What was Jewish belonging in Central Europe, and how was it influenced by the Holocaust? This article examines the ways in which Czech Jews negotiated their bonds with Jewishness immediately before, during and after the Second World War. Building on a theoretical framework of affiliation developed by Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper, the essay…[Read more]

The conditions in transit ghetto of Theresienstadt generated in the inmates’ society a phenomenon of deliberate exchange of female sexual and social favors for food, protection, and symbolic capital. Scholars who have been analyzing sexuality of the victims in the Holocaust have so far only focused on sexual violence (including forced p…[Read more]

This study offers a transnational history of the Holocaust based on a study of a well-known Berlin Jewish family, the Veit Simons. We use this tangled family history as a point of departure for a transnational history of the Holocaust. In particular, we show how to read the links connecting the protagonists to the wider world as a means of writing…[Read more]

This article discusses the award-winning book by Otto Dov Kulka, Krajiny metropole smrti. The book, which tells of the author’s childhood experience in Nazi concentration camps, depicts a family that did not exist. Kulka wrote out his older sister and first father, possibly because their mention would point to the fact that his mother had bad an e…[Read more]

This is one of my oldest published article and I realized I don’t even have it as proofs. Here is the most recent version I found on my laptop. Der Aufsatz untersucht die Entstehung der Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung in Amsterdam im März 1941. Der späte Zeitpunkt der Errichtung einer Emigrationsinstitution, deren Ereigniskontext (Fe…[Read more]