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2 days ago · Hans says it is his first time meeting a Holocaust survivor. (Anita Lasker-Wallfisch is now 98 and one of an estimated 245,000 survivors who remain alive .) “I think what’s important is that ...
4 days ago · Holocaust survivor and humanitarian Elie Wiesel penned these words upon the official opening of Block 27—The Shoah, on June 13, 2013 (Fig. 6.1). Wiesel’s statement testifies to the multiplicity of affective components present—from the juxtaposition of an overly bright entrance followed by a dark hallway accompanied by a recorded children ...
3 days ago · Moreover, the evolution of genocide studies since the beginning of the 1980s and its current relationship with Holocaust studies deserves a chapter by itself: genocide studies started as an offspring of Holocaust studies and so to say under its auspices, but has developed in recent years into an independent field, sometimes even clashing with ...
2 days ago · There has been so much excellent work done in recent years to interrogate what we mean when we say ‘Holocaust’ – Cesarani’s provocative formulation of the Holocaust as a ‘cultural construction’ being a prominent example – that for Rees to content himself with a few lines (p. 252 and pp. 425–6), which even then only address two ...
3 days ago · The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...
1 day ago · In 1990 Robert Gellately completed a major study which investigated the role of the secret police in Nazi Germany. His book, The Gestapo and German Society: Enforcing Racial Policy 1933-1945 (Oxford University Press; Oxford, 1995) demonstrated conclusively that the much feared and allegedly omnipresent Gestapo in fact relied on widespread public support to function effectively.
4 days ago · According to the editors, the volume demonstrates how Hitler's autobiographical manifesto describing his views on Marxism, violence, and leadership, as well as his anti-Semitic rhetoric, travels down the disturbing path from a hateful book to the Holocaust.
