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Lessons and Legacies XV
The fifteenth volume in the Lessons & Legacies series, featuring multidisciplinary research in the Holocaust and Jewish cultural history on the theme of Global Perspectives and National Narratives. The fourteen chapters included in this volume manifest three broad categories: history, literature, and memory. These chapters continue the recent trend in Holocaust Studies of a focus on local history, integrating specific regional and national narratives into a more global approach to the event. Newer studies have continued to incorporate what was once termed the periphery into a more global examination of the experiences of Jewish refugees in flight to Latin America, Africa, and the Soviet Unio...
Space in Holocaust Research
In recent years, the issue of space has sparked debates in the field of Holocaust Studies. The book demonstrates the transdisciplinary potential of space-related approaches. The editors suggest that “spatial thinking” can foster a dialogue on the history, aftermath, and memory of the Holocaust that transcends disciplinary boundaries. Artworks by Yael Atzmony serve as a prologue to the volume, inviting us to reflect on the complicated relation of the actual crime site of the Sobibor extermination camp to (family) memory, archival sources, and material traces. In the first part of the book, renowned scholars introduce readers to the relevance of space for key aspects of Holocaust Studies. ...
Views of Violence
Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. Within Europe, one of the key sites for such representation has been the vast array of museums and memorials that reflect contemporary ideas of war, the roles of soldiers and civilians, and the self-perception of those who remember. This volume takes a historical perspective on museums covering the Second World War and explores how these institutions came to define political contexts and cultures of public memory in Germany, across Europe, and throughout the world.
Fate Unknown
Dan Stone tells the story of the last great unknown archive of Nazism, the International Tracing Service. Set up by the Allies at the end of World War II, the ITS has worked until today to find missing persons and to aid survivors with restitution claims or to reunite them with loved ones. From retracing the steps of the 'death marches' with the aim of discovering the burial sites of those murdered across the towns and villages of Central Europe, to knocking on doors of German foster homes to find the children of forced labourers, Fate Unknown uncovers the history of this remarkable archive and its more than 30 million documents. Under the leadership of the International Committee of the Red...
Erinnerungspraxis zwischen gestern und morgen
Wie verändert sich das Erinnern an den Nationalsozialismus und die Shoah aktuell? Studierende des Ludwig-Uhland-Instituts und aus dem Rabb Centre for Holocaust Studies der Ben Gurion University of the Negev sind dieser Frage gemeinsam in Deutschland und Israel nachgegangen. In zwölf Aufsätzen analysieren sie wichtige Fragen der (regionalen) Erinnerungskultur: Welche neuen Umgangsweisen haben sich etabliert durch multimediale Angebote wie die App zu Erinnerungsorten in Reutlingen oder durch neue didaktische Konzepte wie die Tübinger Jugendguides? Was hat es mit den privaten Gedenkzeremonien in israelischen Wohnzimmern auf sich? Welche Funktion haben Gästebücher für das emotionale Erleben von Gedenkstätten? Und wie verändern die Sozialen Medien unseren Blick auf die Orte der NS-Verbrechen?
Perpetration and Complicity Under Nazism and Beyond
"An examination of perpetration and complicity under National Socialism and beyond which covers self-understandings, representations and narratives of involvement in collective violence both at the time and later"--
The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum
The Second World War is omnipresent in contemporary memory debates. As the war fades from living memory, this study is the first to systematically analyze how Second World War museums allow prototypical visitors to comprehend and experience the past. It analyzes twelve permanent exhibitions in Europe and North America – including the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, the House of European History in Brussels, the Imperial War Museums in London and Manchester, and the National WWII Museum in New Orleans – in order to show how museums reflect and shape cultural memory, as well as their cognitive, ethical, emotional, and aesthetic ...
Nationalsozialistische Täterinnen und Täter in Ausstellungen
Die Darstellung von nationalsozialistischen Täterinnen und Tätern in Ausstellungen wurde bislang kaum untersucht. Welche Erklärungen und Deutungsangebote werden für die Täterinnen- und Täterschaft gegeben und welche (womöglich auch nicht intendierten) Aussagen entstehen durch die Ausstellungsgestaltung? Werden die Handelnden und ihre Taten mit geschlechtlichen Codierungen belegt? Inwiefern werden Forschungsergebnisse zu NS-Täterschaft in Ausstellungsaussagen transformiert? Und bildet das in Ausstellungen Gezeigte tatsächlich das kulturelle Gedächtnis von Gesellschaften ab? Diese Fragen beantwortet Sarah Kleinmann anhand der Analyse von sieben ständigen Ausstellungen in Dokumentationszentren und Gedenkstätten in Deutschland und Österreich. Sie untersucht die Expositionen vor Ort, interviewt Verantwortliche und setzt die so erhobenen Daten in den Kontext von NS-Täterforschung, Gedächtnistheorien, Museumsforschung und der Entwicklung des Umgangs mit den nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen nach 1945.
Responses to Nazi Perpetration in Fiction
"Looking at novels by authors from countries directly involved in and affected by genocidal violence and its legacies, this open access book analyses representations of Nazi perpetration and complicity. It considers how these novels challenge our understanding of perpetration and complicity, how they point to different types of complicit involvement that continue into the present, and how they explore the potential for countering complicity. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI"--
Bridging Fluid Borders
Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas. Through an examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between France’s overseas department of French Guiana and Brazil’s northern state of Amapá, which effectively acts as a one-way street and serves to perpetuate inequalities in a historically deeply entangled region, it foregrounds the ways in which borderland inhabitants such as indigenous women, illegalised migrants, and local politicians deal with these inequalities and the increasingly closed Amazonian border in everyday life. A study that challenges the coloniality of memory, this volume shows how the borderland along and across the Oyapock River, far from being the hinterland of France and Brazil, in fact illuminates entangled histories and their concomitant inequalities on a large scale. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and border studies with interests in postcolonialism, memory, and inequality.
