Rosie Shackleton, she/herย - I am a Bradfordian living and working in Scotland and have recently graduated with a MA joint honours in German and history from the University of Edinburgh. During my degree I specialised in memory history, especially the work of Robert Tischler, and the memorialisation of the Holocaust in Europe. I am currently … Continue reading Poetry as Memorial: Poetic Markers in Ruth Klรผger’s “Weiter leben: Eine Jugend”
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The Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto: Between Duress and Violence
Dr. Daniela Ozacky Stern Katarzyna Person, Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service During the Nazi Occupation (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021), 232 pages. An early testimony in the Yad Vashem Archives tells of a Jewish policeman from the Biaลystok Ghetto, who performed his duty to the best of his abilities, as long as … Continue reading The Jewish Police in the Warsaw Ghetto: Between Duress and Violence
Viewing Human-Made Catastrophes Together: Discussing the Holocaust and the Climate Crisis Against the Backdrop of COP26
Dr David Tollerton (University of Exeter) Dr David Tollerton is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies and Contemporary Religion at the University of Exeter. His most recent book isย Holocaust Memory and Britainโs Religious-Secular Landscapeย published with Routledge in 2020. During 2019-20 he was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship for his work on Holocaust memory in Britain, and … Continue reading Viewing Human-Made Catastrophes Together: Discussing the Holocaust and the Climate Crisis Against the Backdrop of COP26
Review: Imperial War Museumโs New Holocaust Galleries
Charlie Knight, Hannah Wilson and Natali Beige Charlie Knight is a PhD candidate at the Parkes Institute, University of Southampton, funded by the Wolfson Foundation, his research focuses on German Jewish Refugees in Britain and their connections to families left behind. He previously completed his MA at the University of Exeter and is now one … Continue reading Review: Imperial War Museumโs New Holocaust Galleries
A Silent Battle: Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust
By Elisheva Joshua Elisheva Joshua is a current law student at BPP Law School who also holds a BA in English from Kingโs College London. Elisheva writes widely on topics relating to untold narratives during the Holocaust, Holocaust denial, the Holocaust as evil and literature and anti-Semitism. The millions of Jews killed by the Nazis … Continue reading A Silent Battle: Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust
Jews Were Murdered After the Holocaust as Well
Book review of Lukasz Krzyzanowski, Ghost Citizens: Jewish Return to a Postwar City, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020, 333 pages. By Daniela Ozacky Stern With the end of WWII, hundreds of thousands of Jews remained in Europe. They had survived the Holocaust and now had to decide where and how to lead their new lives. Many decided … Continue reading Jews Were Murdered After the Holocaust as Well
Is DeepFake the Future of Holocaust Memory?
Representing Anne Frank in Times of Artificial Intelligence By Kees Ribbens PhD Kees Ribbens PhD is a senior researcher at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, and Endowed Professor of Popular Historical Culture of Global Conflicts and Mass Violence at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Public history, in the broadest sense … Continue reading Is DeepFake the Future of Holocaust Memory?
Genocide and its Discontents
Christopher Hale is a documentary producer and non-fiction author. He has written about the Nazi genocide in โHimmlerโs Crusadeโ, โHitlerโs Foreign Executionersโ and โDeception: How the Nazis Tricked the Last Jews of Europeโ. In 2020, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh School of Law with an LLM in Human Rights โ focusing on the … Continue reading Genocide and its Discontents
Educating People to Speak Up Against Anti-Semitism and Hate: Theatre Performance of โThin Edge of the Wedgeโ
By Phyllis Zimbler Miller Phyllis Zimbler Miller is a screenwriter, playwright and published author in Los Angeles whose free nonfiction theater project www.ThinEdgeOfTheWedge.com has been developed to combat anti-Semitism and hate while encouraging critical thinking. She is also the co-author of the Jewish holiday book SEASONS FOR CELEBRATION. Definition of "thin edge of the wedge": A minor … Continue reading Educating People to Speak Up Against Anti-Semitism and Hate: Theatre Performance of โThin Edge of the Wedgeโ
โLight in the Tunnelโ: Witnessing to the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution as Intertwined Light and Darkness
By Mie Astrup Jensen and Robert Thompson Mie Astrup Jensen is an ESRC funded PhD researcher in Gender and sexuality studies and Hebrew and Jewish studies, University College London (UCL). She researches lesbian, bi, and queer Jewish womenโs lived experiences in England and Israel. Robert Thompson is a Wolfson Foundation PhD Scholar in the Hebrew … Continue reading โLight in the Tunnelโ: Witnessing to the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution as Intertwined Light and Darkness
The British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies 