CFP: British Association for Holocaust Studies Seventh Annual Conference – ‘The Holocaust after 75 years: History, Memory, Legacies’

University of Northumbria, 22-24 July 2020. We welcome paper and panel proposals on the b􏰀oad 􏰁heme of 􏰂The Holoca􏰃􏰄􏰁 af􏰁e􏰀 􏰅􏰆 􏰇ea􏰀􏰄􏰈 Hi􏰄􏰁o􏰀􏰇􏰉 Memo􏰀􏰇􏰉 Legacie􏰄􏰊􏰋 We a􏰀e in􏰁e􏰀e􏰄􏰁ed in 􏰌a􏰌e􏰀􏰄 on all a􏰄􏰌ec􏰁􏰄 of Holoca􏰃􏰄􏰁 􏰄􏰁􏰃die􏰄 and f􏰀om all of i􏰁􏰄 di􏰄ci􏰌line􏰄􏰋 We a􏰀e particularly interested in papers that consider: - The history of the perpetration of … Continue reading CFP: British Association for Holocaust Studies Seventh Annual Conference – ‘The Holocaust after 75 years: History, Memory, Legacies’

David Cameron’s ‘For The Record’ and Public Holocaust Memory

David Tollerton David Tollerton is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Contemporary Religion at the University of Exeter. He currently holds a 12-month fellowship with the Leverhulme Trust and his next monograph, Holocaust Memory and Britain’s Religious-Secular Landscape: Politics, Sacrality, and Diversity,will be published with Routledge in 2020. On 27 January 2014 David Cameron gave … Continue reading David Cameron’s ‘For The Record’ and Public Holocaust Memory

Relief Workers in the Aftermath of the Second World War: Two British Heroes of the Holocaust

Barnabas Balint Barnabas Balint is a Master of Studies student in Modern European History at Magdalen College, Oxford, researching young Jewish resistance in Belgium and France. He completed his undergraduate degree in History at the University of Exeter in 2019. His research interests focus on the Holocaust and Jewish responses to persecution in Hungary, France … Continue reading Relief Workers in the Aftermath of the Second World War: Two British Heroes of the Holocaust

Jane Haining: the Scottish protector of Jews who perished at Auschwitz

Daniel Adamson Given his family connections to Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland, Daniel Adamson (PhD student at Durham University) was inspired to explore further the remarkable story of local figure Jane Haining. A Christian missionary who worked in Budapest, Haining risked her life to assist Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, before herself perishing at Auschwitz-Birkenau … Continue reading Jane Haining: the Scottish protector of Jews who perished at Auschwitz

The Evidence of Humanity? Swedish Efforts to Save Slovak Jews During the Holocaust

Dr. Denisa Nešťáková Dr. Denisa Nešťáková is a historian. Since May 2019 she has worked as a research associate at the Herder Institute for the project “‘Family Planning’ in East Central Europe from the 19th Century until the Authorization of ‘the Pill’”, focusing on Czechoslovakia. She studied History and Slovak language and literature at the Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia), … Continue reading The Evidence of Humanity? Swedish Efforts to Save Slovak Jews During the Holocaust

A Childhood Interrupted in Libau: Interview with Holocaust Survivor George Schwab

HANNAH WILSON Hannah Wilson originates from Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. She was awarded full funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to begin her PhD research at the Department of History, Nottingham Trent University, in October 2016. Prior to this, she studied Fine Art at the University of Leeds, and undertook a Master’s … Continue reading A Childhood Interrupted in Libau: Interview with Holocaust Survivor George Schwab

Where the Trees were the Silent Witnesses…

CHRISTIN ZÜHLKE Christin Zühlke is a PhD Student at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University Berlin, Germany. She holds an B.A. in Philosophy and German Literature and Linguistics and a M.A. in Jewish Studies and Philosophy. Her PhD project focuses on the Yiddish writings of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She became an ELES … Continue reading Where the Trees were the Silent Witnesses…

‘Milkman’ and the Yardstick Holocaust

MICHAEL HOLDEN Michael Holden completed a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature and an MA in English Literature at the University of Sheffield, where he wrote his Master’s thesis on the depiction of Médecins Sans Frontières in the graphic novel form, alongside essays on Holocaust representation. He is currently undertaking his PhD research as … Continue reading ‘Milkman’ and the Yardstick Holocaust

‘Nobody was to be Trusted’: Women’s Holocaust Memoirs Re-Examined

ROSEANNA RAMSDEN Roseanna Ramsden is a second year doctoral candidate in the department of Arts, Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University. In 2017 she was awarded a studentship to conduct further research into women’s experiences and representations of the Holocaust, following the work she carried out during her MA at the University of Leeds. … Continue reading ‘Nobody was to be Trusted’: Women’s Holocaust Memoirs Re-Examined