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“The Holocaust Is German Family History”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 12 April 2012 by delclem

“German historian Moritz Pfeiffer asked his granddad what he did in World War II, and then fact-checked the testimony. His findings in a new book shed light on a dying generation that remains outwardly unrepentant, but is increasingly willing to break decades of silence on how, and why, it followed Hitler.”

> Article & photo abum (c) DER SPIEGEL, 2012

> The notion of cultural memory (c) Goethe Institut

PS. On the problematic function of family memroy, also see
> Harald Welzer, Grandpa wasn’t a Nazi (c) AJC

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“The Suffering Olympics”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 2 February 2012 by delclem

“The ‘double genocide’ wars that pit Stalin’s crimes against Hitler’s are raging in wide swathes of Europe and every now and again along comes a gust from the past to stoke them.” Commentary by Robert Cohen (c) NYT, 2012; illustration by Gianpaolo Pagni.

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The British Schindler

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 27 January 2012 by delclem

“In 1938, twenty-nine-year-old Sir Nicholas Winton was preparing to take a vacation when he received a call from a friend who told him that he was leaving for Prague and needed his help. (…) Winton decided to take action and by September 1939, he managed to arrange visas and admission to British families for nearly 700 Central European mostly Jewish children. (…) Fifty years later, his wife found a scrapbook full of documents and transport plans….

Joe Schlesinger, a CBC reporter and one of the rescued children, is the guide in the documentary who presents not only how Winton’s act changed his life, but also how it continues to influence the lives of thousands of others worldwide.”

(on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day 2012)

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Here, There Is a Why

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , on 21 November 2011 by delclem

Article on Primo Levi, Humanist, by Carlin Romano

(c) The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011

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Meta-Maus

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 10 October 2011 by delclem

“When cartoonist Art Spiegelman published his epic Holocaust graphic novel, Maus, 25 years ago, a lot changed. He received a special Pulitzer Prize and became a contributor and cover artist for the New Yorker.

Maus blends the stories of Spiegelman’s trying relationship with his father and a horrifying tale of Auschwitz, as seen through his father’s eyes. Spiegelman drew the Jews as mice and the Germans as cats. But Maus has continued to haunt him.

MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus is the story behind Spiegelman’s signature work, complete with interviews, answers to many persistent questions and examples of his early drawings.”

>> SOUND FILE & ARTICLE (c) npr, 2011

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Material culture: Terezín

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 6 August 2011 by delclem

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Places like Theresienstadt (above) or Auschwitz show how connected the Habsburg heritage and the Nazi era are in Central Europe. In some cases, like in Western Ukraine (Galicia), the Austro-Hungarian past even seems to be the prehistory of genocide.

Photos (c) Ruthner, 2011

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Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 31 July 2011 by delclem

An article by the historian Timothy Snyder (Yale University)
who published the controversial & thought-provoking book Bloodlands recently

(c) NYR, 2011

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Ukrainian ‘genocide envy’?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 24 April 2011 by delclem

The heated debate about the Canadian Human Rights Museum in Winnipeg and its representation of Holocaust and “Holomodor”: Ukrainian organizations in conflict with international scholars (see the open letter by the latter and an article in The Globe & Mail on the subject matter)

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