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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Holocaust and Genocide Studies"”.
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“He Denieth None That Come Unto Him” The Mormon-Jewish Relationship During The Holocaust And World War Ii
… Saints of Jesus Christ stumbled into fruition and global recognition after decades of oppression and resistance from its contemporaries. Despite its rocky beginnings, the Church’s membership remained largely friendly to anyone who expressed interest in their gospel. Among those whom they shared …
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“An Entirely New and Utterly Horrifying Reality”: Jews’ Perceptions of and Reactions to the Kovno Pogroms, June 22–July 6, 1941
… a roughly two-week period, between June 22 and July 6, 1941, during which Jews in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, became the primary targets of attacks by local Lithuanians in the midst of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. An analysis of eyewitness accounts reveals that, in comparison to …
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The SS: The Phony Elite and Brutal Preparators of the Holocaust
… elite forces, the most ideologically committed and advanced version of the New Nazi man. This work demonstrates as the war progressed, the SS came to rely more heavily on those who were not elite but rather of dubious, criminal, and poorly educated backgrounds. Thus, this work argues that the …
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Interactions of War: Exhibiting World War II and the Holocaust
… with difficult subject matter, such as war or genocide. This research involves interviews with museum personnel at the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia, the National Infantry Museum in Columbus, Georgia, the Museum of History and Holocaust Education in Kennesaw, Georgia, and the World War …
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From the Battlefield to the Archive: Tracing Testimony in Holocaust Memory
… in shaping public memory of World War II and the Holocaust. As the last generation of eyewitnesses passes, societies increasingly rely on preserved, mediated forms of testimony to understand and remember traumatic pasts. Testimony, whether handwritten, oral, visual, or digital, is not a …
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In a hell of our own creation: Spatial context and the Wehrmacht’s genocidal war in Eastern Europe, 1941–1943
… multitude of social, ideological, psychological, and environmental factors encouraged German servicemen to willingly commit atrocities in Eastern Europe during the Second World War. How should historians contextualize which factors held greater influence over servicemen deployed to different …
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Survivor’s Guilt and the Ethics of Remembering in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Slave and Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl”
… focus of this thesis is an analysis of post-Holocaust Jewish-American literature with a specific emphasis on texts set in Europe. In particular, I examine how Jewish-American authors who lived in the United States during the Holocaust address issues of trauma and survivor’s guilt through …
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
… to answer one central question: How can the life and work of Ernst Jünger help illuminate the development of fascist ideas, culture, politics, and power across Europe from 1920-1945? The components of that question are: what were the core elements of Jünger’s aesthetics, morality, and politics? …
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(Re)Presenting Eichmann: One Man, Many Murders
… was an interpretation by director Leo Hurwitz, and that at the time it was recorded, and since then, the material has been used by different actors for different purposes. I examined the use made of that material by six individuals/countries: Leo Hurwitz, the accused, director Eyal Sivan, …
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BRICK
<p><em>Brick </em>is a collection of lineated and prose poetry that explores the role of transfemininity in Western imperial history and imagination. The text engages with themes of sisterhood, trauma, and ideology through the lens of transfeminism as they relate to history, family, and the state. …
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I Was Looking for God: A Study of Wehrmacht Personnel and their Personal Relationships with Religion
… in the field during World War II. Its brutality and discriminatory practices rivaled that of the Nazi paramilitary and police units dispatched alongside them in newly conquered areas during this conflict. Coming from a society that was not at all unfamiliar with Christianity, some within the …