1941: the year that keeps returning

by Goldstein, Slavko

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Full title :1941 : the year that keeps returning / by Slavko Goldstein ; translated by Michael Gable and Nikola Djuretic ; introduction by Charles Simic.

Summary

A New York Review Books Original The distinguished Croatian journalist and publisher Slavko Goldstein says, "Writing this book about my family, I have tried not to separate what happened to us from the fates of many other people and of an entire country." 1941: The Year That Keeps Returning? More than fifty years later, Goldstein seeks to piece together the facts of his father?s last days. The moving narrative threads stories of family, friends, and other ordinary people who lived through those dark times together with personal memories and an impressive depth of carefully researched historic details. The other central figure in Goldstein?s heartrending tale is his mother?a strong, resourceful woman who understands how to act decisively in a time of terror in order to keep her family alive.? From 1941 through 1945 some 32,000 Jews, 40,000 Gypsies, and 350,000 Serbs were slaughtered in Croatia. It is a period in history that is often forgotten, purged, or erased from the history books, which makes Goldstein?s vivid, carefully balanced account so important for us today?for the same atrocities returned to Croatia and Bosnia in the 1990s. And yet Goldstein?s story isn?t confined by geographical boundaries as it speaks to the dangers and madness of ethnic hatred all over the world and the urgent need for mutual understanding.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):New York Review Books
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013

Notes

Originally published as: 1941 : godina koja se vraća. Zagreb : Novi Liber, 2007.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvii, 604 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781590177006, 1590177002
oclc:ocn862732765
LC Classification:DS135.C75
Dewey Decimal:949.72/022

My father. The two ranks (1941-1945) ; In the jail of the District Court ; Cell No. 15 ; The camp with the beautiful name ; The letter -- The "Vujičić Affair" and the roots of evil. The "Vujičić Affair" and the roots of evil ; Five young killers ; "All for our cause" ; The dilemmas of the Ustasha leadership ; Pavelić's genocide plan ; Veljun and Blagaj ; Glina ; About victims and numbers ; A temporary halt to genocide ; Hitler's green light ; The uprising in Lika ; The outcome of the "Karlovac case" -- One spring in Karlovac. The yellow symbol that I did not wear ; The strange suicide of Filip Reiner ; The sealed and unsealed bookshop ; Cherchez les Juifs -- Jadovno. "We are all hostages now" ; On the road to Jadovno ; The Velebit death camp -- My mother, the Ustasha, and the Partisans. Cell No. 20 ; Fanatics, yes-men, and saviors ; The uprising in Banija and Kordun ; The refuge at Banski Kovačevac ; A story of two villages ; Kraljevica and the Partisans ; Liberation.

Subjects

Assassination Autobiographies Autobiography Biographies Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical Croatia Croatia -- History -- 1918-1945 Croatia -- Karlovac (Karlovac) Goldstein, Slavko History HISTORY -- General. -- Europe Jews Jews -- Biography. -- Croatia Juifs -- Biographies. -- Croatie Karlovac (Karlovac, Croatia) -- History… Kroatien Ustaša, hrvatska revolucionarna organiz… Vujičić, Milan World War, 1939-1945 -- Croatia