Holocaust Studies

Lower, Wendy

doi:10.1002/9781118936894.ch34

A Companion to Nazi Germany 2018

DOI: 10.1002/9781118936894.ch34

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Holocaust Studies

Wendy Lower¹

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“…13 For the pioneering work of cultural anthropologists on 'experience': Bruner (1986). 14 For a recent survey of regional Holocaust studies: Lower (2018). For pioneering research into Nazi plans for the racial reordering of eastern Europe: Aly & Heim (1993); Roth (1993).…”

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Lived experience and the Holocaust: spaces, senses and emotions in Auschwitz

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2021

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This article examines lived experience during the Holocaust, focusing on Auschwitz, the most lethal Nazi concentration camp. It draws on spatial history, as well as the history of senses and emotions, to explore subjective being in Auschwitz. The article suggests that a more explicit engagement with individual spaces�prisoner bunks, barracks, latrines, crematoria, construction sites, SS offices�and their emotional and sensory dimension, can reveal elements of lived experience that have remained peripheral on the edges of historical visibility. Such an approach can deepen understanding of Auschwitz, by making the camp more recognisable and by contributing to wider historiographical debates about the nature of Nazi terror.

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Confronting the Communal Grave: A Reassessment of Social Relations During the Holocaust in Eastern Europe

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2019

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This historiographical review focuses on the complex interactions between Nazi Germany, local populations, and east European Jews during the Holocaust. Braving fierce historical revisionism in eastern Europe and the Baltic states, recent studies have shifted the spotlight from Germans to Poles, Ukrainians, Russians, Lithuanians, and other ethnicities. As a result, the analytic categories with which most historians still work – notably ‘perpetrator/victim/bystander’ and ‘collaboration/resistance’ – have outlived their usefulness. A more complex picture of the Nazi-occupied territories in eastern Europe has emerged and now awaits new theoretical frameworks. This article argues that past paradigms blinded scholars to a range of groups lost in the cracks and to behaviours remaining outside the political sphere. Through four criteria that shed light on the social history of the Holocaust in eastern Europe, it draws connections between central and east European, German, Jewish, and Soviet histories, in order to engage with other fields and disciplines that examine modern mass violence and genocide. As Holocaust studies stands at a crossroads, only a transnational history including all ethnicities and deeper continuities, both temporal and geographical, will enhance our knowledge of how social relations shaped the very evolution of the Holocaust.

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Holocaust Studies

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Lived experience and the Holocaust: spaces, senses and emotions in Auschwitz

Lived experience and the Holocaust: spaces, senses and emotions in Auschwitz

Confronting the Communal Grave: A Reassessment of Social Relations During the Holocaust in Eastern Europe

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