A Companion to the Holocaust.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Co-editors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Notes -- Theme 1 New Orientations and Topical Integrations -- Chapter One "Final Solution," Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide? From Separate to Integrated Histories -- The First Histories -- The Khurbn-Forshung Tradition -- The History of the Holocaust as Jewish History -- The History of the "Final Solution" as Perpetrator History -- The History of the Shoah as Integrated History -- The History of Nazi Genocide as World History -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Two Raphael Lemkin and Genocide before the Holocaust: Ethnic and Religious Minorities under Attack -- The Genocides of World War I -- Political and National Instability after 1918 -- Conclusions: Raphael Lemkin and Genocide before the Holocaust -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Three Ideologies of Race: The Construction and Suppression of Otherness in Nazi Germany -- Historiography -- Spaces of Exclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Four Queering Holocaust Studies: New Frameworks for Understanding Nazi Homophobia and the Politics of Sexuality under National Socialism -- Historical Context -- The Weimar Republic -- Nazi Germany -- Persecutions against Lesbians -- Postwar and Contemporary Effects of Nazi Homophobia -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Five The Holocaust as Genocide: Milestones in the Historiographical Discourse -- The Survivor's Insight -- The Search for a Narrative -- Comparative Conceptualization -- Towards a New Integrated History? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Theme 2 Plunder, Extermination, and Prosecution -- Chapter Six Old Nazis, Ordinary Men, and New Killers: Synthetic and Divergent Histories of Perpetrators -- "Ordinary Men" or "Willing Executioners"?.

The German Army and Genocide -- Agents of Annihilation: The SS and Police Complex -- The Center and Periphery and the Geography of Genocide -- Gender, the Volksgemeinschaft, and Genocide -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Seven The Nazi War Economy, the Forced Labor System, and the Murder of Jewish and Non-Jewish Workers -- The Forced Labor System in and for the German Reich -- Jewish Forced Labor and the Holocaust13 -- "Useless Eaters": East European Forced Laborers Labeled asMentally Ill or "Durably Unable to Work"27 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Eight All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe -- Communal Genocide -- Communal Violence and Genocide - All Violence Is Local -- Communal Genocide in Lwów -- Explaining Communal Genocide in the Holocaust -- Remembering Communal Genocide: A Time to Forget, No Time to Remember -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Nine War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943-2011 -- Terminology, Numbers, Research Questions -- Allied Retribution in Occupied Germany -- Liberated Europe -- Perpetrator and Victim Nations -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Ten Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to Postwar Restitution Politics -- Vandalism and Plunder, 1933-45 -- Restitution as "Second Expropriation,"? 1945-56 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Theme 3 Reframing Jewish Histories -- Chapter Eleven Characteristics of Holocaust Historiography and Their Contexts since 1990: Emphases, Perceptions, Developments, Debates -- Processes -- Impacts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twelve A Sustained Civilian Struggle: Rethinking Jewish Responses to the Nazi Regime -- Resistance: Definition and Historiography -- Alternative Frameworks -- Conclusion -- Recommended Reading.

Chapter Thirteen Ghettos and Ghettoization: - History and Historiography -- Anti-Jewish Ghettoization Policy -- Ghettos from the Bottom Up: Basic Features and Regional Versions -- Ghettos from within -- Conclusion: Future Research Challenges -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Fourteen Survivors of the Holocaust within the Nazi Universe of Camps -- The Murder of the Jews and the Concentration Camps -- Segregated Labor Deployment and Informal Camps for Jews inside the Reich -- Forced Labor Camps for Jews in the Occupied East -- Tracing the Paths of Jewish Survivors through the Nazi Camp Universe -- Decentralized Camps for Jews and "Half-Jews" in 1944-45 -- Conclusion -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Fifteen Social Networks of Support: Trajectories of Escape, Rescue and Survival1 -- Statistics -- Individuals -- Familial, Political, and Religious Networks -- Underground Organizations -- Jews Rescuing Jews -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Sixteen A Young Person's War: The Disrupted Lives of Children and Youth -- Children in the World of Ghettos and on the "Aryan" Side -- Disabled Jewish Children during the Holocaust -- Children in the Universe of Concentration and Death Camps -- Hidden Children -- Children's Testimonies as a Historical Source and Narrative Voice -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Seventeen Anything But Silent: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in the Aftermath of World War II -- Initiating Transitional Justice: Jewish Legal Responses to the Holocaust -- Documenting Nazi Crimes: Historiographical Responses to the Holocaust -- Creating Spaces of Memory: Jewish Practices of Commemoration after the Holocaust -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Theme 4 Local, Mobile, and Transnational Holocausts -- Chapter Eighteen Geographies of the Holocaust -- Pioneers -- Scale -- Space and Place.

