Justice, politics and memory in Europe after the Second World War / edited by Suzanne Bardgett ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bardgett, Suzanne.

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Series:

Landscapes after battle ; v. 2.

Landscapes after battle ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Historiography.

World War, 1939-1945--Historiography--Congresses.

World War, 1939-1945.

Reparations for historical injustices.

War victims.

Holocaust survivors.

Europe--Historiography--Congresses.

Europe.

Holocaust survivors--Congresses.

War victims--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations--Congresses.

World War, 1939-1945--Reparations--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xx, 360 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2011.

Summary:

This collection of sixteen essays on survivors and survival in post World War II Europe showcases new scholarship on the effects of traumatic experiences on the creation of memory and the reconstruction of a just society. Divided into sections covering post-war justice, national narratives and private memories, and the creation of memorial, both emotional and physical, individual papers discuss such topics as the Russian victims of Nazi human experiments, collective memory and the construction of national identities, and concentration camp memorials and their local neighbors. The volume includes numerous black and white photographs as well as a selection of color plates. Contributors include American and European historians from several universities. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Introduction : survivors and survival in Europe after the Second World War / Jessica Reinisch

Victim nationality in US and British military trials : Hadamar, Dachau, Belsen / Michael Bryant and Wolfgang Form

Nameless victims : Nazi human experiments on Russians in the Second World War : statistics, stories and stereotypes / Nichola Hunt

Occupiers, Nazi robbery and a restitution law for the whole of Germany : missed early opportunities or historical inevitabilities? / Jeff Porter

'The treatment is no different to Hitler's direction' : compensation measures for Austrian 'Gypsies' after 1945 exemplified by Opferfürsorge applications in the Province of Styria / Andrea Strutz

Once again trapped by German bureaucracy : implementing the Ghetto Pension Act / Stephan Lehnstaedt

A new look at some old memoirs : early narratives of Nazi persecution and genocide / David Cesarani

Collective memory and national identity construction : Polish survivors' records in Sweden / Izabela A. Dahl

On the complexity of 'collective memory' : the case of B̨edzin / Mary Fulbrook

Memory of the Shoah in the Italian Jewish press (1945-65) / Elena Mazzini

'Children of the resistance' and their relationship to politics after 1945 / Dieter Nelles, Armin Nolzen and Heinz Sünker

From atrocity to action : how Soviet cinema initiated the Holocaust film : imagining the unimaginable in a Soviet context / Jeremy Hicks

Legacy through the language and photography of an Auschwitz survivor / Hanna K. Ulatowska and Danuta Kądzielawa

A child survives in Drohobycz : the story behind Alicia Melamed Adams's paintings / Suzanne Bardgett

Remembrance of Soviet prisoners of war in northern and central Europe / Marianne Neerland Soleim

Contested memory : East German representations of Weimarer Klassik and Gedenkstätte Buchenwald / Elizabeth Harrington Lambert

National memorials, local memories : bystanders to concentration camps after the war / Helen Whatmore.

Notes:

Based on papers from the third international conference in the series Beyond camps and forced labour held at the Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

0853039429

9780853039426

OCLC:

707230488

Publisher Number:

99944778475