Burning memory : times of testing and reckoning / edited by Alice L. Eckardt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Memory: Blessing, Burden, or Curse? The Shoah as a Burning Memory / Alice L. Eckhardt -- -- I. 1938: A Crucial Turning and Testing -- "No Real Racial Problems...": Australia, Refugees, and the Evian Conference, 1938 / Paul R. Bartrop -- The Kristallnacht in Holocaust Context: Between Burning Books (1933) and Burning Bodies (1943) / Henry R. Huttenbach -- The Pogrom of Kristallnacht in Christian Context / Alice L. Eckhardt -- -- II. How Did We and They Respond? -- Foundations for Orthodox Jewish Theological Response to the Holocaust: 1936-1939 / Gershon Greenburg -- Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Leadership in a Time of Testing / Franklin H. Littell -- How Did We Survive? / Nehama Tec -- -- III. The Response of the Rescuers -- The Rescue of Jewish Children in Poland and the Netherlands / Mordecai Paldiel -- The Italian's Role in the Rescue of Jews / Susan Zuccotti -- The Dutch Dimension of Jewish Rescue / Lawrence Baron -- -- IV. The Pang and Pain of Memory -- A Handful of Memories: Two Levels of Recollection / Frieda W. Aaron -- The Survivor's Return: Reflections on Memory and Place / Karl A. Plank -- "Ist Dies mein Land?" Memoirs of German Women / Susan Lee Pentlin -- -- V. The Cost of Remembering and Not Remembering -- The 8th of May: 1945 and the Years After / Renate Bethage -- Catholics and Jews in Poland Today / Iwona Irwin-Zarecka -- Waldheim, the Pope and the Holocaust / Richard L. Rubenstein -- -- VI. Further Reckonings -- Holocaust History and the Gypsies / Babrielle Tyrnauer -- Christians and Jews in Germany Today, and Bonhoeffer's Sustaining Legacy / Eberhard Bethge -- Black Protestantism and Antisemitism / Hubert G. Locke