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“An island of Jewish autonomous life”: Paul Rosner’s Diary and the Story of the Young Maccabi Movement in Germany Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Noam Corb
From April to August 1937, Paul Rosner recorded his experiences while attending the Beth Halutz/Maccabi Hatzair boarding school in Berlin, and while participating in the Maccabi youth movement in Germany. Clearly illuminating his personal history in the group, the diary describes daily life, and offers a glimpse into several important events of the Berlin Jewish community, particularly within Zionist
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The Rumble of a Locomotive, Traumatizing Screams, and Mortal Dance: Firsthand Poetic Testimonies Haunted by the Sounds of the Holocaust Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Dobrawa Lisak-Gębala
This article analyzes the relationship between Holocaust trauma and firsthand poetic testimonies through the lens of literary acoustics. Specifically, it explores the work of three Jewish poets, Stanisław Wygodzki, Ilona Karmel, and Stanisław Jerzy Lec, who wrote in Polish of their tragic experiences in the Nazi camps. The article compares these poetical works to involuntary flashbacks composed of
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Deportations of Roma from Hungary and the Mass Killing at Kamianets-Podilskyi in 1941 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Anders E B Blomqvist
At the end of August 1941, the Nazi German Einsatzgruppe, together with German Police Battalion 320 and Ukrainian auxiliaries, killed approximately 23,600 persons (mainly Jews) at Kamianets-Podilskyi. While some researchers assert that Roma were deported from Hungary and Hungarian-occupied Transcarpathia (present-day Ukraine) despite the absence of official reports, other scholars argue that Hungarian
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From Europe to Mexico: The Unexpected Journey of Thirty Jewish Families Escaping Nazism Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Daniela Gleizer, Yael Siman
Despite Mexico’s highly restrictive policy toward Jewish refugees during the 1930s and the Second World War, nearly two thousand Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazism managed to enter the country. While previous historiography has primarily focused on government policies toward Jewish refugees, it has paid little attention to the experiences of those who actually arrived in Mexico. This article fills
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Staging a Boycott: Photographs of the Nazi Attack on Jewish-Owned Businesses in April 1933 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Christoph Kreutzmüller
On April 1, 1933, the Nazi regime staged the brutal state-organized blockade of Jewish-owned businesses as a peaceful boycott. At the time, attempts to influence public opinion only worked to a limited extent. Both domestic and international papers were reluctant to print photos that represented the Nazi perspective too clearly. Yet astonishingly, the Nazi perspective prevails today. The photos made
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Shmal’tsovniki: Bounty Hunters in World War II Galicia, 1941–1944 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Jeffrey Burds
Among the most notorious forms of collaboration with the German occupation of District Galicia were the so-called shmal’tsovniki (szmalcownicy) or marodëry (profiteers), bounty hunters who betrayed Jews to the German police for cash rewards, apartments, food, and a host of other incentives. In this study of post-Soviet Russian, Ukrainian, German, Israeli, and Polish sources, the author has traced the
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Mitigating Persecution: Intermarried Families and the Significance of Social Networks during the Holocaust in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Tatjana Lichtenstein
This article focuses on the wartime experience of an intermarried family in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It examines the intermarried couple Marie and Jiří Klouda, their daughters, Helena and Mariana, and their closest relatives among the Eisner and Klouda families. Using a microhistorical perspective, this study focuses on the experiences and strategies of particular individuals and their
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Competing for the Youth: Jewish Scout Identity, Religion, and Gender during the Holocaust in France Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Barnabas Balint
This article examines Jewish youth identity, gender, and ideology during the Holocaust in France in order to understand how young people responded to persecution. The author’s attempts to understand the youth perspective reveals that these adolescents’ experiences were distinct and varied, and each traversed complex and multifaceted paths through the war. Always in perpetual negotiation with other
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“The last Jew in Vinnitsa”: Reframing an Iconic Holocaust Photograph Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-23 Jürgen Matthäus
As scholarly sources, images require critical engagement to unlock their evidential and explanatory potential beyond what seems visually apparent. Based on newly available documentation, this research note offers corrective evidence and contextual explication for a more historically accurate as well as interdisciplinarity rewarding reading of one iconic Holocaust photograph known as “The Last Jew in
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Nazism, Fascism, and Genocide as Themes in ZANU and ZAPU Propaganda during the War against Rhodesia, 1965–1980 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Hugh Pattenden
This article considers how the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU)—the two main African nationalist groups in the rebel British colony of Rhodesia—sought to undermine the White minority government of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) era in Rhodesia by denouncing it in their propaganda as “Nazi,” “fascist,” and “genocidal.” The author
