Lessons and Legacies XII: New Directions in Holocaust Research and Education

456 Pages·2017·2.305 MB·English

by  Wendy Lower, Lauren Faulkner Rossi (eds.)

LESSONS AND LEGACIES XII

LESSONS AND LEGACIES XII
New Directions in Holocaust Research
and Education
Edited and with an introduction
by Wendy Lower and Lauren Faulkner Rossi
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Dedicated to my grandchildren: Tamar, David, Matthew,
Benjamin, Jacob, and Zoey, with the fervent hope that they
can grow up in a world where all humanity will live
without fear, without prejudice— a peaceful world.
(Theodore Zev Weiss)

Contents
Theodore Zev Weiss
Foreword xi
Wendy Lower and Lauren Faulkner Rossi
Introduction xiii
Jan T. Gross
Opportunistic Killings and Plunder of Jews by
Their Neighbors— a Norm or an Exception in
German- Occupied Europe? 3
Dagmar Herzog
The Obscenity of Objectivity: Post- Holocaust
Antisemitism and the Invention of Post- Traumatic
Stress Disorder 31
I. New Cultural Approaches to the Holocaust
Amos Goldberg
Rumors in the Ghettos: A Case Study of
Cultural History 67
Doris L. Bergen
I Am (Not) to Blame: Intent and Agency in
Personal Accounts of the Holocaust 87
Steven Alan Carr
“To Encompass the Unseeable”: Foreign Film,
Taste Culture, and the American Encounter with
the Postwar Holocaust Film 108
Alon Confino
A World without Jews: Nazi Imagination from
Persecution to Genocide 125
II. Contemporary Controversies and Their Historical Origins
John- Paul Himka
Former Ukrainian Policemen in the Ukrainian
National Insurgency: Continuing the Holocaust
outside German Service 141
Ludivine Broch
The SNCF Affair: Cheminots in the Divided
Memories of Vichy France 164
Mark Joel Webber
Keep Your Distance: “Ethical Duplicity” and
the Holocaust 190
III. Recovery and Loss
Perla Sneh
Khurbn Yiddish: An Absent Absence 215
Elizabeth Anthony
The First Returnees: Holocaust Survivors in
Vienna in the Immediate Postwar Period 232
Karel C. Berkhoff
The Dispersal and Oblivion of the Ashes and
Bones of Babi Yar 256
IV. The Holocaust and Social History: Gender and the Family
Martina Cucchiara
Jewish Girls in Catholic Schools in Nazi Germany,
1933– 1938 279
Natalia Aleksiun
Daily Survival: Social History of Jews in Family
Bunkers in Eastern Galicia 304
Rachel Century
Secretaries, Secrets, and Genocide: Evidence from the
Postwar Investigations of the Female Secretaries of
the RSHA 332
V. Reconsidering Perpetrators
Edward B. Westermann
Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing
Military Strategies of Conquest and Annihilation 359
Idit Gil
Intrigues and Conflicts of Interest as to the
Exploitation of Jewish Labor in Radom, 1942– 1943 381
Lukas Meissel
Not “How Was It Possible,” but “Who Made It
Possible”: The Topic of Perpetrators in Holocaust
Education in Austria 406
Notes on Contributors 429