Lessons and Legacies VIII

by Bergen, Doris L.; Bergen, Doris L.

• ISBN13: 9780810125391
• ISBN10: 0810125390
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-14
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

Primo Levi opened his memoir Survival in Auschwitz with a call to remember, reflect upon, and teach one's children about the Holocaust. The eighth Lessons and Legacies Conference on the Holocaust took up that call, focusing on the transmission of knowledge between generations. This task requires that one look both backward and forward, asking where to locate the roots of the Holocaust and how its repercussions manifest themselves. In this volume, scholars address these questions from historical, cultural, psychiatric, literary, and sociological perspectives. The authors, some of whom are survivors and children of survivors, also consider the personal aspect of associated issues, such as continuity and rupture. The result is a collection that calls us to examine what the generation of the Shoah has passed on to its descendants and what subsequent generations have taken from those legacies. Together these chapters remind us that the Holocaust does-and must-remain present from generation to generation. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Editor's Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Precedents and Antecedents
The Symbol of the Cross: Secularization of a Metaphor from the Early Church to National Socialism	p. 5
The First Genocide of the Twentieth Century: The German War of Destruction in South-West Africa (1904-1908) and the Global History of Genocide	p. 34
Suppressed Memory of Atrocity in World War I and Its Impact on World War II	p. 65
The Final Solution Turns East: How Soviet Internationalism Aided and Abetted Nazi Racial Genocide	p. 83
Testimony, History, and Memory
Interethnic Relations in the Holocaust as Seen Through Postwar Testimonies: Buczacz, East Galicia, 1941-1944	p. 101
Infinite Loneliness: Some Aspects of the Lives of Jewish Women in the Auschwitz Camps According to Testimonies and Autobiographies Written Between 1945 and 1948	p. 125
Rereading Women's Holocaust Memoirs: Liana Millu's Smoke Over Birkenau	p. 157
Breaking the Silence of the Muted Witnesses: Video Testimonies of Psychiatrically Hospitalized Holocaust Survivors in Israel	p. 175
Approaches to Historical Study of the Holocaust
Spanning a Career: Three Editions of Raul Hilberg's Destruction of the European Jews	p. 191
Holocaust Research and Generational Change: Regional and Local Studies Since the Cold War	p. 203
Territorial Revision and the Holocaust: Hungary and Slovakia During World War II	p. 222
Postwar Legacies
The Myth of the Clean Wehrmacht in Cold War America	p. 247
Personal Reflections on Jewish Ghosts in Germany and the Memory of the Holocaust	p. 269
"Poles-Catholics" and "Symbolic Jews": Religion and the Construction of Symbolic Boundaries in Poland	p. 289
Notes on Contributors	p. 323
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