The Holocaust

The first book to give sustained critical attention to contemporary plays about the Holocaust, Holocaust Theater offers a vital account of theater’s capacity to represent the effects of Holocaust trauma...

The author recounts her life growing up in the Warsaw ghetto and her experiences in the concentration camps of Majdanek, Auschwitz, Ravensbruck and Neustadt-Glewe. It tells of her remarkable survival and of her life after the horrors of the Holocaust...

This collection provides diverse insights into Jewish-Gentile relations in East Central Europe from the outbreak of the Second World War until the reestablishment of civic societies in the 1990s. This book was originally published as a special issue of Holocaust Studies...

Remembering the Holocaust in Educational Settings investigates the relationship between Holocaust remembrance and different types of educational activity. It is the ideal book for all students, scholars and researchers of the history and memory of the Holocaust as well as those studying and working ..

David Engel’s book is a taut, compact narration that appeals to the intellect as much, if not more, than to the emotions. It is sure to be welcomed by students in departments of History, Politics and European Studies as well as by anyone trying to get to grips with the complex and far-reaching subje..

In this volume, scholars from the United States, Israel and Eastern Europe examine the history of the Holocaust on Soviet territory and its treatment in Soviet politics and literature from 1945 to 1991. Of special interest to researchers will be chapters on some of the major research sources...

What actions did Swedish Jews take to aid the Jews in Europe during the years 1933–45 and what determined their policies and actions? It is this sensitive issue – Jewish responses to the Nazi persecutions and mass murders of Jews – with which this book deals. Focus is given particularly to the aid e..

Seventy years on from the liberation of Auschwitz, this book traces the relationship between Nazi-occupied spaces and Holocaust memory, considering the multitude of ways in which the passing of time impacts upon, or shapes, cultural constructions of space. It is with this understanding of space, as ..

This book focuses on the recruitment of German Jewish scholars and academicians by the Turkish Republic shortly after Hitler came to power, and the fate of Jews of Turkish origin in German-controlled France during WWII. It contrasts the evidence and facts from a wealth of newly disclosed documents t..