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Belgium and the Holocaust
About the Holocaust in Belgium.
Vreemdelingen in een wereldstad
Tot in de jaren 1920 heerste in Antwerpen al bij al een tolerant klimaat tegenover joden. 'Vreemdelingen in een wereldstad' beschrijft hoe de vreemdelingenhaat de kop opsteekt in het Antwerpen van de jaren 1930, zich aanvankelijk vooral nestelt in kringen van Belgisch-nationalisten, en niet in die van het verdraagzamer Vlaams-nationalisme, en uiteindelijk een catastrofaal culminatiepunt bereikt tijdens de bezetting. De lakse houding van vele gezagsdragers en het gebrek aan (passief) verzet in het algemeen waren uiteindelijk bepalend voor het hoge Antwerpse deportatiecijfer.
Rachel, Jacob, Paul et les autres
L'immigration des Juifs en Belgique pour échapper aux rafles et persécutions religieuses de la Gestapo À partir des années 1920, des milliers de familles juives s’installent à Bruxelles, à la recherche d’une vie meilleure. Rachel, Jacob, Paul et les autres suit l’histoire d’une vingtaine d’entre elles avant, pendant et après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, et trace le portrait de ceux qui leur sont venus en aide, comme de leurs ennemis. À travers ces récits, c’est une image tout en nuances de cette période tragique de l’histoire de Bruxelles qui se fait jour. Rachel, Jacob, Paul et les autres raconte les rafles de Juifs mais aussi d'autres moments de tension et d’émo...
The Fragility of Law
The Fragility of Law examines the ways in which, during the Second World War, the Belgian government and judicial structure became implicated in the identification, exclusion and killing of its Jewish residents, and in the theft - through Aryanization - of Jewish property. David Fraser demonstrates how a series of political and legal compromises meant that the infrastructure for antisemitic persecutions and ultimately the deaths of thousands of Belgian Jews was Belgian. Based on extensive archival research in Belgium, France, the United States and Israel, The Fragility of Law offers the first detailed exploration in English of this intriguing and virtually unexplored episode of Holocaust his...
Affirming and Living with Differences
The multi-cultural society is under enormous pressure. Paradoxically, the globalization plans of modernity have resulted in a more fragmented world and ensuing violence. Instead of becoming uniform, individual character and differences have become more strongly emphasized. How can people live together and at the same time preserve their differences? How can variety be valued in a theological manner? These questions form the theme of this collection that consists of three sections. The South African reflections (Simon, Louw and Koopman) that consider living in the variety of a rainbow nation are followed by European experiences of Moluccan Christians in the Netherlands (Pattikayhatu), Western Muslims (van Bommel) and the Belgian modus vivendi (Van der Borght). The collection is completed by the theological reflections about the concept communio sanctorum (Le Bruyns), the Enlightenment's ideal of equality (van de Beek) and the unity of the church (Theron).
A Tailor in Auschwitz
David Van Turnhout and Dirk Verhofstadt traced the story of David's Jewish grandfather, Ide Leib Kartuz. Fleeing from antisemitism and violence, he came to Antwerp in 1929 and set up business as a tailor. The family he left behind ended up in the ghetto of Radomsko. Each and every member of the family was gassed at Treblinka. In Belgium, Kartuz joined the resistance movement, but was arrested by the Nazis in 1942 and deported to Auschwitz. On arrival there, his wife and two children immediately died a horrible death. He survived in a unit of tailors where he repaired camp clothing and SS guards' uniforms, sometimes receiving special orders from SS officers. Kartuz endured an inhuman death ma...
Survivors
The first comprehensive study of Jewish survival in western Europe in all its forms during the Holocaust.
Haat is een deugd
Lieven Saerens beschrijft in Haat is een deugd het dodelijk parcours van drie Antwerpse Jodenjagers tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Al voor de oorlog dwepen ze met hun Jodenhaat en ze worden dan ook nazi's van het eerste uur. Saerens legt het perverse denken van de drie Jodenhaters en hun kompanen bloot aan de hand van talrijke getuigenissen en authentiek beeldmateriaal. Hij levert met dit boek opnieuw baanbrekend onderzoek naar de wortels van het antisemitisme in Vlaanderen en spit ook nieuwe details boven over de medewerking van de Antwerpse autoriteiten aan de Jodenvervolging.
Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this doing of memory new questions about the cultural dimensions of memory arise: How do art objects and artistic practices perform the past in the present? What is their relationship to the archive? Does the past speak in the performed past (or do we speak to it)? To what purpose do objects "recall"? And for whom do they recollect? Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.
Nazi Europe and the Final Solution
In recent years scholars and researchers have turned their attention to the attitudes of ordinary men [and women]A during the period of the persecution of the Jews in occupied Europe. This comprehensive work addresses the disturbing question of how people reacted when their neighbours were ostracized, humiliated, deported and later murdered.
