Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction

Part I Writing Atrocity
1. Historical Uniqueness and Integrated History
2. Eastern Europe as the Site of Genocide

Part II Local History
3. Reconstructing Genocide on the Local Level
4. Testimonies as Historical Documents

Part III Justice and Denial
5. The Holocaust in the Courtroom
6. Memory Laws as a Tool of Forgetting

Part IV First Person Histories
7. H. G. Adler’s (Un)Bildungsroman
8. Leaving the Shtetl to Change the World

Part V When Memory Comes
9. Return and Displacement in Israel-Palestine
10. My Twisted Path to Auschwitz, and Back
11. Building a Future by Telling the Past

Bibliography
Index

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A multifaceted exploration of the Holocaust which connects its relationship with genocide, the importance of first-person histories of atrocity, and links to the 1948 Palestinian Nakba together in unprecedented fashion.

About the Author

Omer Bartov is John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University, USA. He has written and edited numerous books, including Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (2011) and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), which won several prizes and has been translated into several languages.