Pub Date : 2021-05-15DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1894018
D. Bergen, Sara E. Brown, Stephanie Corazza, P. David, H. Greenspan, Sara R. Horowitz
ABSTRACT This Forum is a discussion among six contributors deeply familiar with the challenges of analyzing survivor testimony, each with a distinct methodological approach to the topic of sexual violence and the Holocaust. Topics addressed in the discussion include the challenges posed by studying survivor testimonies to learn about sexual violence, the theme of silence and how scholars can mitigate the role they play in reinforcing it, how gender as a category of analysis intersects with other approaches, considerations related to age and memory, and the role of the audience in shaping how survivors communicate their experiences. The Forum discussion grew out of a scholarly conference held in Toronto in October 2018, titled Buried Words: A Workshop on Sexuality, Violence and Holocaust Testimonies. The workshop was organized by the Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program and was inspired by its publication of several memoirs detailing experiences of sexual abuse and violence and other sexual encounters during the Holocaust, including Buried Words: The Diary of Molly Applebaum. This Forum features several of the participating scholars in conversation, addressing important questions that arose during the workshop.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-15DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1893300
D. Dwork
ABSTRACT Until recently, silence has shrouded the experience of sexual abuse of and sexual barter by Jewish adolescent boys during the Holocaust. Nate Leipciger’s memoir, The Weight of Freedom, published by the Azrieli Foundation in 2015, offers a rare window onto a phenomenon singularly absent from young Jewish males’ narratives and scholarship about their lives. This paper investigates Leipciger’s memoir closely, exploring the at once abusive and beneficial sexual relationships that Nate describes. And it reflects upon the silence — survivors’ silence and scholars’ silence — around these interactions, examining the prompts for it and shifting interpretations over time.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-22DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1917146
Hannah Holtschneider
This is a timely study that adds much nuance and insight to the continued debates about the place of the Holocaust in British public discourse. Eight chapters structured into two parts take the rea...
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Pub Date : 2021-04-20DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1915016
A. Ballis, Lisa Schwendemann
ABSTRACT Our study will turn to one Jewish male Holocuast survivor who visited ten high schools in Germany from January to March 2020. Based on the results of empirical and theoretical considerations of testifying, a communicative model was considered appropriate for understanding the encounter. Of special concern was to what extent trustworthiness was constructed during these talks by students. A mixed methods approach was chosen, combining testimony analysis with empirical tools in social science. The result of the study points to the students’ trust in the survivor story, which is supported by the school institution and by the survivor’s narration, his rhetorical strategies, and his personality.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1910438
A. Stähler
ABSTRACT This article interrogates examples of alternative histories in contemporary British Jewish writing which redraw and reinterpret the topography of the Holocaust. More specifically, it explores the tensions which arise in Clive Sinclair’s short story ‘Ashkenazia’ (1980) and Dan Jacobson’s novel The God-Fearer (1992) between notions of a Jewish heterotopia, the re-inscription of historical topographies, and the imaginary of the Holocaust. Set in an imaginary Jewish state, which is mapped onto the pre-existing Jewish topography of the loosely defined Ashkenaz of historical reality, both texts unfold alternative histories which, though imagined, nevertheless cannot un-think the historical occurrence of the Holocaust.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-03DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2019.1637494
Daniel H. Magilow
ABSTRACT Recent trials of elderly Holocaust perpetrators have foregrounded an epistemological problem with consequences for future prosecutions: what status do witness testimonies, survivor memoirs, and blurry photographs have as the Holocaust’s final witnesses die off? This article interprets Atom Egoyan’s Remember (2015), a Holocaust revenge fantasy whose geriatric protagonist suffers from dementia. Dementia becomes a metaphor for memory’s unreliability and its challenges for Holocaust jurisprudence. Through plot twists predicated upon viewers’ willingness to misperceive familiar tropes of Holocaust cinema as fact, Remember thematizes the need for a jurisprudence based on expertise, not witness testimony, even in an age skeptical of expertise.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-29DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1906077
L. Shields, J. Manning, M. Mcallister, D. O'Brien, Kirril Shields, T. Emeto, Donna Lee Brien, J. Murray, S. Benedict
ABSTRACT More nurses than doctors killed in the Holocaust but are little studied. In Nazi ‘euthanasia’ institutional patients, with others, were killed by nurses. A German film, Fog in August (2016), tells of a boy caught in Nazi ‘euthanasia’. We piloted the film to increase knowledge about nurses in Nazi ‘euthanasia’. In Australia, 21 participants (health professionals, community members) completed pre-and-post questionnaires testing levels of knowledge. Knowledge increased – median post-score (1.75) > pre-score (1.0), median of differences 0.5 (p = 0.001). This film effectively increased knowledge, and the study methods worked. We will develop a project to teach nurses about genocides.
