This essay argues that an examination of comedy in the USA reveals the extent to which collective memory of the Holocaust evolved during the 20th and early 21st centuries. Using sources taken from the domain of mainstream American comedy since the 1930s, the analysis evidences how, following an initial reluctance to represent the genocide within…[Read more]

Teaching the Holocaust in School. Greek particularities. The Why

In July 1944, the Red Army was advancing through Eastern Poland when they discovered the first traces of the camps. On reaching Lublin they found an enormous compound behind barbed wire in the city’s suburb of Majdanek. Embedded with the Soviet army were film crews, who made the first images of a Nazi camp, among them the “flight survivors” Olga a…[Read more]

This article is a first original exploration of queer Holocaust history, that is same sex desire between Jews who had been deported to ghettos and concentration camps. The prisoner society in the Nazi camps was characterized by wide-reaching homophobia which used construction of sexual deviance as a tool of othering. It brought about…[Read more]

This short piece reviews Michael Kater’s recent overview of culture in Nazi Germany, taking issue both with its core scholarly contentions and its problematic use of language.

The remote location of Beshankovichy’s mass grave for Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide reflects the exclusion of local Jews during the German occupation of Soviet territories and limits their memory to a few knowledgeable survivors and witnesses. In contrast, local commemorative practices focus on memorials for Soviet soldiers, partisans, and…[Read more]

How did Soviet Jews respond to the Holocaust and the devastating transformations that accompanied persecution? How was the Holocaust experienced, survived, and remembered by Jewish youth living in Soviet territory? Anika Walke, Assistant Professor of History at Washington University in St. Louis, examines these important questions in Pioneers and…[Read more]

Historians have tended to suggest that Britain’s colonial officials demonstrated an esprit de corps, and that this is testament to the efficacy of public schooling in generating social cohesion. Examining Britain’s officials in seven different colonies in sub‐Saharan Africa, this article will argue that differences in working conditions, a…[Read more]

How should we remember historical moments of violence and loss? What are the links between terrible events like the Holocaust, the mass casualties of World War I, the Armenian Genocide, and crises around the world today? What challenges do historians face as they examine and interpret death and war?

Anika Walke and Jay Winter both face such…[Read more]

A twenty minute paper presented to the conference ‘The Royal Navy and the Atlantic World Conference’ organised by the University of Southampton and the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Portsmouth, on 19 June 2014.

This article re-examines the declining influence of Jamaican sugar planters within the British Empire during the period between the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775 and Parliament’s decision to abolish the slave trade in 1807. Much of the existing scholarship emphasises the consequences of the American Revolutionary War and rise of a…[Read more]

This article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns,…[Read more]

This article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns,…[Read more]

This article is about the wealth and material culture of the Jamaican elite during the age of abolition. The planter class had a huge material investment in plantation slavery, and wealth derived from this allowed it to live ostentatiously and to consume conspicuously. Those who did not migrate away from Jamaica were drawn towards colonial towns,…[Read more]

Ghettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more]

Ghettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more]

Ghettoized Languages: Theresienstadt as Czech-German ‘Coerced Community’
(referring to Adler’s book “Theresienstadt 1941-1945; The Face of a Coerced Community”)
1. Theresienstadts Festungen: Von der josephinischen Architektur zum Militärgefängnis und nationalsozialistischen „Ghetto“
2. Nationen im „Ghetto”
3. Zum Begriff der „Zwangsgemein…[Read more]