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Identification of Josef Mengele’s Noma Experiment Victims Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Aisling Shalvey
This research note analyzes Josef Mengele’s experiment on sixty-three victims in Auschwitz suffering from noma, a rare and often fatal disease that results in the erosion of oral facial tissue. The author examines Mengele’s noma experiment, the treatments imposed on the victims, and the retention of specimens from the Nazi era. Through a comprehensive chart, the author includes biographical information
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German Captors, Jewish POWs: Segregation of American and British Jewish POWs in German Captivity in the Second World War Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Yorai Linenberg
The radicalization of Germany’s antisemitic policies that eventually led to the murder of six million Jews, went on in parallel to the radicalization of its POW policies. And yet, while Soviet Jewish POWs were murdered, and French, Polish, and Yugoslavian Jewish POWs were mostly segregated from their non-Jewish comrades, American and British Jewish POWs were rarely segregated in POW camps. This article
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The Wehrmacht’s Complicity in Late-War Genocide: The Palmnicken Massacre and the Military in East Prussia, 1944–1945 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Bastiaan Willems
By examining the death marches from Stutthof’s East Prussian subcamps in January 1945 and the following “Palmnicken Massacre,” this article retraces the role of the Wehrmacht in late-war genocidal violence. Scholars have established the complicity of Wehrmacht soldiers in acts of genocide during their stay on the Eastern Front, and documented the racist mindset that underpinned their behavior. Yet
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Making Holocaust Memory in Finland: The Jewish Community and Conflicting Loyalties, 1944–1950s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Simo Muir
This article analyzes how Finnish Jews defined their position during the Second World War when Finland fought against the Soviet Union as a co-belligerent of Nazi Germany. After the Moscow Armistice in September 1944, the Jewish community’s leadership created an official narrative that transformed the community’s travails into a positive experience. They wanted to signal to the Allied forces and Jewish
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Witnessing the Suffering of Others in Watercolor and Pencil: Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz’s Holocaust Art Exhibited in Sweden, 1945–46 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Victoria Van Orden Martínez
In the Holocaust’s immediate aftermath (1945–1946), a small gallery in Lund, Sweden exhibited the paintings and drawings of Polish artist Jadwiga Simon-Pietkiewicz, which depicted her former fellow inmates in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. This exhibit and subsequent exhibitions elsewhere in Sweden marked rare instances of early postwar Holocaust art displayed in a country that had been relatively
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Periphery of a Genocide: Finland and the Holocaust Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Oula Silvennoinen
By scrutinizing Finland’s complex position as an Axis ally during the Second World War, this article explores the degree to which the country contributed to the destruction of European Jews. Though historians within Finland continue to debate these issues, the author argues that neither exculpation, nor exclusion from the general framework of Holocaust history are tenable historical approaches. While
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The Earliest Danish Testimonies About the Theresienstadt Ghetto: Gathered in Sweden by the World Jewish Congress, April 1945 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini
In April 1945, even before the Theresienstadt ghetto’s liberation, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) began to document the experiences of the Danish Jewish survivors who had been brought to safety in Sweden. Collecting lists of fellow prisoners still in the ghetto and telegrams to relatives, the organization also gathered some of the earliest known written testimonies from Danish survivors. Though the
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The Final Solution in Norway: Local Collaboration in the Holocaust Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Bjarte Bruland
This article analyzes how German agencies and Norwegian collaborators together implemented the Final Solution in Norway. After the German invasion in April 1940, Hitler appointed Josef Terboven Reichskommissar of Norway. Initially, the German occupiers discreetly introduced anti-Jewish measures through local Norwegian agencies against the country’s approximately two thousand Jews. Until Fall 1942,
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“May God have mercy on his black soul”: Consul General Olof Lamm’s Private Diplomatic Efforts to Save Jews from Nazi Persecution Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Pontus Rudberg
This article examines the private diplomatic efforts of Olof Lamm. A Swedish Jewish ex-diplomat and businessman, he used his personal network to protest against Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany, and informally lobbied the United States to increase its immigration quotas. Shedding light on these informal back-channel diplomatic networks, the author provides examples of the attitudes and obstacles
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Swedish Diplomats and Holocaust Knowledge Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Olof Bortz
How did Swedish diplomats report the persecution and killing of European Jewry by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and during the Second World War? What did the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs do with reports on the Holocaust during the war, and to what extent did such reports affect policy? This article shows that Swedish diplomats provided their superiors with reliable, if at times unverifiable, information
