Microhistories of the Holocaust

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78920-054-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 488 g

Reihe: War and Genocide

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zalc, Claire

Bruttmann, Tal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Antisemitismus, Pogrome, Shoah
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of tables

List of photos

Introduction: Towards a Microhistory of the Holocaust

Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann

PART I: BIOGRAPHIES, GROUPS, TRANSPORTS, GHETTOS: THE SCALES OF ANALYSIS

Chapter 1. An Inconceivable Emigration. Richard Frank’s flight from Germany to Switzerland in 1942

Christoph Kreutzmüller

Chapter 2. Pursuing Escape from Vienna: The Katz Family’s Correspondence

Melissa Jane Taylor

Chapter 3. Moving Together, Moving Alone: The Story of Boys on a Transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald

Kenneth Waltzer

Chapter 4. Dehumanizing the Dead. The Destruction of Thessaloniki’s Jewish Cemetery

Leon Saltiel

Chapter 5. Reconstructing Trajectories of Persecution: Reflections on a Prosopography of Holocaust Victims

Nicolas Mariot and Claire Zalc

Chapter 6. Microhistories, Microgeographies: Budapest, 1944 and Scales of Analysis

Tim Cole

PART II: FACE-TO-FACE: VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS

Chapter 7. Microhistory of the Holocaust in Poland: New Sources, New Trails

Jan Grabowski

Chapter 8. Jewish Slave Workers in the German Aviation Industry

Daniel Uziel

Chapter 9. The Devil in Microhistory: The “Hunt for Jews” as a Social Process, 1942-1945

Tomasz Frydel

Chapter 10. On the Persistence of Moral Judgment: Local Perpetrators in Transnistria as Seen by Survivors and Their Christian Neighbors

Vladimir Solonari

Chapter 11. Defiance and Protest. A Comparative Microhistorical Reevaluation of Individual Jewish Responses to Nazi Persecution

Wolf Gruner

Chapter 12. The Murder of the Jews in Ostrów Mazowiecka in November 1939

Markus Roth

Chapter 13. Échirolles, August 7 1944: a Triple Execution

Tal Bruttmann

Chapter 14. The Beginning: First Massacres against the Jews in the Romanian Holocaust. Level of Decision, Genocidal Strategy and Killing Methods regarding Dorohoi and Galati Pogroms, June-July, 1940

Alexandru Muraru

PART III: THE MATERIAL FOR SHIFTING SCALES: SOURCES BETWEEN TESTIMONIES AND ARCHIVES

Chapter 15. The Holocaust and Postwar Justice in Poland in Three Acts

Andrew Kornbluth

Chapter 16. The Small and the Good: Microhistory Through the Eyes of the Witness. A Case Study

Hannah Pollin-Galay

Chapter 17. The Witness against the Archive: towards a Microhistory of Christianstadt

Jeffrey Wallen

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bruttmann, Tal
Tal Bruttmann is a researcher whose work focuses on the various anti-Jewish policies implemented in France between 1940 and 1944, as well as the “Final Solution.” He has published several books, the most recent of which was Auschwitz (La Découverte, 2015). He is currently working on a project about the “Auschwitz album” photos.

Zalc, Claire
Claire Zalc is a Research Professor (directrice de recherche) in history at the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, CNRS-ENS and at the EHESS. Among several publications, she recently edited "L'histoire de la Shoah face à ses sources", a special issue of Vingtième siècle. Revue d'histoire, 2018. She specializes in the history of immigration in twentieth-century France and the history of French Jews during World War II. She was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2013.

Claire Zalc is a Research Professor (directrice de recherche) in history at the Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, CNRS-ENS and at the EHESS. Among several publications, she recently edited "L'histoire de la Shoah face à ses sources", a special issue of Vingtième siècle. Revue d'histoire, 2018. She specializes in the history of immigration in twentieth-century France and the history of French Jews during World War II. She was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2013.