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Pub Date : 2021-03-19DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1894831
Gilly Carr
ABSTRACT This paper presents the first ever analysis of the 1930s logbooks of the aliens in the Channel Island of Guernsey; logbooks termed here as ‘objects of collaboration’ because of the role they played in the persecution and deportation of the island’s Jews. When placed in context, they highlight both the complicity of the local authorities and show how Britain failed Jewish refugees. This paper also suggests why Jews decided to register as such when they had no identifying paperwork. Close inspection of the logbooks facilitates new suggestions regarding the differential treatment of categories of Jews by the German occupying authorities.
{"title":"‘You are requested to ascertain the nationality of Jews residing in Guernsey’: analysing an artefact of collaboration from the Channel Island of Guernsey, 1933–1940","authors":"Gilly Carr","doi":"10.1080/17504902.2021.1894831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2021.1894831","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper presents the first ever analysis of the 1930s logbooks of the aliens in the Channel Island of Guernsey; logbooks termed here as ‘objects of collaboration’ because of the role they played in the persecution and deportation of the island’s Jews. When placed in context, they highlight both the complicity of the local authorities and show how Britain failed Jewish refugees. This paper also suggests why Jews decided to register as such when they had no identifying paperwork. Close inspection of the logbooks facilitates new suggestions regarding the differential treatment of categories of Jews by the German occupying authorities.","PeriodicalId":36890,"journal":{"name":"Holocaust Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"95 - 118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17504902.2021.1894831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47593216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2021.1882770
Shahar Marnin-Distelfeld
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the artwork of Israeli artist, Rachel Nemesh, a Second-Generation Holocaust Survivor. The assemblage to be discussed was exhibited in her solo exhibition, One Flesh, in 2020. The corpus analysis will be divided into four themes: (a) The Big Mother – works describing the elderly mother of Nemesh in a monumental manner; (b) Pieta versions – works focusing on bodily scenes of mother and daughter closely tangled; (c) Body-Parts: works showing randomly detached body organs; (d) Domestic Space – the artist's mother in her home. The study will be framed by two main fields: art centering on the Holocaust and feminist ideas focusing on mother-daughter relationships. Theoretical and visual examination will be enhanced by interviews with the artist aiming at profoundly decoding her artwork, claimed to resonate a feminine artistic language. An attempt to formulate an original interpretation of Holocaust Second-Generation's art, combined with a feminist point of view, will be made here. Rachel Nemesh's artwork is being investigated here for the very first time.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-15DOI: 10.1080/17504902.2020.1863072
Orna Levin, L. Baratz
ABSTRACT This paper examines children's Holocaust literature as a mechanism for dealing with a traumatic past. The study's corpus includes 131 books, in which secrecy is a central motif. In 51 of these books, hiding is an essential part of the protagonist’s secret. The research approach was qualitative, employing both hermeneutic and content analysis of these texts. Three literary devices were revealed, each of which represents a principal component of the literary construct. These literary devices shape the secrecy-theme, and enable the processing to the traumatic past functions as a tool for distinguishing and distancing the present from the traumatic event.
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