{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,6]],"date-time":"2026-02-06T22:55:12Z","timestamp":1770418512437,"version":"3.49.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"Vittorio Klostermann GMBH","issue":"1","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["ZfBB"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2009]]},"abstract":"<p>Ende 2007 erwarb die Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek im Rahmen ihres gesetzlichen Auftrages, die in Niedersachsen erscheinenden Publikationen zu sammeln, zwei hebr\u00e4ische B\u00fccher, die in Bergen-Belsen - wahrscheinlich im Jahr 1947 - gedruckt wurden. Es handelt sich um Nachdrucke religi\u00f6ser j\u00fcdischer Schriften, die im 19. Jahrhundert in Polen entstanden sind.1 Der Erscheinungsvermerk machte stutzig und f\u00fchrte zur Besch\u00e4ftigung mit der Entstehungsgeschichte der mit schlechtem Papier und einfachen Pappeinb\u00e4nden versehenen Drucke. Sehr schnell wurde klar, dass die beiden B\u00e4nde im Displaced-Persons(DP)Camp Bergen-Hohne entstanden waren, dem gr\u00f6\u00dften Auffanglager f\u00fcr \u00fcberlebende europ\u00e4ische Juden in der britischen Besatzungszone.\n\u00dcber die Produktionsumst\u00e4nde, d. h. \u00fcber die Geschichte der Druckerei im Lager ist wenig bekannt. Dies ist umso bedauerlicher, als das Wissen um den j\u00fcdischen Buchdruck in Deutschland nach 1945 nicht nur die enge Verkn\u00fcpfung zwischen j\u00fcdischer Kultur und B\u00fcchern erhellt, sondern auch tief in die Mentalit\u00e4t der j\u00fcdischen Holocaust\u00fcberlebenden hineinf\u00fchrt. Mehr Informationen besitzen wir \u00fcber die Bibliothek des Lagers, deren Geschichte hier ebenfalls zu Wort kommen soll, um die Bedeutung des j\u00fcdischen Buchbesitzes in der unmittelbaren deutschen Nachkriegsgeschichte zu w\u00fcrdigen. \nIn 2007 the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library in Hanover acquired two Hebraic reprints of religious Judaic manuscripts written in Poland in the 19th century. These reprints were created - probably in 1947 - in the Displaced Persons Camp Bergen-Belsen. Immediately after WW2 it served as a way station primarily for East European Jews and was the largest of its kind in the British Occupation Zone. As a means for mourning and a way to instill hope in the future, these books played a special role in the lives of Holocaust survivors. Books represented a homeland for Jews in the Diaspora and gave expression both to mourning and to the joy of being (still) alive. Consequently, the nearly complete lack of any books in the camp initially posed a considerable problem.In Bergen-Belsen, as in other displaced persons camps, the Jewish Autonomous Administration quickly began to establish libraries and publish their own works - primarily political, religious and historical works for general reading.This article traces the history of the press and the library of the DP Camp Bergen-Belsen and gives recognition to the significance of the Hebrew and Jewish book culture for the Holocaust survivors who had to restart their lives after 1945.<\/p>","DOI":"10.3196\/186429500956132","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,17]],"date-time":"2014-06-17T05:50:19Z","timestamp":1402984219000},"page":"20-29","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["B\u00fccher zum Trauern und zum Leben - \nDruckerei und Bibliothek im Displaced-Persons-Camp Bergen-Belsen (1945-1950)"],"prefix":"10.3196","volume":"56","author":[{"given":"Anne-Katrin","family":"Henkel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1809","container-title":["Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie"],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,6]],"date-time":"2026-02-06T11:54:31Z","timestamp":1770378871000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.inlibra.com\/index.php?doi=10.3196\/186429500956132"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2009]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2009]]}},"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3196\/186429500956132","relation":{},"ISSN":["1864-2950"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1864-2950","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2009]]}}}