The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory

Natalia Aleksiun is the Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research focuses on the history of East European Jewry, Polish-Jewish relations, and the Holocaust. She is the author of Conscious History: Polish Jewish Historians before the Holocaust. She has also edited numerous collections on the history of Polish Jews and the Holocaust including Polin, vol. 29: "Writing Jewish History in Eastern Europe," and European Holocaust Studies, vol. 3: "Places, Spaces and Voids in the Holocaust." Raphael Utz is a historian of Eastern Europe at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin, specializing in the history of the German occupation of Europe in the Second World War and in Holocaust aftermath studies. He is the author of Rußlands unbrauchbare Vergangenheit and editor of The Russian Revolution of 1905 in Transcultural Perspective and Orte der Shoah in Polen. Zofia Wóycicka is assistant professor at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw specializing in memory and museum studies. She is the author of Arrested Mourning: Memory of the Nazi Camps in Poland, 1944–1950 and coeditor of Memory Studies, vol. 15, no. 6: "Mnemonic Wars: New Constellations." She has also published numerous articles in handbooks, edited volumes, and peer-reviewed journals including History & Memory, Memory Studies, and Holocaust Studies. Contributors Include: Sofie Lene Bak, Anna Bikont, Anna Marie Droumpouki, Sarah Gensburger, Ido de Haan, Liliana Hentosh, Hana Kubátová, Mark Roseman, Naum Trajanovski, Anika Walke