New microhistorical approaches to an integrated history of the Holocaust / edited by Frédéric Bonnesoeur, Hannah Wilson, Christin Zühlke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonnesoeur, Frédéric, editor.

Wilson, Hannah (Holocaust historian), editor.

Zühlke, Christin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Microhistory.

Historiography.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 380 pages) : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2023]

Summary:

"In 1997, Saul Friedländer emphasized the need for an integrated history of the Holocaust. His suggestion to connect ‘the policies of the perpetrators, the attitudes of surrounding society, and the world of the victims’ provides the inspiration for this volume. Following in these footsteps, this innovative study approaches Holocaust history through a combination of macro analysis with micro studies. Featuring a range of contemporary research from emerging scholars in the field, this peer-reviewed volume provides detailed engagement with a variety of historical sources, such as documents, artifacts, photos, or text passages. The contributors investigate particular aspects of sound, materiality, space and social perceptions to provide a deeper understanding of the Holocaust, which have often been overlooked or generalised in previous historical research. Yet, as we approach an era of no first hand witnesses, this multidisciplinary, micro-historical approach remains a fundamental aspect of Holocaust research, and can provide a theoretical framework for future studies."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction / Frédéric Bonnesoeur, Hannah Wilson, Christin Zühlke

2. Materiality

2.1. Exploring the Representation of the Jewish Ghetto Policeman's Uniform in the Confessional Diary of Calel Perechodnik / David Dickson

2.2. Display vs Decay: Historical and Material Narratives of a Parokhet from Czestochowa / Anna Hirsh, Holly Jones-Amin

2.3. Fragmented Families and Material Memory: The Striped Trousers of Juda van der Velde and an Excavated Nametag from Sobibór Death Camp / Hannah Wilson

3. Space

3.1. A Window with a View: Reading Clandestine Death March Photography as Counter-Cartographical Practice / Emily-Rose Baker

3.2. "Their turn came the next day": In-between Spaces of the Holocaust and its Photographical Representation / Janine Fubel, Alexandra Klei

3.3. Emotions and Natural Environment in Bergen-Belsen: The Role of the Forest in the Diary of Margit Holländer / Heléna Huhák

4. Sound

4.1. Recovered Music, Recovered Memory: Viktor Ullmann's Sonata for Violin / Alexandra Birch

4.2. Sonic Experiences in the Night: The Case of the Falling Bunk at Auschwitz-Birkenau / Sara Ann Sewell

5. Gender

5.1. "And I Gave Them Skirts like the Ones We Used to Wear": Roma Women's Recollections of Helping Jews during the Holocaust in Transnistria / Lilia Tomchuk

5.2. The Beauty of Ugliness: Naomi Judkowski's Cugangi (New Prisoners), Sexual Violence and Aesthetic Capital in the Holocaust / Idit Gil, Dana Kaplan

5.3. Sexualized Violence in Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Perspectives of the Sonderkommando Prisoners / Christin Zühlke

5.4. Henrietta Stein Klotz and Henry Morgenthau Jr.: A Secretary's Influence on the Treasury Department's Response to the Holocaust / Abby Gondek

5.5. The Scientific Exploitation of Marie Anna Schirmann: A Study of Intersectional Discrimination in Academia during the Holocaust / Jason Lemberg

6. Social History

6.1. Reconsidering the Personal Archives of a Victim: The Case of Vollrath von Maltzan, a "Mischling" in German Diplomacy / Jean-Marc Dreyfus

6.2. Foreigner at Home: The Expulsion of the Kaufer Family from Hungary / Borbála Klacsmann

6.3. Gathering Information as Resistance: Ordinary Jews and First News about the Chełmno Death Camp / Maria Ferenc

6.4. "Essenausgabe": A Poem of Life and Death / Lizzy Robinson-Self

6.5. Craving News from Dear Ones: The Impact of Organisation Todt Forced Labour on the Survival Chances of the Families of the Jewish Workers from Antwerp / Dorien Styven, Veerle Vanden Daelen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: New microhistorical approaches to an integrated history of the Holocaust.

ISBN:

9783110733860

3110733862

9783110733914

OCLC:

1405912040