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"This volume showcases a detailed look at the multifaceted attempts by Germany's Nazi regime, together with its collaborators, to annihilate the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. Several introductory essays, along with a rich chronology, reference entries, primary documents, images, and a bibliography provide crucial information that readers will need in order to try to understand the Holocaust while undertaking research on that horrible event. This text looks not only at the history of the Holocaust, but also at examples of resistance (through armed violence, attempts at rescue, or the very act of survival itself); literary and cultural expressions that have attempted to deal with the Holocaust; the social and psychological implications of the Holocaust for today; and how historians and other have attempted to do justice to the memory of those killed and seek insight into why the Holocaust happened in the first place"--

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- The Afterdeath of the Holocaust -- My Life with Holocaust Death -- Redemptive and Unredemptive Holocaust Memory -- Representing and Misrepresenting the Holocaust -- Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After -- I -- II -- III -- Holocaust Fact and Holocaust Fiction: The Dual Vision of H.G. Adler -- Beyond Testimony: The Literary Design of Primo Levi's If This Is a Man -- The Legacy of Holocaust Deathscapes -- Memory and Invention in Olga Lengyel's Five Chimneys -- Ner Ot: The Memorial Candle as Symbol in the Art of Samuel Bak -- Index.

This title tells the story of Jewish survivors who pioneered Holocaust research in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Just liberated from Nazi terror, amidst political turmoil and privation, physically exhausted and traumatized women and men founded historical commissions and documentation centers throughout Europe to chronicle the Nazi Final Solution

On the Holocaust and comparative history + update -- Mass death under communist rule and the limits of otherness + update -- Auschwitz and the Gulag : discontinuities and dissimilarities + update -- Children in Auschwitz and the Gulag + update -- On the definition of genocide and the issue of uniqueness + update -- Exploring the Holocaust and comparative history + update -- Extermination trumps production + update -- The murder of Jewish children during the Holocaust + update -- Thoughts on the intersection of rape and Rassenschande + update -- History and Halakha + update -- Exploring the concept of Kol Yisrael Arevim zeh la'zeh + update -- Thinking about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust + update -- Elie Wiesel : the man and his legacy + update -- The issue of confirmation and disconfirmation in Jewish thought + update -- Jewish theologians respond to the Holocaust + update.

Politics, Violence, Memory -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Response Delayed -- 1. Can-or Should-There Be a Political Science of the Holocaust? -- 2. Histories in Motion: The Holocaust, Social Science Research, and the Historian -- Part I Sites of Violence -- 3. Pogrom Violence and Visibility during the Kristallnacht Pogrom -- 4. Historical Legacies and Jewish Survival Strategies during the Holocaust -- 5. A Common History of Violence?: The Pogroms of Summer 1941 in Comparative Perspective -- 6. Mass Violence without Mass Politics: Political Culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania -- Part II New Uses for Old Data on Antisemitism and the Holocaust -- 7. Territorial Loss and Xenophobia in the Weimar Republic: Evidence from Jewish Bogeymen in Children's Stories -- 8. Defeating Typhus in the Warsaw Ghetto: A Scientific Look at Historical Sources -- 9. Holocaust Survival among Immigrant Jews in the Netherlands: A Life Course Approach -- 10. Normalizing Violence: How Catholic Bishops Facilitated Vichy's Violence against Jews -- 11. Using the Yad Vashem Transport Database to Examine Gender and Selection during the Holocaust -- 12. Addressing the Missing Voices in Holocaust Testimony -- Part III Legacies of the Holocaust -- 13. Remembering Past Atrocities: Good or Bad for Attitudes toward Minorities? -- 14. Legitimating Myths and the Holocaust in Postsocialist States -- 15. The International Relations of Holocaust Memory -- Conclusion: From the Micro to the Macro -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.