The Routledge Handbook to Auschwitz-Birkenau

Introduction
Sarah Cushman, Joanne Pettitt and Dominic Williams

Section 1: Placing Auschwitz

1. Auschwitz and the SS Concentration Camp System
Nikolaus Wachsmann

2. Mapping Auschwitz
Tim Cole

3. Thinking Auschwitz Spatially
Richard Carter-White, Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca

4. The Auschwitz Environment
Jacek Małczyński

5. Auschwitz and Its Locale
Thomas Van de Putte

Section 2: Prisoner Groups

6. O Drom o Rromano k’o Aušvic (The Romani Road to Auschwitz)
Ian Hancock

7. The Theresienstadt Family Camp in Auschwitz
Anna Hájková

8. Prisoner of War Camp Auschwitz
Rolf Keller and Reinhard Otto

9. Children in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Verena Buser

10. The Auschwitz Sonderkommando
Dominic Williams

Section 3: Experiences of Community and Suffering

11. Food and Hunger at Auschwitz
Lisa Pine

12. The “Muselmann” in Auschwitz
Sharon B. Oster

13. Music Making as Community Formation in Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Case of Krystyna Żywulska
Barbara Milewski

14. Torah and Mitzvahs in Hell: Jewish Religious Activity in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Avraham (Alan) Rosen

Section 4: Perpetrators and Collaborators

15. Auschwitz and Its Imagery
Tal Bruttmann, Stefan Hördler and Christoph Kreutzmüller

16. SS Affiliated Women in Auschwitz
Sarah Cushman

17. Civilian Workers on Site
Peter Hayes

18. The First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, 1963–1965
Peter Davies

Section 5: Representing Auschwitz

19. Auschwitz and Fiction
Sue Vice

20. Seeing Auschwitz: The Nazi Gaze in Auschwitz Perpetrator Fiction
Joanne Pettitt

21. “Auschwitz Still Lives and Breathes in Me”: Auschwitz-Birkenau in Romani Writing
Marianne Zwicker

22. Images of Auschwitz in Graphic Novels
Victoria Aarons

23. Filming Auschwitz
Gerd Bayer

Section 6: Key Figures in Cultural Memory

24. Hermann Langbein: Remembering as Political Practice
Katharina Stengel

25. Charlotte Delbo
Nicholas Chare

26. Arriving at Auschwitz with Elie Wiesel
Erin McGlothlin

27. Born of Fire: Yehiel Dinur (Ka-Tzetnik)’s Literary Testimony to Auschwitz
Iris Milner

28. Primo Levi: The Duty of Testimony
Judith Woolf

Section 7: Global Auschwitz

29. The Meaning of the Barbed Wire: Auschwitz’s Place and Holocaust Memory in Brazil
Bárbara Deoti, Anna Carolina Viana and Maria Visconti

30. Translating and Writing Auschwitz into Chinese Literature
Yu Wang

31. Polish Perceptions of Auschwitz
Marek Kucia, Maciej Koniewski, Katarzyna Stec, Marta Duch-Dyngosz and Sylwia Sadlik

32. Representing Horror: Auschwitz-Birkenau‏ in Israeli Documentary Cinema
Liat Steir-Livny

Section 8: Postwar Reflections and Engagements

33. Auschwitz as a Political-Philosophical Problem
Javier Burdman

34. "We Remind People Daily. Again and Again": The Role(s) of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum’s Social Media
Imogen Dalziel

35. Tourism at Auschwitz
Daniel P. Reynolds

Biography

Sarah Cushman is Lecturer in History and Director of the Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University, USA. She has written several articles about women and the women’s section in Auschwitz-Birkenau and is co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of History and Culture.

Joanne Pettitt is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, UK. She is Secretary of the British and Irish Association for Holocaust Studies and co-Editor-in-Chief of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History.

Dominic Williams is Assistant Professor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Northumbria University, UK. He is the co-author and co-editor of Matters of Testimony (2015), The Auschwitz Sonderkommando (2019) and Testimonies of Resistance (2019), and co-editor of The Clinical Witness (2025)