The Holocaust as active memory : the past in the present / edited by Marie Louise Seeberg, Irene Levin, Claudia Lenz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the Holocaust as active memory / Marie Louise Seeberg, Irene Levin and Claudia Lenz -- Linking religion and family: memories of children hidden in Belgian convents during the Holocaust / Suzanne Vromen -- Collective trajectory and generational work in families of Jewish displaced persons: epistemological processes in the research situation / Lena Inowlocki -- In a double voice: representations of the Holocaust in Polish literature, 1980-2011 / Dorota Glowacka -- Winners once a year?: how Russian-speaking Jews in Germany make sense of World War II and the Holocaust as part of transnational biographic experience / Julia Bernstein -- Women's peace activism and the Holocaust: reversing the hegemonic Holocaust discourse in Israel / Tova Benski and Ruth Katz -- 'The history, the papers, let me see it!' compensation processes: the second generation between archive truth and family speculations / Nicole L. Immler -- From rescue to escape in 1943: on a path to de-victimizing the Danish Jews / Sofie Lene Bak -- Finland, the vernichtungskrieg and the Holocaust / Oula Silvennoinen -- Swedish rescue operations during the Second World War: accomplishments and aftermath / Ulf Zaner -- The social phenomenon of silence / Irene Levin.