Spatial Experience -- Future Directions -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Nineteen The Global "Final Solution" and Nazi Imperialism -- The Racial Worldview -- Paths to Destruction -- War and Genocide -- The Future Holocaust in North Africa and the Middle East -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty Refugees' Routes: Emigration, Resettlement, and Transmigration -- The Development of the Refugee Crisis -- The Spread of Anti-Jewish Policies -- The Evian Conference -- Driving Jews out of the Country -- Countries of Refuge or of Refusal? -- British Immigration Policy -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty-One The Geopolitics of Neutrality: Diplomacy, Refuge, and Rescue during the Holocaust -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Two Spain and the Holocaust: Contested Past, Contested Present -- The Holocaust in Spain's History: So Distant, Yet So Near -- The Holocaust in Spanish Memory (1945-2000) -- Holocaust Remembrance and Memory Conflicts (2000-15) -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Three Contesting the "Zionist" Narrative: Arab Responses to the Holocaust -- Dissociation and Intensive Preoccupation -- Contemporary Discourse on the Holocaust -- Fascination with the Nazi Leader -- Responses to the Death of Elie Wiesel -- Egyptian Writers on the Holocaust -- Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas's Statement on the Holocaust -- Early Representation of the Holocaust: The Reparations Agreement between Germany and Israel -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Four Redrawing Holocaust Geographies: A Cartography of Vichy and Nazi Reach into North Africa -- Un-silencing History and the Challenge of Modern Politics -- Jews, Muslims and the Threat of Antisemites in North Africa during the 1930s -- North African Jews and Vichy France and Nazi Occupation.

Post-World War II Narratives and Challenges of Remembrance -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Theme 5 Witnessing in Dialogue: Testifiers, Readers, and Viewers -- Chapter Twenty-Five The Holocaust Witness: Wartime and Postwar Voices -- Wartime -- Postwar -- Testimony and Literature -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Six Sexual Violence: Recovering a Suppressed History -- Defining Our Terms -- Rape as the Exception to the Rule: The Rassenschande Laws -- The Source Debate -- What Do We Know?: Victims and Perpetrators -- "Choiceless Choice" or Agency -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Seven Ethical Grey Zones: On Coercion and Complicity in the Concentration Camp and Beyond -- Historical Background -- Summary and Discussion of the Essay -- Disputed Matters of Interpretation -- Innovative Applications and Future Research -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Eight Holocaust Photography and the Challenge of the Visual -- History of the Pictures -- Postwar Evidence -- Holocaust Photographs: Moral and Ethical Response -- Museums and the Ethics of Display -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Twenty-Nine Holocaust Memory in a Post‐Survivor World: Bearing Lasting Witness -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Chapter Thirty Postmemory: Digital Testimony and the Future of Witnessing -- Frames of Interpretation -- Exemplary and Unexemplary Witnesses -- Olga K.: A Case Study of an Exemplary Witness -- Richard K.: A Case Study of an Unexemplary Witness -- Testimonies beyond the Shoah -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Theme 6 Human Rights and Visual Culture: Pivots and Disruptions -- Chapter Thirty-One The Problem of Human Rights after the Holocaust -- The Long History of Human Rights in the West -- The Holocaust and the Evolution of Human Rights Law.

The Holocaust and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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