1st Edition

Sources for Studying the Holocaust A Guide

Edited By Paul R. Bartrop Copyright 2023
282 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. For many historians, the challenge has been how to rescue the story from oblivion when oft-used sources for other periods of history introduce even more issues around authenticity and reliability. What can be learned of what transpired in villages... Read more

Introduction Part 1: The Personal Domain 1. Oral History: Hearing the Voice of the Survivors, Joanna Salapska-Gelleri and Paul R. Bartrop; 2. Letters: An Intimate and Innocent Window into History, Tyler Hallatt; 3. Written Remnants of Catastrophe: Holocaust Diaries as Historical Sources, Amy Simon; 4. Analysing Memoirs: Gone but Not Forgotten, Kayla Stanton; 5. A Thousand Unspoken Words: Reading Photographs of the Holocaust, Joshua Fortin Part 2: The Public Domain 6. Considering Nazi Propaganda as a Source for Studying the Holocaust, Paul R. Bartrop; 7. Using Trial Documents for Holocaust Study, Michael Dickerman; 8. Understanding Holocaust Memory Through Museums and Memorials, Abigail Winslow; 9. Using Church Documents for Holocaust Study, Michael Dickerman; 10. Contemporary Newspapers as Sources for Approaching Holocaust Study, Eve E. Grimm; 11. Using Yiddish Sources in Studying the Holocaust, Freda Hodge; 12. Researching the Holocaust in a Digital World, Rachel Tait-Ripperdan; 13. Persistence of Memory Through Artifacts, Melissa Minds VandeBurgt and Bailey Rodgers Part 3: The Popular Domain 14. Learning About the Holocaust Through Movies, Paul R. Bartrop; 15. How Holocaust Documentaries Defined Documentary Cinema, Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan; 16. Humanising the Holocaust: Literature as a Source for Studying the Holocaust, Kinsey Brown; 17. Art as a Source for Studying the Holocaust, Laura Morowitz Epilogue 18. Thinking About and Using Documents from the Perpetrators, Beth Griech-Polelle; Chronology of the Holocaust

Biography

Paul R. Bartrop is a Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, and a Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. He is the author or editor of over 30 books, including the Routledge titles The Routledge History of the Second World War (2022), The Holocaust: The Basics (2019), Genocide: The Basics (2015), Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (2011), and The Genocide Studies Reader (2009).