Companion to the Holocaust

Simone Gigliotti is a Senior Lecturer/Reader in Holocaust Studies in the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London.Hilary Earl is a Professor of European History at Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada. She is the author of the award-winning book, The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History.

• Notes on Editors and Contributors ixIntroduction 1Simone Gigliotti and Hilary EarlTheme 1 New Orientations and Topical Integrations 191 “Final Solution,” Holocaust, Shoah, or Genocide? From Separate to Integrated Histories 21Devin O. Pendas2 Raphael Lemkin and Genocide before the Holocaust: Ethnic and Religious Minorities under Attack 45Cathie Carmichael3 Ideologies of Race: The Construction and Suppression of Otherness in Nazi Germany 59Dan Stone4 Queering Holocaust Studies: New Frameworks for Understanding Nazi Homophobia and the Politics of Sexuality under National Socialism 75William J. Spurlin5 The Holocaust as Genocide: Milestones in the Historiographical Discourse 95Daniel BlatmanTheme 2 Plunder, Extermination, and Prosecution 1156 Old Nazis, Ordinary Men, and New Killers: Synthetic and Divergent Histories of Perpetrators 117Edward B. Westermann7 The Nazi War Economy, the Forced Labor System, and the Murde of Jewish and Non‐Jewish Workers 135Mark Spoerer8 All the Other Neighbors: Communal Genocide in Eastern Europe 153Waitman Wade Beorn9 War Crimes Trials, the Holocaust, and Historiography, 1943–2011 173Kim Christian Priemel10 Crimes against Culture: From Plunder to Postwar Restitution Politics 191Bianca GaudenziTheme 3 Reframing Jewish Histories 20911 Characteristics of Holocaust Historiography and Their Contexts since 1990: Emphases, Perceptions, Developments, Debates 211Dan Michman12 A Sustained Civilian Struggle: Rethinking Jewish Responses to the Nazi Regime 233David Engel13 Ghettos and Ghettoization – History and Historiography 247Guy Miron14 Survivors of the Holocaust within the Nazi Universe of Camps 263Martin C. Dean15 Social Networks of Support: Trajectories of Escape, Rescue and Survival 279Natalia Aleksiun16 A Young Person’s War: The Disrupted Lives of Children and Youth 295Joanna B. Michlic17 Anything But Silent: Jewish Responses to the Holocaust in the Aftermath of World War II 311Elisabeth Gallas and Laura JockuschTheme 4 Local, Mobile, and Transnational Holocausts 33118 Geographies of the Holocaust 333Tim Cole19 The Global “Final Solution” and Nazi Imperialism 349Gerhard L. Weinberg20 Refugees’ Routes: Emigration, Resettlement, and Transmigration 363Susanne Heim21 The Geopolitics of Neutrality: Diplomacy, Refuge, and Rescue during the Holocaust 381David A. Messenger22 Spain and the Holocaust: Contested Past, Contested Present 397Alejandro Baer and Pedro Correa23 Contesting the “Zionist” Narrative: Arab Responses to the Holocaust 413Esther Webman24 Redrawing Holocaust Geographies: A Cartography of Vichy and Nazi Reach into North Africa 431Aomar BoumTheme 5 Witnessing in Dialogue: Testifiers, Readers, and Viewers 44925 The Holocaust Witness: Wartime and Postwar Voices 451Alan Rosen26 Sexual Violence: Recovering a Suppressed History 469Monika J. Flaschka27 Ethical Grey Zones: On Coercion and Complicity in the Concentration Camp and Beyond 487Jonathan Druker28 Holocaust Photography and the Challenge of the Visual 503Carol Zemel29 Holocaust Memory in a Post‐Survivor World: Bearing Lasting Witness 519Nicholas Chare30 Postmemory: Digital Testimony and the Future of Witnessing 537Noah ShenkerTheme 6 Human Rights and Visual Culture: Pivots and Disruptions 55331 The Problem of Human Rights after the Holocaust 555Valerie Hébert32 Indigenous Genocide and Perceptions of the Holocaust in Canada 577David B. MacDonald33 Lessons from History? The Future of Holocaust Education 599Avril Alba34 The Changing Landscape of Holocaust Memorialization in Poland 619Amanda F. Grzyb35 #Holocaust #Auschwitz: Performing Holocaust Memory on Social Media 639Meghan Lundrigan36 Contemporary Holocaust Film Beyond Mimetic Imperatives 657Daniel H. MagilowIndex 673

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