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In 'Holocaust Digital,' the focus lies on the impact of digitalization on Holocaust discourses. It centers around the effects this has on collective memories and the perception of this historical event within German and English-speaking contexts. Due to the complexity of the subject, the study is methodologically interdisciplinary, exploring websites of selected memory institutions, networks, as well as selected social media, forums, and blogs.
The results compellingly demonstrate that online media have led to multifaceted changes in the negotiations of the Holocaust. On the one hand, they significantly expanded access to information about the Holocaust, making it more multimedia-oriented and introducing a wider range of voices into the discussion. Thus, the online negotiation of the Holocaust has increasingly become interactive and participatory. On the other hand, these altered practices have also created space for misinformation, denial, and distortions. Furthermore, digitization has changed the way in which the memory of the Holocaust is shaped. Memorials, museums, and educational institutions increasingly use digital media to convey information. These changes not only shape how the Holocaust is perceived but also raise important questions about authenticity, culture of remembrance, and society's responsibility in the digital age.

This volume is both a study of the history of Polish Jews and Jewish Poland before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust and a collection of personal explorations focusing on the historians who write about these subjects. While the first three parts of the book focus on "text," the broad nature of Polish Jewish history surrounding the Holocaust, the last section focuses on subtext, the personal and professional experiences of scholars who have devoted years to researching and writing about Polish Jewry. The beginning sections present a variety of case studies on wartime and postwar Polish Jews, drawing on new research and local history. The final part is a reflection on family memory, where scholars discuss their connections to Holocaust history and its impact on their current lives and research. Viewed together, the combination sheds light on both history and historians: the challenges of dealing with the history of an unparalleled cataclysm, and the personal questions and dilemmas that its study raises for many of the historians engaged in it. Holocaust History, Holocaust Memory is a unique resource that will appeal to students and scholars studying the Second World War, Jewish and Polish history, and family history.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Defining the Digital in Digital Holocaust Memory, Education and Research -- SECTION I: (NEW) DIMENSIONS IN TESTIMONY -- Chapter 2: Virtually Part of the Family: The Last Goodbye and Digital Holocaust Witnessing -- Chapter 3: Realms of Digital Memory: Methodological Approaches to 360° Testimony on Location -- Chapter 4: The Production of German and Russian-Language Interactive Biographies: (Trans)National Holocaust Memory between the Broadcast and Hyperconnective Ages -- SECTION II: (WEB)SITES OF MEMORY -- Chapter 5: MEMOZE: Memory Places, Memory Spaces: 'Glocal' Holocaust Education through an Online Research Portal -- Chapter 6: Visualising Evidence and Landscapes of Atrocities: An Ethical Perspective -- Chapter 7: Active Learning in Digital Heritage: Introducing Geolocalisation, VR and AR at Holocaust Historical Sites -- SECTION III (VIRTUAL) MEMORY COMMUNITIES -- Chapter 8 Becoming the 'Holocaust Police'? The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum's Authority on Social Media -- Chapter 9 i-Memory: Selfies and Self-Witnessing in #Uploading_Holocaust (2016) -- Chapter 10 Playing Pretend on Social Media -- Chapter 11 AFTERWORD: Digital Holocaust Memory Futures: Through Paradigms of Immersion and Interactivity and Beyond.

Verlagsinfo: Wie überlebt man das Überleben? Zeitzeugeninterviews des Holocaust in ihrem historischen, institutionellen und medialen Kontext. Mehr als 70 Jahre nach Kriegsende wird eindringlicher denn je das Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft beschworen. Die Erinnerung an Krieg und Holocaust, so die Sorge, werde ohne die direkten Augenzeugen verblassen, sich in den endlosen Lauf der "kalten Geschichte" einreihen. Jan Taubitz zeigt, wie bereits vor mehr als 35 Jahren etliche Oral History Archive dieser Entwicklung mit der systematischen Aufnahme, Konservierung und Verbreitung zehntausender audio-visueller Interviews mit Überlebenden des Holocaust entgegentraten. Die Initiative ging von US-amerikanischen Museen, Archiven, Bibliotheken, Stiftungen und Graswurzelbewegungen aus. Somit drängen sich folgende Fragen auf: In welchem Verhältnis stehen die Zeugnisse zur amerikanischen Kultur sowie zu der von ihr hervorgebrachten Oral History? Wer waren die Hauptakteure? Welche Beziehungen lassen sich zu anderen, vor allem populären Darstellungen des Holocaust nachweisen? Wie wirkt sich der digitale Wandel auf die Zeugnisse aus? Und schliesslich: Können die Holocaust Oral Histories das Ende der Zeitzeugenschaft tatsächlich überwinden?

Get Started -- Chapter 1 The Individual and Society -- Introduction -- 1. The Bear That Wasn't -- 2. The Danger of a Single Story -- 3. Names and Identity -- 4. Finding One's Voice -- 5. The Eye of the Beholder -- 6. Gender and Identity -- 7. Defining Race -- 8. The Social Reality of Race -- 9. The Consequences of Stereotyping -- 10. The Blink of an Eye -- 11. Little Things Are Big -- 12. Words Matter -- 13. Religion and Identity -- 14. Fear -- 15. The "In" Group -- 16. Finding Confidence -- 17. One Identity, Multiple Belongings -- Analysis and Reflection -- Chapter 2 We and They -- Introduction -- 1. What Do We Do with a Difference? -- 2. Universe of Obligation -- 3. Understanding Strangers -- 4. First Encounters in the Americas -- 5. We and They in Colonial America -- 6. Inventing Black and White -- 7. Who Is Human? -- 8. The Science of Race -- 9. We the People in the United States -- 10. Religion, Loyalty, and Belonging -- 11. Breeding Society's "Fittest" -- 12. Creating the German Nation -- 13. Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment -- 14. From Religious Prejudice to Antisemitism -- 15. "Expansion Was Everything" -- 16. Imperialism, Conquest, and Mass Murder -- Analysis and Reflection -- Chapter 3 World War: Choices and Consequences -- Introduction -- 1. 1914: War or Peace? -- 2. Turning Us against Them -- 3. A Last-Ditch Effort to Prevent a War -- 4. War Fever in Vienna -- 5. Between Peace and War -- 6. The Brutal Realities of World War I -- 7. Building Support on the Home Front -- 8. The Western Front at the Cinema -- 9. Hatred on the Home Front -- 10. Genocide under the Cover of War -- 11. Russia Quits the War -- 12. Disillusion on the Battlefield -- 13. Commemorating the War -- 14. Negotiating Peace -- 15. Self-Determination -- 16. The League of Nations -- 17. People without Papers -- Analysis and Reflection

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