Holocaust City

by Tim Cole

Drawing from the ideas of critical geography and based on extensive archival research, Cole brilliantly reconstructs the formation of the Jewish ghetto during the Holocaust, focusing primarily on the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary--one of the largest created during the war, but rarely examined. Cole maps the city illustrating how spaces--cafes, theaters, bars, bathhouses--became divided in two. Throughout the book, Cole discusses how the creation of this Jewish ghetto, just like the others being built across occupied Europe, tells us a great deal about the nature of Nazism, what life was like under Nazi-occupation, and the role the ghetto actually played in the Final Solution.

Genres: Holocaust

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Professor Tim Cole is the head of the history department at Bristol University and the author of over 30 journal articles. He has published three major works on the Holocaust and has edited two academic collections. His first book, Images of the Holocaust, was awarded the Longman History Today Prize in 1999. In 2003 he published Holocaust City with Routledge, and in 2011 Traces of the Holocaust: The Making of a Jewish Ghetto.

Reviews

[Karla Jay · Rating 5 out of 5]

More research for my new novel, The Puppet Maker's Daughter to be released early January 2022.
Focus is on the creation of ghettos during WWII, in particular the ghetto in Budapest.

[Paulo Reimann · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is a good historical mix of geography, architecture and tremendous historical mistakes and choices done by good part of th Hungarians.