Mass-Observation and the Holocaust

Kate Marrison is Research Fellow with the Landecker Digital Memory Lab at the University of Sussex, UK.

• PrefaceIntroduction: The Holocaust in the Margins of the Mass Observation Archive Kate Marrison (University of Sussex, UK)Part I: Attitudes and Antisemitism1. How Social Psychological Theories Explain Wartime Hostility towards Jews Anthony Kauders (Keele University, UK)2. Using the Mass-Observation Archive to understand British Public Opinion on the Treatment of Germans and Austrians resident in Britain, 1939-1940 Rachel Pistol (Kings College London, UK)3. Refugees’ Memoirs of Nazi Persecution for British Readers before 1945 Ellen Pilsworth (University of Reading, UK)4. ‘We came here because of the Rain’: The Horror of the German Concentration Camp and Mass Observation Gideon Reuveni (University of Sussex, UK)Part II: Reactions and Responses5. Was Justice Seen to Be Done? Mass-Observation and Public Reflections on Nazi Atrocities in the Aftermath of the Nuremberg Tribunal Caroline Sharples (University of Roehampton, UK)6. The Lens of War Lucy Hooberman (Independent Scholar, UK)7. Coming to Britain 2000 Directive Khaleda Brophy-Harmer (University of Southampton, UK)8. ‘If you have visited Auschwitz…please tell us about your reaction’: Reconsidering Holocaust Consciousness in Britain in the Early 21st Century through the Lens of the Mass Observation Archive Tim Cole (University of Bristol, UK)Part III: Education and Commemoration9. Comparing the Mass Observation Archive and the German-Jewish Collections (University of Sussex) to understand the Holocaust Samira Teuteberg (Kew Gardens, UK)10. Dear Diary…a Consideration of the Wartime Experiences of Young People through their Journaled Accounts Alasdair Richardson (University of Winchester, UK)11. The Interruption of the Interface: Doing Digital Holocaust Memory Practice with Mass Observation Online Kate Marrison (University of Sussex, UK)12. Student Responses Undergraduate Students (University of Sussex, UK)Afterword Tony Kushner (University of Southampton, UK)NotesIndex