Sources: Holocaust Literature

German Holocaust Literature: Trends and Tendencies

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The Problem of Holocaust Denial Literature in Libraries

A~STRACT LIBRARIANS HAVE TAKEN ESSENTIALLY three philosophical positions concerning the problem of including Holocaust denial literature in library collections: (1) that such materials must be included to uphold the precepts of intellectual freedom, (2) that they should be excluded because they are false, and (3) that they should be included but labeled as inaccurate. Librarians in different ty...

The Past and the Future of Holocaust Research: From Disparate Sources to an Integrated European Holocaust Research Infrastructure

In order to keep remembering why it was judged so important to build a new Europe 'out of the crematoria of Auschwitz', the 'vital link' between Europe's past and Europe's present should, according to the British historian Tony Judt, be taught over and over again (cf. Judt 2005: 830 f.). Every generation of European historians should re-interpret the message of the Second World War and of the H...

Transmission of Holocaust Trauma

Transmission of Holocaust Trauma Much has been written about how children of Holocaust survivors tend to absorb some of the psychological burdens of their parents. But many questions remain to be answered regarding such parental transmission of Holocaust trauma. What was in fact passed on from parent to child? How does the transmission occur? Do parents invariably transmit and are children equa...

Topographies of Suffering Encountering the Holocaust in Landscape, Literature and Memory