"History & Memory, Volume 9", numbers 1 and 2 - more than a decade has passed since the Historians' Debate erupted in Germany. The themes that were at the heart of that impassioned controversy continue to pulsate in historical thinking about the National Socialist era. As a result of the Historikerstreit, increased credence is being lent to the issues of historicization, national identity, historical consciousness, the 'guilt question,' and collective memory, which heretofore had been considered...
For 40 years, Swiss banks denied the existence of thousands of accounts opened by Jewish families during World War II as a haven for their savings, until forced into admission in July 1997. Told in the words of the families and lawyer Henry Burnsteyner - who brought the first successful case against the banks - this text reveals how events unfolded. The process opened to question Switzerland's neutrality during the war and focused attention on the everyday crimes of omission and comission which...
Contributed chapters by eminent Holocaust scholars provide critical essays that encourage teachers to reflect on why and how they teach Holocaust history. The chapters are devoted to addressing some of the many problematic practices currently being implemented in Holocaust education as well as to raise critical issues and effective pedagogical strategies. Issues addressed are: methods for assessing students' knowledge base prior to teaching Holocaust history; teaching the history in a comprehens...
Die Geschichte des Judenhasses war lang, brutal und gipfelte in der Vernichtung von uber sechs Millionen Juden durch die Nationalsozialisten. Nach der Schoah war der Antisemitismus in Europa tabu, verschwand aber nicht aus den Denkmustern. Vielmehr zeigte er sich in seiner stereotypen Gestalt recht bald wieder. Das Buch behandelt in chronologischer Form die verschiedenen Auspragungen und Entwicklungen des Judenhasses in Europa. Sie reichen von Vertreibung, Gettoisierung, Pogromen und der Schoah...
Ghetto and Death Camp Wa (Illustrated Sourcebook on the Holocaust, #2)
by Soza Szajkowski
Representing Auschwitz (The Holocaust and Its Contexts)
The Holocaust is often described as beyond representation. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, this ground-breaking collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, which were buried in the grounds of the crematoria at Birkenau in 1944, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The accounts, which are often marginalized in studies of Holocaust testimony, are frequently highly l...
Westerweel Group: Non-Conformist Resistance Against Nazi Germany (New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History)
by Hans Schippers
The book about the Westerweel Group tells the fascinating story about the cooperation of some ten non-conformist Dutch socialists and a group of Palestine Pioneers who mostly had arrived in the Netherlands from Germany and Austria the late thirties. With the help of Joop Westerweel, the headmaster of a Rotterdam Montessori School, they found hiding places in the Netherlands. Later on, an escape route to France via Belgium was worked out. Posing as Atlantic Wall workers, the pioneers found their...
Stories of hope from the Holocaust. Memory is about choice. We can choose to remember the past in ways that provoke pain and stir our anger, or we can remember in ways that help us create the kind of world in which we most want to live.Nowhere is this choice more important than in connection to the Holocaust. And never has it been more important than now, because we are the first generation that will live without the presence of those who can tell us in their own words what they saw with their...
Holocaust Averted - Bulgarian Jews in World War II
by Miroslav Marinov Ph D
One of the continuing puzzles of twentieth-century history is how Germany moved from a kind of anti-Semitism that was despicable, but did not seem exceedingly dangerous, to the Final Solution. This is a question that has been debated in recent years by historians who have come up with very different answers. In Nazi Anti-Semitism, Philippe Burrin, one of the leading historians of Nazi Germany, offers a new understanding of the evolution of Nazi thought and policy.
Under the brutal conditions of the Dachau-Kaufering concentration camp, a handful of young Jews resolved to resist their Nazi oppressors. Their weapons were their words. Beginning with the Soviet occuption of Kovno, the members of Irgun Brith Zion circulated an underground journal, ""Nitzotz"" (""Spark""), in which they debated Zionist politics and laid plans for postwar settlment in Palestine. When the Kovno ghetto was destroyed, several contributors to ""Nitzotz"" were deported to the camps of...
Allowing the Destruction of Life Unworthy of Life
by Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche
In the 1970s, news broke that former Nazis had escaped prosecution and were living the good life in the United States. Outrage swept the nation, and the public outcry put extreme pressure on the U.S. government to investigate these claims and to deport offenders. The subsequent creation of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) marked the official beginning of Nazi-hunting in the United States, but it was far from its end. Thirty some years later, in November 2010, the New York Times obtain...
The Paranoid Apocalypse (Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies)
by Steven T. Katz
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to achieve global domination. While the document has been proven to be fake, much of it plagiarized from satirical anti-Semitic texts, it had a major impact throughout Europe during the first half of the 20th century, particularly in Germany. After World War II, the text was further denounce...