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Joseph Wulf and the Path Not Taken: The Turn from Writing Jewish History in Yiddish to Writing Nazi History in German Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Mark L Smith
Before Joseph Wulf gained renown as a pioneering Holocaust historian in postwar Germany, he attempted to establish himself as a Holocaust historian in the Yiddish-speaking community of postwar France. In 1952, however, he left Paris and the world of his fellow survivors to settle in Berlin. Of the Holocaust survivors who turned to writing the Jewish history of the Holocaust in Yiddish immediately after
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Intergenerational Transmission of Holocaust Trauma: Lily Brett’s The Auschwitz Poems, an Insight into the Unique Female Concentrationary Experience Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Laura Miñano Mañero
Holocaust and trauma studies have significantly relied on survivors’ autobiographical writing. Countless survivors have felt morally compelled to bear witness, even though raising their voices constantly triggered traumatic memories. Consistent research throughout the decades, however, has revealed that Holocaust trauma is not only limited to survivors, but an ongoing event affecting their children
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The Struggle against Timelessness: Prisoner Experiences of Time in Nazi Concentration Camps Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Jennifer Putnam
This article explores the ways in which timelessness affected prisoners in Nazi concentration camps and how some prisoners attempted to track time. By depriving prisoners of timekeeping methods, the Schutzstaffel (SS) sought to deprive them of a sense of future and therefore hope. Going against the idea that the SS achieved absolute power, however, is the evidence that some prisoners managed to keep
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Daily Life of Ukrainian Jewish Children in the Zhmerinka Ghetto during the Holocaust in Transnistria Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Lilia Tomchuk
Established at the end of August 1941 in the region then known as Transnistria, the Zhmerinka ghetto was exceptional for several reasons. Though historians have portrayed it as a “model ghetto” or “miniature state” given its organization, maintenance of Jewish community life, and higher survival rate, the individual experiences of the ghetto inmates, particularly those of children, have been largely
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Constructing Racial Visibility: Biracial “Occupation Children” in the Third Reich, 1933–1937 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-26 Julia Roos
In summer 1937, approximately four hundred to six hundred German descendants of Allied soldiers of color born in post-World War I Rhineland were forcedly sterilized. The Nazis vilified the children, referring to them as Rheinlandbastarde (“Rhineland bastards”). We still know relatively little about the fates of individual victims and the role of local perpetrators. This article uses anthropologist
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From a Holocaust Survivor’s Initiative to a Ministry of Education Project: Fredka Mazia and the First Israeli Youth Journeys to Poland 1965–1966 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Sharon Geva
The first Israeli youth journey to Poland took place in 1965. Fredka Mazia, a Holocaust survivor, initiated, organized, and led the group. Following a positive public response, the Ministry of Education and Culture organized their own journey in 1966. In 1967, after Poland severed relations with Israel, the government suspended further journeys until the 1980s. In time, they have become a tradition
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The Mir Yeshiva’s Holocaust Experience: Ultra-Orthodox Perspectives on Japanese Wartime Attitudes towards Jewish Refugees Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-05 Rotem Kowner
The exodus of Jewish refugees from Lithuania to East Asia in late 1940 has become one of the most remarkable stories of rescue during the Holocaust. The largest group among these refugees was the Mir Yeshiva—one of Europe’s most notable Jewish educational institutions at the time, and the only Lithuanian yeshiva to survive the war in its entirety. Recent studies of this story have emphasized the role
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Remain or Resign? Jewish Leaders’ Dilemmas in the Netherlands and Belgium under Nazi Occupation Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Laurien Vastenhout
Why did the chairman of the “Jewish Council” in Belgium decide to resign from his position in late 1942 while his counterparts in the Netherlands, operating in a seemingly similar context, decided to remain in place until the council was dissolved? The choices and motivations of Jewish leaders during Nazi rule have been a persistent subject of discussion in Holocaust historiography for decades. To
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Albanian Customary Law, Religion, and the Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Visar Malaj
Albania was the only German-occupied country in which the number of Jews increased after World War II. Almost all native Jews of Albania survived the Holocaust, and thousands of Jewish refugees from other European countries were assisted and protected during the years 1933–1945. The rescue was facilitated by a unique mixture of factors, but the main common motivation of Muslim, Catholic, and Orthodox
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Portraits from a Conjoined War: The German 100th Light Infantry Division and First Contact with the Jews of Zinkiv, Ukraine—July 1941 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Robert Bernheim
On July 10, 1941, the German 100th Light Infantry Division rolled into the Ukrainian Jewish shtetl of Zinkiv. Over a three-day period, this division committed gratuitous acts of violence and abject terror. While the total number of murdered Jews was relatively small, the author uses the corpus of pre-invasion orders and daily military objectives and reports in official war diaries, as well as eyewitness
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Decolonization and Genocide: Re-Examining Indian Partition, 1946–1947 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Sayantani Jana
This article proposes that the Indian Partition of 1947 could be classified as a form of “decolonizing genocide.” It draws upon the original Lemkinian criteria for genocide in order to re-examine aspects of Partition violence. The author thus discusses the need to expand the existing terminology and frameworks that scholars have previously used to analyze the Partition; examines the different state
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Early Deportations of Jews in Occupied Poland (October 1939–June 1940): The German and the Soviet Cases Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Alexandra Pulvermacher
After the division of Poland in September 1939 following the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact, deportations of Polish citizens were part of the Nazis’ plan to “Germanize” western and northern Poland, though the Jewish dimension of these events has hardly been investigated. Beyond the organized deportations by the German Security Police, there were local initiatives to expel Jews to the Soviet Zone
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Allied Aerial Imagery of the Jasenovac Concentration Camp and Killing Center Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Goran Hutinec
Allied aerial imagery of the Jasenovac concentration camp and killing site taken between 1944 and 1945 contributes to our understanding of the camp’s topography and function. These images, previously unknown to the scholarly community, provide insight into the daily life of Jasenovac’s inmates, and show traces of mass murder and genocide. They provide evidence of the Allied bombing of the camp in 1945
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A Nazi Rescuer? Fritz Schellhorn and the Contested Memory of the Holocaust in Romania Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Gaëlle Fisher
This study addresses the role of Fritz Schellhorn, the German consul in Cernăuţi (Czernowitz), Romania before and during World War II. Recently Schellhorn has been presented as a rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust. Based largely on Schellhorn’s papers in the German Foreign Office Archives, some have argued that it was not, as previously believed, the wartime mayor and Righteous Among the Nations
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Whose Victims and Whose Survivors? Polish Jewish Refugees between Holocaust and Gulag Memory Cultures Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Lidia Zessin-Jurek
Holocaust and Gulag studies are witnessing the belated emergence of the Soviet experience of Jewish escapees from Nazi-occupied Poland as a lieu de mémoire in its own right. Although not commemorated in official ritual, museum spaces, or memorial sites, the sheer mass of published testimonies by survivors of this experience far outweighs the previous lack of attention to the refugees’ story. It was
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Messianism Refigured: Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s Musical Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-09 J Mackenzie Pierce
This essay explores the commemorative stance of Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern’s opera The Anointed (1951) toward the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and situates the work within an early and volatile period of cultural responses to the Holocaust in Poland and the United States. Through a close examination of the opera’s literary sources and musical setting, as well as the archival materials related to its creation
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Everyday Justice: Legal Aid for Jewish Displaced Persons, Germany, 1945–1950 Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Rivka Brot
Welfare workers volunteering with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), a Jewish welfare organization, delivered crucial legal assistance to Holocaust survivors gathered in displaced persons (DP) camps in the American Zone of occupied Germany; however, today their story is largely forgotten. Their legal aid program embodied a unique relationship between social work and law. JDC relief
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“Many of those who were only wounded suffocated, buried alive”: Analyzing the Experiences of Jews Who Survived Mass Executions Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Barbara Engelking
The Holocaust is associated primarily with death camps, but mass executions alongside crematoria were an equal way to exterminate Jews during World War II. This article presents the perspective of Jews who survived the shootings. On the basis of ninety-one personal accounts of people who survived under the corpses, I describe their experience: the circumstances of the massacre, falling into the grave
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Surviving Art from Terezín: The Satirical Drawings of Pavel Fantl Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Ewa Stańczyk
This article examines the art of Pavel Fantl (1903–1945), a Czech Jewish doctor whom the Nazis murdered shortly before the end of the Second World War. Fantl left behind approximately eighty drawings. Despite being created under difficult conditions in the Terezín Ghetto, his art stands out for its use of humor and satire. This article argues that Fantl’s work not only testified to the suffering and
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Das Fußvolk der “Endlösung:” Nichtdeutsche Täter und die europäische Dimension des Völkermords Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Plavnieks R.
Das Fußvolk der “Endlösung:” Nichtdeutsche Täter und die europäische Dimension des Völkermords, ThomasSandkühler (Darmstadt, Germany: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2020), 431 pp., hardcover €40.00, electronic version available.
