Remembering and imagining the holocaust: The chain of memory

Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-407

  Bigsby, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511486098     Document Type: Book

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