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A COMPANION TO THE HOLOCAUST

 

Edited by

Simone Gigliotti
Hilary Earl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Notes on Editors and Contributors

Co‐editors

Simone Gigliotti teaches Holocaust studies in the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom. She is the author or co‐editor of five books, including The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity and Witnessing in the Holocaust (2009), and has published articles and chapters on the representation of spatial concepts and journeys in a range of Jewish refugee and Holocaust survivor texts. In‐progress works include a monograph on the Holocaust and the cinema of the displaced.

Hilary Earl is professor of European history and genocide studies at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada. Her research and teaching interests include war crimes trials, perpetrator testimony and behavior, the reintegration of Nazi perpetrators into German society, and the cultural impact of the Holocaust and genocide in the twenty‐first century. She has published in a variety of journals and essay collections and is the author of The Nuremberg SS‐Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945–1958: Atrocity, Law, and History, published by Cambridge University Press, which won the Hans Rosenberg book prize for best book in Central European history. In 2014 she co‐edited with Karl Schleunes Lessons and Legacies XI: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World published by Northwestern University Press. In‐progress work includes a documentary film on Nazi perpetrators and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded project that examines the 1941 massacre in Liepaja, Latvia that uses film, photographs, and testimony.

Contributors

Avril Alba is a senior lecturer in Holocaust studies and Jewish civilization in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. She publishes in the areas of Holocaust memory and representation and has also curated several major exhibitions on these topics. Her most recent publication is a co‐edited collection with Shirli Gilbert, Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World (2019).

Natalia Aleksiun is professor of Modern Jewish History at Touro College, Graduate School of Jewish Studies in New York. She published Where to? Zionist Movement in Poland (1944–1950) (2002) and co‐edited volumes 20 and 29 of Polin. Studies in Polish Jewry. Her book Communal History. Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust is being published by Littman in 2020. She is completing a monograph on the Jews in hiding in Eastern Galicia during the Holocaust.

Alejandro Baer is associate professor of sociology, and director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the coauthor (with Natan Sznaider) of Memory and Forgetting in the Post‐Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again (2017) and articles and chapters on Holocaust memory in Spain, visual sociology and memory, and Holocaust testimony.

Waitman Wade Beorn is a senior lecturer in history at Northumbria University in Newcastle. He is a scholar of the Holocaust and genocide as well as a digital humanist. His books include Marching into Darkness: The Wehrmacht and the Holocaust in Belarus and The Holocaust in Eastern Europe: At the Epicenter of the Final Solution. His next project explores the Janowska concentration camp outside of L'viv, Ukraine.

Daniel Blatman is the Max and Rita Haber Professor in Contemporary Jewry and Holocaust Studies at the department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the head of the Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry and the chief historian of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in Warsaw. He has published articles and books on the Holocaust of Polish Jewry, the Jewish labour movement in Eastern Europe, Polish Jewish‐relations, Nazi extermination policy, the death marches, and Holocaust historiography.

Aomar Boum is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is interested in the place of religious minorities such as Jews, Baha’is, Shias, and Christians in post‐independence Middle Eastern and North African nation states. He is the author of Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco (2013) and coauthor of The Holocaust and North Africa (2019).

Cathie Carmichael is professor of European history at the University of East Anglia, Norwich and is the author of Ethnic Cleansing in the Balkans (2002) and Genocide before the Holocaust (2009) and co‐edited the Routledge History of Genocide (2015). Her current research focuses on borders, boundaries, national identity, and violence in South East Europe.

Nicholas Chare is associate professor in the Department of History of Art and Film Studies at the University of Montreal, Canada. In 2018 he was the Diane and Howard Wohl Fellow in the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in Washington, DC. He is the author of Auschwitz and Afterimages (2011) and The Auschwitz‐Sonderkommando (2019) and coauthor (with Dominic Williams) of Matters of Testimony (2016).

Tim Cole is professor of social history and director of the Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. His publications include Traces of the Holocaust (2011), Holocaust Geographies (co‐edited, 2014), and Holocaust Landscapes (2016).

Pedro Correa Martín‐Arroyo is currently a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Holocaust Research Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom. He is the author of several publications on World War II refugees and humanitarianism in Southwestern Europe.

Martin C. Dean received a PhD in European history from Queens’ College, Cambridge. He has worked for the Australian Special Investigations Unit and London’s Metropolitan Police War Crimes Unit. He was an applied research scholar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and was a volume editor for The Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos. His publications include Collaboration in the Holocaust and Robbing the Jews, which won a National Jewish Book Award. Currently he works as a historical consultant for the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.

Jonathan Druker is professor of Italian at Illinois State University. In 2014, he was a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, where he began research on his current book project, an analysis of Holocaust literature focusing on trauma, history, memory, and time. With Scott Lerner, he edited The New Italy and the Jews: From Massimo D’Azeglio to Primo Levi (2018).

David Engel is Greenberg Professor of Holocaust studies, professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies, and professor of history at New York University. A member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, he is the author of seven books and upwards of one hundred articles on aspects of the Holocaust and modern Jewish history.

Monika J. Flaschka is a visiting lecturer at Georgia State University, Atlanta. Her research focuses primarily on sex crimes committed by German soldiers during World War II, and she has published analyses of rape in German‐run concentration camps and rape as a weapon of war and genocide.

Elisabeth Gallas is senior research associate at the Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture – Simon Dubnow in Leipzig, Germany. From 2012 to 2015 she held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute of Holocaust‐Studies after receiving her PhD in modern history from the Universität Leipzig in 2011. Her research focuses on Holocaust studies, Aftermath studies, and Jewish legal history.

Bianca Gaudenzi is research fellow at the German Historical Institute, Rome, and at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, as well as research associate at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Her publications include a study of consumer culture in Fascist Italy, Comprare per credere (second printing, 2016) and a special section of the Journal of Contemporary History titled The Restitution of Looted Art in the Twentieth Century: Transnational and Global Perspectives (2017).

Amanda F. Grzyb is associate professor of information and media studies at Western University, Canada. Her research focuses on genocide and state violence, including the Holocaust, Rwanda, Sudan, and El Salvador. She is currently the coordinator of “Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador,” an international collaborative research network of survivors, scholars, architects, and artists focused on the documentation and commemoration of massacres during the Salvadoran Civil War.

Valerie Hébert is associate professor of history and interdisciplinary studies at Lakehead University Orillia in Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Hitler’s Generals on Trial: The Last War Crimes Tribunal at Nuremberg (2010), as well as essays and articles on Rwanda’s Gacaca Tribunals, the resistance figure Kurt Gerstein, teaching the Holocaust with postwar trials, and Holocaust photography.

Susanne Heim is the principal editor of the sixteen‐volume document edition, The Persecution and Extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany 1933–1945 (VEJ) at the Leibniz Institut für Zeitgeschichte in Berlin, Germany. Her research topics include the history Jewish emigration from Nazi Germany and migration and population policy in the twentieth century. Volume 6 of the VEJ series on The German Reich and the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia October 1941–March 1943 was published in 2019.

Laura Jockusch is Albert Abramson Associate Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University. She wrote Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early Postwar Europe (2012) and co‐edited (with Gabriel Finder) Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust (2015). Her current research projects explore Jewish conceptions of post‐Holocaust justice and the trials of Stella Goldschlag (aka Kübler‐Isaaksohn) in postwar Germany.

Meghan Lundrigan received her PhD in 2019 from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She researches the intersection of Holocaust memory, visual culture, and social media. She is currently co‐writing a book, Holocaust Memory in the Digital Mediascape, with Jennifer Evans and Erica Fagen, and is currently a historical research associate for Know History Inc., in Ottawa, Canada. See knowhistory.ca.

David B. MacDonald is a professor and research leadership chair at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. He works on comparative Indigenous politics, international relations, and genocide studies. His most recent books are The Sleeping Giant Awakens: Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation (2019) and Populism and World Politics: Exploring Inter‐ and Transnational Dimensions, co‐edited with F.A. Stengel and D. Nabers (2019).

Daniel H. Magilow is professor of German in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research centers on photography and film and their intersections with Holocaust Studies, Weimar Germany, and postwar memory. He is the author, coauthor, editor, or translator of five books, most recently Holocaust Representations in History: An Introduction (coauthored with Lisa Silverman, second edition, 2019).

David A. Messenger is professor of history and chair of the Department of History at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He studies the role of Spain during and after World War II and is interested in the history of both the era and the memory of the war in contemporary society. His publications include Hunting Nazis in Franco’s Spain (2014), and War and Public Memory: Case Studies in Twentieth‐Century Europe (2020).

