Microhistories of the Holocaust
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Microhistories of the Holocaust

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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Microhistories of the Holocaust

About this book

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe's Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

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Yes, you can access Microhistories of the Holocaust by Claire Zalc,Tal Bruttmann, Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Historiography. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781789200546
eBook ISBN
9781785333675
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historiography
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Microhistories of the Holocaust
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Illustrations and Tables
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Toward a Microhistory of the Holocaust
  7. Part I — Biographies, Groups, Transports, Ghettos: The Scales of Analysis
  8. Chapter 1 — An Inconceivable Emigration: Richard Frank's Flight from Germany to Switzerland in 1942
  9. Chapter 2 — Pursuing Escape from Vienna: The Katz Family's Correspondence
  10. Chapter 3 — Moving Together, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald
  11. Chapter 4 — Dehumanizing the Dead: The Destruction of Thessaloniki's Jewish Cemetery
  12. Chapter 5 — Reconstructing Trajectories of Persecution: Reflections on a Prosopography of Holocaust Victims
  13. Chapter 6 — Microhistories, Microgeographies: Budapest, 1944, and Scales of Analysis
  14. Part II — Face-to-Face: Victims and Perpetrators
  15. Chapter 7 — Microhistory of the Holocaust in Poland: New Sources, New Trails
  16. Chapter 8 — Jewish Slave Workers in the German Aviation Industry
  17. Chapter 9 — The Devil in Microhistory: The "Hunt for Jews" as a Social Process, 1942–1945
  18. Chapter 10 — On the Persistence of Moral Judgment: Local Perpetrators in Transnistria as Seen by Survivors and Their Christian Neighbors
  19. Chapter 11 — Defiance and Protest: A Comparative Microhistorical Reevaluation of Individual Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution
  20. Chapter 12 — The Murder of the Jews of Ostrów Mazowiecka in November 1939
  21. Chapter 13 — Échirolles, 7 August 1944: A Triple Execution
  22. Chapter 14 — The Beginning—First Massacres against the Jews in the Romanian Holocaust: Level of Decision, Genocidal Strategy, and Killing Methods regarding the Dorohoi and Galati Pogroms, June–July, 1940
  23. Part III — The Material for Shifting Scales: Sources between Testimonies and Archives
  24. Chapter 15 — The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland in Three Acts
  25. Chapter 16 — The Small and the Good: Microhistory through the Eyes of the Witness—A Case Study
  26. Chapter 17 — The Witness against the Archive: Toward a Microhistory of Christianstadt
  27. Index