"The international conference "Exploring the microhistory of the Holocaust," which took place in Paris in December 2012 ... was the origin of this work"--Introduction. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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 / Christoph Kreutzmüller -- chapter 2. Pursuing escape from Vienna : the Katz family's correspondence / Melissa Jane Taylor -- chapter 3. Moving together, moving alone : the story of boys on a transport from Auschwitz to Buchenwald / Kenneth Waltzer -- chapter 4. Dehumanizing the dead : the destruction of Thessaloniki's Jewish Cemetery / Leon Saltiel -- chapter 5. Reconstructing trajectories of persecution : reflections on a prosopography of Holocaust victims / Nicolas Mariot and Claire Zalc -- chapter 6. Microhistories, microgeographies : Budapest, 1944, and scales of analysis / Tim Cole and Alberto Giordano -- part II. Face-to-face : victims and perpetrators -- chapter 7. Microhistory of the Holocaust in Poland : new sources, new trails / Jan Grabowski -- chapter 8. Jewish slave workers in the German aviation industry / Daniel Uziel -- chapter 9. The devil in microhistory : the "hunt for Jews" as a social process, 1942-1945 / Tomasz Frydel -- chapter 10. On the persistence of moral judgment : local perpetrators in Transnistria as seen by survivors and their Christian neighbors / Vladimir Solonari -- chapter 11. Defiance and protest : a comparative microhistorical reevaluation of individual Jewish responses to Nazi persecution / Wolf Gruner -- chapter 12. The murder of the Jews of Ostrów Mazowiecka in November 1939 / Markus Roth -- chapter 13. Échirolles, 7 August 1944 : a triple execution / Tal Bruttmann -- chapter 14. The beginning -- First massacres against the Jews in the Romanian Holocaust : level of decision, genocidal strategy, and killing methods regarding Dorohoi and Galaţi Pogroms, June-July, 1940 / Alexandru Muraru -- part III. The material for shifting scales : sources between testimonies and archives -- chapter 15. The Holocaust and postwar justice in Poland in three acts / Andrew Kornbluth -- chapter 16. The small and the good : microhistory through the eyes of the witness -- a case study / Hannah Pollin-Galay -- chapter 17. The witness against the archive : toward a microhistory of Christianstadt / Jeffrey Wallen.
Summary:
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. -- Provided by publisher.
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