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Hostile Takeovers of Large Jewish Companies, 1933–1935: Reassessing Aryanization of Jewish-Owned Firms Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Hayes P.
Hostile Takeovers of Large Jewish Companies, 1933–1935: Reassessing Aryanization of Jewish-Owned Firms, William MKatin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021) x + 297 pp., hardcover $120.00, electronic version available.
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The Sephardim in the Holocaust: A Forgotten People Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Bowman S.
The Sephardim in the Holocaust: A Forgotten People, Isaac JackLevy with Rosemary LevyZumwalt (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2020), $79.95, paper $29.95, electronic version available.
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Misled by Evgenii Khaldei: “Budapest Ghetto” Photos Staged outside the Ghetto and Their False Narratives Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Peter Pastor
ABSTRACT World War II Soviet photojournalist Evgenii Khaldei gained fame in the West when his photographs of war victims were exhibited there in the 1990s. Among his Holocaust-related images are two iconic photos that he claimed were taken upon the January 18, 1945 liberation of the Budapest ghetto. One represents the wanton murder of Jews, the other their survival. Exhibited or published, these photos
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Borderland Generation: Soviet and Polish Jews under Hitler Jeffrey Koerber Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Anna Cichopek-Gajraj
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Richard L. Rubenstein (1924–2021) Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Michael Berenbaum,John K Roth
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Pearl M. Oliner (1931–2021) and Samuel P. Oliner (1930–2021) Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Lawrence Baron
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Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II Francine Hirsch Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Devin O Pendas
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The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within Richard Breitman Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Larry Eugene Jones
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Legal Sabotage: Ernst Fraenkel in Hitler’s Germany Douglas G. Morris Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Noah B Strote
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Soviet Publications of Holocaust Diaries in the 1960s: Anne Frank and Masha Rolnikaite Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Gennady Estraikh
ABSTRACT A strict ban on organized Jewish activities apart from those of a limited number of religious bodies, coupled with the state monopoly on all publishing, simplified the Soviet Union’s control over Holocaust-related publication. The appearance of any such work was an idiosyncratic event, associated with concurrent political and cultural contexts and official agendas. The relatively liberal climate
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The Compromise of Return: Viennese Jews after the Holocaust Elizabeth Anthony Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Matthew P Berg
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Einsatzgruppe and Collaborator Horror: Thinking the Holocaust’s “Explicit Presence” in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Robert Manning
Abstract Levinas scholars agree that his work was affected by the Holocaust and reflects a philosophical response to it. Yet Levinas only rarely mentions the Holocaust in his major philosophical writings, so how is what Levinas called “Holocaust horror” registed in his work? Here the author argues that scholarship says little about this because it has paid only scant attention to the tragedies of Levinas’s
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Probing the Limits of Categorization: The Bystander in Holocaust History Christina Morina and Krijn Thijs Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Victoria J Barnett
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Beyond the Things Themselves: Economic Aspects of the Italian Race Laws (1938–2018) Ilaria Pavan Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Ariella Lang
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Odyssey of a Child Survivor: From Latvia through the Camps to the United States George David Schwab, introduction by Wendy Lower Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Steven Leonard Jacobs
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The Polish Government-in-Exile: The United Nations War Crimes Commission and the Holocaust Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Michael Fleming
The author discusses the engagement of the Polish Government-in-Exile with the issue of German war crimes and its involvement with the United Nations War Crimes Commission during the Second World War. Information sent by the Polish Underground State allowed the Polish War Crimes Office to compile its charge file submissions for the UNWCC in a strategic and organized manner. According to the author
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Strings of Memory: Memory Transfer and Moral Accountability through Strings in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Anna Carroll
This essay explores the unavoidable transfer of ethical accountability to Holocaust perpetrator descendants, as seen in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated. Building upon Maurice Halbwachs’s theory of collective memory and Marianne Hirsch’s theory of postmemory, this essay hypothesizes that Foer uses physical, metaphorical, and structural strings to transfer memories across generations
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Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900–1948Amir Teicher Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Hart M.
Social Mendelism: Genetics and the Politics of Race in Germany, 1900–1948, TeicherAmir (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 280 pp., hardcover $34.99, electronic version available.
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Law, History, and Justice: Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth CenturyAnnette Weinke Holocaust and Genocide Studies Pub Date : 2021-12-03 Ledford K.
Law, History, and Justice: Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century, WeinkeAnnette, translated by LevisNicholas Evangelos (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019), 340 pp., cloth $135.00, electronic version available.