Khiterer, Victoria. The Holocaust: memories and history. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. Main Argument: The Holocaust: memories and history is a collection of seventeen articles about the holocaust and analyzing photos, literature, and films. Victoria Khiterer and two students go through these essays and documents to relive the holocaust and not let people of today forget about the horrors and the traumatization that the people went through in the concentration camps from the lies told about the gas chambers to teaching methods of how to get students and other people the real version of the holocaust. Relevant Historiography: Bloxham, Donald. Genocide on trial: War Crimes Trials and the Formation of Holocaust: History …show more content…
Judith Kaplan–Weinger and Yonit Hoffman essay Testimonies of Jewish Holocaust Survivors: Characterizing the Narratives of Resistance and Resilience the narrative testimonies of survivors who engaged in organized resistance activities and those who did not. Eric D. Miller’s essay The Double–Edged Sword of Remembering the Holocaust: The Case of Jewish Self–Identity shows that memories about the Holocaust shaped the self–identity and consciousness not only of the Holocaust survivors, but all Jewish people. Jacqueline Cherepinsky’s paper Babi Yar: The Absence of the Babi Yar Massacre from Popular Memory discusses why the memory of one of the largest massacres of Jews during the Holocaust is absent from the public consciousness. She explains that because of state anti–Semitism Soviet authorities intentionally erased all traces of the Holocaust from the collective …show more content…
Maxim D. Shrayer analyzes in his essay Lev Ozerov as a Literary Witness to the Shoah in the Occupied Soviet Territories the poem Babi Yar by Lev Ozerov. Ozerov visited his native Kiev after its liberation in November 1943. Based on eyewitness testimonies about the massacre in Babi Yar John and Carol Garrard discuss the Holocaust theme in Grossman’s novel Life and Fate in their essay Art from Agony: Vasily Grossman and the Holocaust. The Garrards show that Grossman’s depiction of the Holocaust in his novel Life and Fate is based upon historical fact and the personal tragedy of the author. Victoria Khiterer’s essay The Life and Fate of Soviet Jews in Aleksandr Galich’s Play “Matrosskaia Tishina” and the Film “Papa” discusses how the play and film represent important processes of Jewish life in the Soviet Union in the late 1920s – mid 1950s, including assimilation, the Holocaust and the Jewish national