Lessons and Legacies XV

Erin McGlothlin is a professor of German and Jewish studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Avinoam Patt is the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut.

Introduction, Erin McGlothlin and Avinoam Patt

I. Wartime History
Natalie Eppelsheimer, "Some Had a Farm in Africa: Holocaust Survivors as Settler-Colonists in Kenya
Daniela Gleizer, “Refugees from Nazism and Holocaust Survivors in Mexico: Closed Doors and Contested Memories
Elysa I. McConnell, “Building the Nation at the Periphery: Fascism, Italianization, and Racial Persecution in Italy’s Eastern Borderlands
Jason Tingler, “A Vortex of Violence: Chełm at the Crossroads of Genocide and Mass Murder
Idit Gil, “Ethics and Friendship in KZ Hessental: Josek Giser’s Diary and His Survival Efforts”


II. Literature and Testimony from the Postwar to the Contemporary
Ariane Santerre, “Transgressive Testimonies: French Survivors’ Early Writings on the Holocaust
Naya Lekht, “Literary Monuments: Commemorating the Holocaust in the Soviet Union
Jonathan Druker, “Monstrous Births and Mad Scientists: Allegories of Holocaust Trauma in Primo Levi’s Natural Histories
Joanna Krongold, “‘Too Much Precedent’: Holocaust Allegory in Suzanne Collins’s Underland Chronicles”


III. Museums and Memorials
Anja Ballis, “Tour Guide Meets Tourist: Local and Global Perspectives of Guided Tours at European Concentration Camp Memorial Sites
Sarah Kleinmann, “The Museum Representation of National Socialist Perpetrators in Germany and Austria
Laurie A. Stein, “The State of Provenance Research in Museums: Evaluating Global and National Approaches and Responses
Anna Duensing, “We Should Have Had a Nuremberg after the Civil War”: Understanding Nazism at the Frontlines of the Battle Over Confederate Monuments
Dan Leopard and Noah Shenker, "Pinchas-DiT: Simulation and the Imagined Future of Holocaust Survivor Memory”
Notes on Contributors