Holocaust Studies

Confronting the Holocaust: Mark Donskoi's The Unvanquished

by Jeremy Hicks

Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel

by Sarah Willen

2010. “Darfur through a Shoah Lens: Sudanese Asylum Seekers, Unruly Biopolitical Dramas, and the Politics of Humanitarian Compassion in Israel.” In A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities, eds. Byron Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sarah S. Willen, Michael M.J. Fischer. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

L'Hyperpolitique Du «Plus Jamais ça!»: Demandeurs D'Asile Soudanais, Turbulence Gouvernementale Et Politiques De Contrôle Des Réfugiés En Israël

by Sarah Willen

Willen, Sarah S. 2008. “L’hyperpolitique du 'Plus jamais ça!': demandeurs d'asile soudanais, turbulence gouvernementale et politiques de contrôle des réfugiés en Israël.” Cultures et Conflits: Sociologie Politique de l'International 71(3): 93-112.

Zionist film propaganda in Nazi Germany

by Jan-Christopher Horak

Sa podignutim rukama (With Raised Hands, 1985) - Reprezentacija kao polje nemoći (i) konstrukcije sećanja

by Dragana Stojanovic

Published in Naša mesta, specijalni tematski dodatak uz 16. broj časopisa Nova misao, IU „Misao“, Novi Sad, 2012, 60-63. Published in Naša mesta, specijalni tematski dodatak uz 16. broj časopisa Nova misao, IU „Misao“, Novi Sad, 2012, 60-63.

‘„Řekla jsem si, že se prostě musím nějak přizpůsobit:” Mladé české ženy v ghettu Terezín,’ [“I Said to Myself I Simply Have to Adapt One Way Or Another:” Young Czech Women in Terezín Ghetto]

by Anna Hajkova

Soudobé Dějiny 4, 18 (2011): 603-628

Women’s memories tell different stories about Terezín ghetto than men: but which, and what are the mechanisms behind... more Women’s memories tell different stories about Terezín ghetto than men: but which, and what are the mechanisms behind it?
In the center of my research stands the adaptation and coping mechanisms of women in Terezín: How did their everyday life look like? Which roles did they take in? I analyze the gender specific aspects of Czech Jewish women’s lives in Terezín; moreover, I focus on how does it influence their narratives as we know them today. The core of my researched is based on a sample of thirty biographic interviews from the 1990s, combined with various contemporaneous sources. Having experienced the deportation chiefly in their twenties, they represent middle-class, assimilated, emancipated, mostly Czech speaking women.
The young Czech women inmates usually abandoned their pre-deportation individual course of life as a modern, independent woman and shifted towards a strongly gendered, supportive role, focusing on the family and collective. I examine the relationship between the shift in the social role of women, formation of networks and groups and their survival chances. Thus analyzing the position of women in particular and gender in general helps us recognize the power relationships within the enforced community.

Summary of Pacelli Canonization: Christendom as the Schema Pius XII used to view the Third Reich

by Thomas Driscoll

Barbara Engelking Jest taki piekny słoneczny dzień: Losy Żydów szukających ratunku na wsi polskiej 1942-1945 [It was such a beautiful sunny day: The fate of Jews seeking salvation in the Polish countryside, 1942-1945] (Warsaw: Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów/ Polish Center for Holocaust Research Association, 2011). pp. 292 ISBN 978-83-932202-1-2; Jan Grabowski Judenjagd: Polowanie na Żydów 1942-1945. Studium dziejów pewnego powiatu [The hunt for Jews 1942-1945. A study of one county] (Warsaw: Centrum Badań nad Zagładą Żydów/ Polish Center for Holocaust Research Association, 2011). pp. 262 ISBN 978-83-932202-0-5; ISBN 978-83-932202-3-6; Jan Tomasz Gross, Irena Grudzińska-Gross Złote żniwa: Rzecz o tym, co się działo na obrzeżach zagłady Żydów [Golden harvest. Report on events at the periphery of the Holocaust] (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Znak, 2011). pp. 205 ISBN 978-83-240-1523-8; ISBN 978-83-240-1522-1

by Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe

English translation by the American Association for Polish-Jewish Studies

Early 2011 saw the publication in Poland of three noteworthy studies exploring Polish behaviour toward the Jews during... more Early 2011 saw the publication in Poland of three noteworthy studies exploring Polish behaviour toward the Jews during World War II and the various forms of Polish participation in the Holocaust. These publications clearly advance the state of research, although they do not completely exhaust the topic, or even come close to that. They interrogate the image of the Holocaust as a largely German undertaking that has had a strong presence both in German and Polish research down to the present. The existence of this image is bound up with the historiographic circumstance that now as before, German Holocaust research is more closely connected with the German regime of occupation or the German Einsatzgruppen and execution units and less with the population under occupation, and in this way concentrates on the perspective of the German perpetrators. There is a concomitant tendency to neglect the perspective of the non-German perpetrators (and in part also that of the victims). By contrast, Polish Holocaust research has until recently viewed the Poles solely as victims of the National Socialist regime of occupation, and seen the murder of the Jews as an exclusively German matter. All three publications are written contra these continuing tendencies in thought and inquiry.

