotic processes of labeling the various groups of the uprooted and the shifting feelings of empathy that occupation authorities experi…
Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust
Wir Sind So Weit … The Story of a Jewish Family in Nazi Europe, Memories and Thoughts, 1939–1945
Journal Article Wir Sind So Weit ... The Story of a Jewish Family in Nazi Europe, Memories and Thoughts, 1939–1945 Get access Wir Sind So Weit ... The Story of a Jewish Family in Nazi Europe, Memories and Thoughts, 1939–1945, Menachem Mendel Selinger, translated by Robert Burns (Milan: il Faggio, 2020), 3 vols., 800 pp., hardcover $150.00, electronic version available. Laura J Hilton Laura J Hilton Muskingum University, New Concord, Ohio, USA Sea…
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