German Holocaust Literature: Trends and Tendencies

German Women and the Holocaust

Who died in the Holocaust? Recovering names from official records.

The names of most Holocaust victims from Central and East Europe have remained unknown, but can be retrieved from official records, as illustrated here for the town of Liepāja, Latvia. Drawing on thirteen different sources, the authors have recovered the names and fates of about 7,000 of the 7,140 Jews once living there. The main source (5,700 names) is a census conducted during August 1941, th...

German Memory of the Holocaust: The Emergence of Counter-Memorials

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...

Same Space, Different Stories: German and Jewish memories of Bukovina after the Second World War

This article explores the themes of unity and disunity with regard to German and Jewish memories of Bukovina after the Second World War. Although one often reads in the literature that Bukovina was home to a large number of minorities, notably Jews and Germans, who lived together peacefully and harmoniously, I demonstrate the extent to which this ‘unity’ was challenged by the violent experience...