Tuned to the nation's mood: Popular music as a mnemonic cultural object

by Eyal Zandberg

Questions Following the Major Questions Arising from the Holocaust - Guy Stiebel meeting Muli Ben-Sasson

by Guy Stiebel

In: Arieli-Horowitz D. and Bartal O. (eds.), Protocols 24 (Zug o Pered), 2012

General semantics and Holocaust denial

by Andrew E. Mathis

“Alvin Gilens’ Images of Dora”

by William Coleman

Exposure, v. 40, no. 1. (Spring 2007), p. 54.

Viewing the delayed subtitle in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah through Gilles Deleuze’s notion of a-chronological cinematic time (May 2011)

by Lara Choksey

Available on request.

Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah unfolds in six languages (French, German, English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish), and the... more Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah unfolds in six languages (French, German, English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish), and the anxiety of translation is never removed from the images on screen. The onscreen Lanzmann spends a good deal of the film speaking through translators and in turn receiving accounts through a third-party. This issue of definitive translation founds one of the principle anxieties within the film – the fear of things being lost in the journeys between speech. The film might be considered to be constructed around the void of these lost things.
Shoah’s subtitles are a constant reminder of this anxiety, and this paper examines the relationship between subtitle, image and time in Lanzmann’s film. Rather than understanding the subtitle as a mediator between screen and spectator, as a facilitative device for comprehension, this paper looks at the way that time intersects with the subtitled image, and how these intersections provide a space for perceiving the fracture between representation and interpretation.
I employ Deleuze’s notion of the time-image to argue that the mechanics of waiting in Shoah displace the notion of rational progression with a sense of perpetual delay. This delay involves a negotiation with translation through the confounding of finite comprehension, by suspending the translation of images and thereby leaving open a space for multiple and contradictory accounts.

Il percorso storiografico cattolico tedesco sulla Shoah 1945-2000

by Massimo Faggioli

„Arisierungsnetzwerke“ – Akteurskonstellationen, Arbeitsteilung und Interessenskonflikte bei der „Arisierung“ größerer Unternehmen in Frankreich 1940-1944

by Aurélie Audeval

Co-authored with Martin JUNGIUS, Marie MUSCHALEK, Jörg RAAB published in "Francia" Band 32/3 (2005)

Past Continuous: Newsworthiness and the Shaping of Collective Memory

by Motti Neiger

Co-authored with Eyal Zandberg and Oren Meyers
Published in "Critical Studies in Media Communication"

Keywords: Collective memory; Newsworthiness; Commemoration; Newscasts; Holocaust

This study explores the multi-layered interrelations between the production of news and collective remembering. We... more This study explores the multi-layered interrelations between the production of news and collective remembering. We investigate this phenomenon by analyzing television newscasts aired on Israel’s Memorial Day for the Holocaust and Heroism (MDHH), 1994
-2007. These newscasts provide a rich research corpus because they stand at the intersection between two types of rituals: the everyday ritual of newsmaking, and the national commemorative ritual, for which the media serves as a main site of articulation.
The article implements a ‘‘zoom in’’ perspective: first, we examine the broadcasting schedules, exploring the role of newscasts in the process of leading the audiences in and
out of the commemorative ritual. Next, we suggest a typology distinguishing between (a) items dealing with current events, (b) commemorative items focusing on Holocaust remembrance, and (c) dog whistle items that are ‘‘attuned’’ to the specific cultural ear and thus enable mundane news items to be interpreted as related to Holocaust commemoration.
We argue that the dual aim of the items featured in MDHH newscasts
to provide both news values and commemorative values
leads to the construction of ‘‘reversed memory,’’
a narrative that commemorates past events (the ‘‘there and then’’) by narrating present events (the ‘‘here and now’’). Reversed memory commemorates the difficult past through the achievements of the present, and thus not only eases the collective confrontation with painful traumas, but rather avoids this encounter altogether.

Keywords: Collective memory; Newsworthiness; Commemoration; Newscasts; Holocaust

Thomas Kühne, Review of Marc Buggeln, Arbeit und Gewalt. Das Außenlagersystem des KZ Neuengamme (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2009), and Elissa Mailänder Koslov, Die SS-Aufseherinnen des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Majdanek 1942-1944 (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2009), reviewed for WerkstattGeschichte, no. 54 (2010): 105-108.

by Thomas Kühne

Der Holocaust in der Geschichte Ostmitteleuropas

by Katrin Steffen

in: Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt 1939 in den Erinnerungskulturen der Europäer, hg. von A. Kaminsky, D. Müller und S. Troebst, Göttingen 2011

http://www.wallstein-verlag.de/autorbiographie/9783835309371.html

Review of Mirjam Bolle, Ik zal je beschrijven hoe een dag er hier uitziet: Dagboekbrieven uit Amsterdam, Westerbork en Bergen-Belsen [English title: To Leo with Love: Letters from Amsterdam, Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, 1943-1944] (Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Contact, 2005) in: Jahrbuch des Zentrum für Niederlande-Studien 11(2006): 229-230

by Anna Hajkova

Literature and Evil

by James Mensch