Microhistories of the Holocaust / / ed. by Claire Zalc, Tal Bruttmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Bruttmann, Tal,; Cole, Tim,; Frydel, Tomasz,; Giordano, Alberto,; Grabowski, Jan,; Gruner, Wolf,; Kornbluth, Andrew,; Kreutzmüller, Christoph,; Mariot, Nicolas,; Muraru, Alexandru,; Pollin-Galay, Hannah,; Roth, Markus,; Saltiel, Leon,; Solonari, Vladimir,; Taylor, Melissa Jane,; Uziel, Daniel,; Wallen, Jeffrey,; Waltzer, Kenneth,; Zalc, Claire,
• HerausgeberIn: Bruttmann, Tal,; Zalc, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 24
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe’s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A MICROHISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST -- PART I BIOGRAPHIES, GROUPS, TRANSPORTS, GHETTOS: THE SCALES OF ANALYSIS -- CHAPTER 1 AN INCONCEIVABLE EMIGRATION: RICHARD FRANK’S FLIGHT FROM GERMANY TO SWITZERLAND IN 1942 -- CHAPTER 2 PURSUING ESCAPE FROM VIENNA: THE KATZ FAMILY’S CORRESPONDENCE -- CHAPTER 3 MOVING TOGETHER, MOVING ALONE: THE STORY OF BOYS ON A TRANSPORT FROM AUSCHWITZ TO BUCHENWALD -- CHAPTER 4 DEHUMANIZING THE DEAD: THE DESTRUCTION OF THESSALONIKI’S JEWISH CEMETERY -- CHAPTER 5 RECONSTRUCTING TRAJECTORIES OF PERSECUTION: REFLECTIONS ON A PROSOPOGRAPHY OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS -- CHAPTER 6 MICROHISTORIES, MICROGEOGRAPHIES: BUDAPEST, 1944, AND SCALES OF ANALYSIS -- PART II FACE-TO-FACE: VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS -- CHAPTER 7 MICROHISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST IN POLAND: NEW SOURCES, NEW TRAILS -- CHAPTER 8 JEWISH SLAVE WORKERS IN THE GERMAN AVIATION INDUSTRY -- CHAPTER 9 THE DEVIL IN MICROHISTORY: THE “HUNT FOR JEWS” AS A SOCIAL PROCESS, 1942–1945 -- CHAPTER 10 ON THE PERSISTENCE OF MORAL JUDGMENT: LOCAL PERPETRATORS IN TRANSNISTRIA AS SEEN BY SURVIVORS AND THEIR CHRISTIAN NEIGHBORS -- CHAPTER 11 DEFIANCE AND PROTEST: A COMPARATIVE MICROHISTORICAL REEVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL JEWISH RESPONSES TO NAZI PERSECUTION -- CHAPTER 12 THE MURDER OF THE JEWS OF OSTRÓW MAZOWIECKA IN NOVEMBER 1939 -- CHAPTER 13 ÉCHIROLLES, 7 AUGUST 1944 A TRIPLE EXECUTION -- CHAPTER 14 THE BEGINNING— FIRST MASSACRES AGAINST THE JEWS IN THE ROMANIAN HOLOCAUST: LEVEL OF DECISION, GENOCIDAL STRATEGY, AND KILLING METHODS REGARDING THE DOROHOI AND GALAT, I POGROMS, JUNE–JULY, 1940 -- PART III THE MATERIAL FOR SHIFTING SCALES: SOURCES BETWEEN TESTIMONIES AND ARCHIVES -- CHAPTER 15 THE HOLOCAUST AND POSTWAR JUSTICE IN POLAND IN THREE ACTS -- CHAPTER 16 THE SMALL AND THE GOOD: MICROHISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WITNESS—A CASE STUDY -- CHAPTER 17 THE WITNESS AGAINST THE ARCHIVE: TOWARD A MICROHISTORY OF CHRISTIANSTADT -- Index