Introduction
Sara J. Brenneis and Gina Herrmann
Prologue: Jews and Spaniards at Meeting Points of their
Histories during the Nazi Era
Haim Avni
I. Legacies of Antisemitism in Spain
1. Hero and Monster: The Place of Jews in Spain’s National
Identity
Raanan Rein and Martina L. Weisz
2. Antisemitism and Philosephardism in Spain, 1880–1945
Gonzalo Álvarez Chillida
II. Spain and the Fates of Jewish Communities
3. Spain and the Jews during the Holocaust
Jacobo Israel Garzón
4. The Franco Regime and the Jews of North Africa during World
War II
Isabelle Rohr
5. Spain: Refuge of Jews fleeing Nazism during World War II
Josep Calvet
6. Routes of the Renowned and the Nameless: Clandestine
Border-Crossing at the Pyrenees, 1939–1945
Tabea Alexa Linhard
7. Spanish Jews in Bergen-Belsen Camp, 1943–1944
Maria Fragkou
8. Beyond Duty: The Spanish Foreign Service’s Humanitarian
Response to the Holocaust
José Antonio Lisbona
III. Spanish Exiles in France
9. Spanish Republicans Exiled in France during the Second World
War: War and Resistance
Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand
10. From Internees to Liberators: Spanish Republican Exiles in
France, 1939–1945
Robert Coale
11. The Stateless Monument: Memory of the Spanish Republicans
Murdered in Mauthausen
Juan M. Calvo Gascón
IV. Spanish Republicans in Nazi Camps
12. Spanish and Catalan Women in Ravensbrück
Gina Herrmann
13. Between Compiègne and Neuengamme: Testimony and Trauma of
Spanish Prisoners in German Concentration Camps
Andrea Hepworth
14. Spain’s Mauthausen: Narratives of the Nazi Deportation of
Spanish Republicans, 1946–2015
Sara J. Brenneis
15. Joaquim Amat-Piniella’s Novel K.L. Reich: The Deported
Gaze
Marta Marín-Dòmine
16. Jorge Semprún and the Holocaust
Soledad Fox Maura
17. Montserrat Roig and her Contribution to the Memory of the
Republican Deportation
Rosa Toran
V. Propaganda
18. Francoist Antisemitic Propaganda, 1939–1945
Javier Domínguez Arribas
19. The Catholic Church and the Jews in Franco’s Spain during
the Holocaust, 1939–1945
Graciela Ben-Dror
20. The Politics of Survival: Madrid’s Pro-Jewish Propaganda and
the Canonization of Francisco Franco as Benefactor of Jews
Pedro Correa Martín-Arroyo
21. Tainted Visions of War: Antisemitic German Propaganda in
Spain
Mercedes Peñalba-Sotorrío
22. A Touch of Nazi Sophistication: The Promotion of Spanish
Culture in Wartime Germany
Marició Janué i Miret
VI. The Blue Division
23. The Blue Division and the National Question in the Occupied
Territory of Russia, 1941–1943
Boris Kovalev
24. Representations of the Blue Division in Memoir and
Fiction
Macarena Tejada López
VII. Nazis in Spain
25. Spain’s Neutral Holocaust: Memories of the Axis Alliance in
Francoist and Post-Franco Spain, or “The Wonderful, Horrible Life
of Otto Skorzeny”
Joshua Goode
26. Nazis, Real and Imagined, in Post-World War II Spain
David Messenger
VIII. The Holocaust in Contemporary Spanish and Ladino Culture
27. Memory and the Ethical Imagination: The Holocaust and
Deportation to Mauthausen in Twenty-first Century Spanish
Theater
Marilén Loyola
28. Audiovisual Production on the Republican Deportation and
Spain as Haven of the Nazis
Isabel Estrada
29. With Sepharad as a Void: Recent Reckoning with the Holocaust
in Spanish Fiction
Stacy N. Beckwith
30. “Only Writing Matters”: Anne Frank in/and Spanish Holocaust
Poetry, 1966–2004
Paul Cahill
31. The Words that Replace the Elusive Past: Some Recent Ladino
Poetic Responses to the Holocaust
Shmuel Refael
32. Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust in Spain
Marta Simó
IX. Afterlives: Holocaust Appropriations in Spain
33. Between “No Pasarán” and “Nunca Más”: The Holocaust and the
Revisiting of Spain’s Legacy of Mass Violence
Alejandro Baer and Natan Sznaider
Contributor Biographies
Bibliography
List of Archives
Index
Sara J. Brenneis is a professor of Spanish at Amherst College in
Massachusetts.
Gina Herrmann is the Norman H. Brown associate professor of Spanish
at the University of Oregon.
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