Sources for Studying the Holocaust

Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. It will be of invaluable interest to readers, students and researchers of the Holocaust.

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Paul R. Bartrop is a Professor Emeritus of History at Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, and a Principal Fellow in History at the University of Melbourne. He is the author or editor of over 30 books, including the Routledge titles The Routledge History of the Second World War (2022), The Holocaust: The Basics (2019), Genocide: The Basics (2015), Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide (2011), and The Genocide Studies Reader (2009).

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Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. It will be of invaluable interest to readers, students and researchers of the Holocaust.

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Sources for Studying the Holocaust provides a pathway for readers to engage with questions about what sources can be used to study the Holocaust. It will be of invaluable interest to readers, students and researchers of the Holocaust.

Inhalt

Introduction Part 1: The Personal Domain 1. Oral History: Hearing the Voice of the Survivors; 2. Letters: An Intimate and Innocent Window into History; 3. Written Remnants of Catastrophe: Holocaust Diaries as Historical Sources; 4. Analysing Memoirs: Gone but Not Forgotten; 5. A Thousand Unspoken Words: Reading Photographs of the Holocaust Part 2: The Public Domain 6. Considering Nazi Propaganda as a Source for Studying the Holocaust; 7. Using Trial Documents for Holocaust Study; 8. Understanding Holocaust Memory Through Museums and Memorials; 9. Using Church Documents for Holocaust Study; 10. Contemporary Newspapers as Sources for Approaching Holocaust Study; 11. Using Yiddish Sources in Studying the Holocaust; 12. Researching the Holocaust in a Digital World; 13. Persistence of Memory Through Artifacts Part 3: The Popular Domain 14. Learning About the Holocaust Through Movies; 15. How Holocaust Documentaries Defined Documentary Cinema; 16. Humanising the Holocaust: Literature as a Source for Studying the Holocaust; 17. Art as a Source for Studying the Holocaust **Epilogue 18. Thinking About and Using Documents From the Perpetrators; Chronology of the Holocaust