Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century

Tim Cole is a professor of social history at the University of Bristol.Simone Gigliotti is a senior lecturer in Holocaust Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London.

• Introduction: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age, Tim Cole and Simone GigliottiPart I. Tropes Reconsidered1. Re-imagining the ‘gray zone’: Female Prisoner Functionaries in the Groß-Rosen Subcamps, 1944-45, Andrea Rudorff2. The Muselmann Liberated: Impossible Holocaust Metaphors in Survivor Memoirs and Photography, Sharon B. Oster3. Absent Presence, Pathological Afterimages, and the Aesthetics of Excrement, Holli Levitsky4. When one door closes, another opens: The Demjanjuk Trials in Israel (1986-1993) and in Germany (2009-2011), Yehudit Dori-DestonPart II. Survival Strategies and Obstructions5. The Geographies of Living Underground: Escape Routes and Hiding Spaces of Fugitive Jews in the Bavarian Countryside, 1939-1945, Susanna Schrafstetter6. Bella Hazan Ya`ari: A Member of the Jewish Resistance in Pursuit of Self and a Future, Dalia Ofer7. Migration Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Chile, Colombia and Mexico, Lorena Avila, Nancy Nicholls, and Yael SimanPart III. Digital Methods, Digital Memory8. A Different Approach to Microhistory: The Arrests of the Jews of the Vaucluse as Seen through Quantitative Prosopography, Adrien Dallaire9. Mind the Gap: Reading Across the Holocaust Testimonial Archive, Anne Kelly Knowles, Paul B. Jaskot, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano10. When the Index is Wrong: Exploring Black Holes in Victim Memory, Hannah Pollin-Galay11. People, Places, Things: Considering the Role of Visitor Photography at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”Meghan LundriganAuthor biographies

“Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti bring together a fascinating range of approaches from social history to cultural and migration and media studies, historical geography, literary studies, and linguistics. Their volume shows how methodological challenges of Holocaust scholarship can be addressed by taking on two scales of analysis—the microhistory of the individual and the mezzo-history of social groups.” —Natalia Aleksiun, author of Conscious History: Polish-Jewish Historians before the Holocaust