Joanna Beata Michlic is a social and cultural historian specializing in social history of East European Jews and the memory of the Holocaust. She is founder of HBI (Hadassah‐Brandeis Institute) Project on Families, Children and the Holocaust at Brandeis University. Her latest book Jewish Family 1939–Present: History, Representation, and Memory, Brandeis University Press/NEUP, named to the Ethical Inquiry list of the best books published in 2017 at Brandeis University.

Dan Michman is head of the International Institute of Holocaust Research and Incumbent of the John Najmann Chair in Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem; and emeritus professor of modern Jewish history and former chair of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar‐Ilan University. His publications cover a broad array of topics regarding the Holocaust, its impact and memory, with a special focus on historiography, conceptualizations, and methodologies.

Guy Miron is the vice president for academic affairs at the Open University of Israel and the director of the research center for the study of the Holocaust in Germany at Yad Vashem. His research focuses on modern German and Central European Jewish history. His book The Waning of the Emancipation was published in 2011. He also served as the editor of Yad Vashem Encyclopedia of the Ghetto During the Holocaust

Devin O. Pendas is professor of history at Boston College. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2000. In addition to the history of the Holocaust, his research interests include the history of global war crimes trials and the history of mass violence. His publications include The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963–1965: Genocide, History, and the Limits of the Law and Law, Democracy, and Transitional Justice in Germany, 1945–‐1950. He has also co‐edited a number of volumes, including Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany and Political Trials in History and Theory.

Kim Christian Priemel is professor of contemporary European history at the University of Oslo. Among his publications are The Betrayal. The Nuremberg Trials and German Divergence (2016) and, jointly edited with Alexa Stiller, Reassessing the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Transitional Justice, Trial Narratives, and Historiography (2012).

Avraham (Alan) Rosen is the author or editor of fourteen books. He is most recently the author of The Holocaust’s Jewish Calendars: Keeping Time Sacred, Making Time Holy (2019). His edition of Elie Wiesel’s unpublished lectures, Filled with Fire and Light, is due to appear in 2020. He lectures regularly on Holocaust Literature and Testimony at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies and other Holocaust study centers.

Noah Shenker is the 6a Foundation and N. Milgrom Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Reframing Holocaust Testimony (2015), and several articles and chapters on topics addressing representations of the Holocaust and other genocides through film, testimony, and new media.

Mark Spoerer is chair of economic and social history at the Institut für Geschichte Universität Regensburg. He researches economic and business history. His current project is on the economic growth and living standards in premodern Germany.

William J. Spurlin, professor of English and vice‐dean/education in the College of Business, Arts & Social Sciences at Brunel University London, publishes widely in queer studies, comparative literature, postcolonial studies, and translation studies. His recent books include Imperialism within the Margins: Queer Representation and the Politics of Culture in Southern Africa (2006); Lost Intimacies: Rethinking Homosexuality under National Socialism (2009); and Contested Borders: Queer Politics and Cultural Translation in Contemporary Francophone Writing from the Maghreb (forthcoming).

Dan Stone is professor of modern history and director of the Holocaust Research Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London. His books include Histories of the Holocaust (2010) and The Liberation of the Camps (2015). He is currently completing a book on the International Tracing Service, titled Fate Unknown (forthcoming in 2021, and writing a book on the Holocaust for Penguin’s revived Pelican series.

Esther Webman is a senior research fellow at the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her research focuses on Arab discourse analysis, particularly Arab antisemitism and Arab perceptions of the Holocaust. Her book, From Empathy to Denial: Arab Responses to the Holocaust, coauthored with Professor Meir Litvak, won the Washington Institute for Near East Policy's Gold book prize for 2010, and was published in Hebrew in 2015.

Gerhard L. Weinberg is emeritus professor of history of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The most recently published of his eleven books is World War II: A Very Short Introduction published by Oxford University Press. He continues to lecture internationally on Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II.

Edward B. Westermann received his PhD from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is a professor of history at Texas A&M‐San Antonio. His books include Hitler’s Police Battalions: Enforcing Racial War in the East (2005) and Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest (2011). His forthcoming work, Drunk on Genocide: Alcohol, Masculinity, and the Intoxication of Mass Murder, will be published by Cornell University Press.

Carol Zemel is professor emerita of art history and visual culture at York University, Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Looking Jewish: Visual Culture and Modern Diaspora (2012). Her recent work focuses on Jewish and diasporic issues and the ethics of visuality in modern and contemporary art. Her current project is Art in Extremis, a study of images made by prisoners in ghettos and camps during the Holocaust.