The book assembles case studies on the human dimension of the Holocaust as illuminated in the academic work of preeminent Holocaust scholar Deborah Dwork, the founding director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, home of the first doctoral program focusing solely on the Holocaust and other genocides. Written by fourteen of her former doctoral students, its chapters explore how agency, a key category in recent Holocaust studies and the work of Dwork, works in a variety of different ‘small’ settings – such as a specific locale or region, an organization, or a group of individuals.
Author(s): Thomas Kühne, Mary Jane Rein
Series: Palgrave Studies In The History Of Genocide
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 242
Tags: History Of Modern Europe
Contents......Page 6
Chapter 1: Introduction......Page 9
Part I: Youth and Identity......Page 19
Chapter 2: Autobiographies of Jewish Youth in Prewar Poland as Holocaust Sources......Page 20
Background......Page 22
Childhood......Page 24
School......Page 25
Youth Groups......Page 26
Vocational Training......Page 29
Isolation and Conflict......Page 30
Wartime Fate......Page 31
Conclusion......Page 33
Chapter 3: Saving Jewish Girls: A Case Study in Lidingö, Sweden......Page 37
A Case Study: Lidingö, Sweden......Page 39
A Bais Yaakov School in Lidingö......Page 41
Methodological Challenges and Questions......Page 46
Part II: Rescue and Relief......Page 54
Chapter 4: JDC’s Relief Efforts and the Holocaust in Rzeszów County......Page 55
Feeding the Hungry......Page 58
Assessing the Situation......Page 60
Assisting Refugees and the Local Poor......Page 62
Helping Jewish Farmers......Page 63
Ensuring Religious Needs and Instilling Hope......Page 64
Conclusion......Page 65
References......Page 70
Introduction......Page 72
One Jewish Family from Velké Meziříčí: The Muellers......Page 74
The Nazi Occupation of the Czech Lands......Page 75
Czech-Jewish Responses to Nazi Occupation......Page 76
Terezín: The Final Solution Unfolds on Czech Soil......Page 77
From Terezín to the East: Treblinka......Page 78
From Terezín to the East: Auschwitz......Page 79
One Family: Multiple Fates......Page 80
Uncovering the History......Page 81
Conclusion: Recognizing Honorable Actions, Preserving History and Memory......Page 84
Chapter 6: Eleanor Roosevelt and Refugees from the Holocaust: Beyond the Politics......Page 90
Conditions in Europe, 1933–1936......Page 91
1936–1938: Europe and the United States......Page 92
Wagner-Rogers Bill......Page 93
United States Committee for the Care of European Children......Page 96
Emergency Rescue Committee......Page 98
Saving Individuals......Page 99
SS Quanza......Page 100
Conclusion......Page 101
Part III: Gender Dynamics......Page 106
Chapter 7: Sexuality, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Barter in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Women’s Camp......Page 107
Women in Auschwitz-Birkenau......Page 108
Sexual Violence and Female Experience......Page 110
Sexual Agency and Resistance......Page 112
Sexual Slavery and Sexual Assault......Page 115
Women Perpetrators......Page 117
Conclusion......Page 118
Chapter 8: “We Are All Witnesses”: Eva Reichmann and the Wiener Library’s Eyewitness Accounts Collection......Page 124
The Founding of the Wiener Library......Page 126
Eva Reichmann and the Salvage of Memory......Page 127
Concentric and Centrifugal: Transnational Methodology......Page 131
Reichmann and Wiener: “As It Had Been Before”......Page 136
References......Page 139
Part IV: Ambiguities of Perpetration......Page 142
Chapter 9: Genocidal and Anti-genocidal Ethics in Fascist Italy during the Holocaust......Page 143
Italian Police and the Holocaust......Page 144
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana......Page 146
The History and Memory of Castelnuovo......Page 149
Conclusion......Page 151
Chapter 10: The Restitution of Jewish Jobs in the Aftermath of the Antonescu Regime......Page 159
The Struggle for the Restitution of Jobs During the Antonescu Regime......Page 160
The Post-Antonescu Restitution of Jobs......Page 161
The Restitution Legislation......Page 162
Jewish Leaders’ and Organizational Restitution Efforts......Page 164
Ordinary Jews’ Efforts at Restitution......Page 165
Gentiles’ Opposition to Restitution......Page 167
Conclusion......Page 172
References......Page 175
Part V: Cultures of Memory......Page 178
Introduction......Page 179
The Agency of the State......Page 181
Creating “Greater Hungary” During World War II......Page 182
Bystanders and the State......Page 186
Making Hungary Great Again through Global Holocaust Memory......Page 190
Chapter 12: Rebuilding and Renewing Viennese Jewish Identity After the Holocaust......Page 196
Return in the Context of the “Victim Myth”......Page 200
The Ambiguity of Viennese Jewish Identity......Page 201
The Ambiguity of Identity in Professional Life......Page 203
The Ambiguity of Identity in Politics......Page 204
Risks of Silence......Page 206
References......Page 210
Chapter 13: Making Present the Past: Canada’s St. Louis Apology and Canadian Jewry’s Pursuit of Refugee Justice......Page 212
The Three “Rs”: Remembrance, Redress, and Restitution......Page 214
Holocaust Remembrance and Redress......Page 216
Post-World War II Refugee Crises: Agency and Action......Page 219
Apologia: Where Do We Go from Here?......Page 224
References......Page 230
Archives......Page 232
Index......Page 233
