Resettlers and Survivors

Gaelle Fisher is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, Germany. She holds a doctorate in history from University College London and has published articles in a range of journals, including German History, The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, and East European Politics and Societies.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: BackgroundChapter 1. Being Bukovinian before 1945: German and Jewish Bukovinians in the Habsburg Empire, Romania, and World War IIPart II: EstablishmentsChapter 2. 'Settling in the Motherland': 'Resettlers' from Bukovina in West Germany after World War IIChapter 3. 'A remarkable branch of the Jewish people': Survivors from Bukovina between Romania and Israel after World War IIPart III: EntanglementsChapter 4. 'Lost Home' and 'Area of Expulsion': Compensating for Loss at the Height of the Cold WarChapter 5. 'Sunken Cultural Landscape': Reimagining Bukovina through the Lens of LiteratureConclusionBibliographyIndex

"By establishing a new approach for Bukovina research, Resettlers and Survivors makes the reverberations of World War II visible for Europe as a whole and particularly for Bukovina Germans and Jews. It offers answers to how and why their experiences effected new conceptualizations of the past, of identity, and of home." Markus Winkler, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich"Gaelle Fisher manages, on the one hand, to provide insight into a lesser-known episode in the history of World War II. At the same time, through her own interpretation of the historical record, she illustrates through this special case a theoretical issue relevant to the concepts essential for a sociopolitical understanding of modernity and postmodernity: identity, alterity, difference, space, place, and memory." Andrei Corbea-Hoisie, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania