by Sarah Cushman, Joanne Pettit and Dominic Williams Cover of The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau, photo courtesy of Routledge Handbooks We were approached by Routledge to edit The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2020. At the time, Robert Langham, the commissioning editor, noted the growing ‘rich and varied’ literature on Auschwitz and suggested that it … Continue reading Editing The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Kobryn, Belarus: A Tale of One City, the Holocaust, and a Family Secret Through Reading a Yizkor Book
Dr Daniela Ozacky Stern Over the last hundred years, the city of Kobryn has known four different regimes: Polish, Soviet, German, and Belarussian. The upheavals of the twentieth century left their mark on its residents, mainly on its thriving Jewish community, which no longer exists. In 1951, a small group of Jewish survivors issued a … Continue reading Kobryn, Belarus: A Tale of One City, the Holocaust, and a Family Secret Through Reading a Yizkor Book
The British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies 