Examines the devastating influence of Nazism on the lives of the children of Europe, who were confronted with euthanasia, racist education, eugenics, forced relocation, homelessness, poverty, trauma, and starvation.
Nechama Tec's Defiance, an account of a Jewish partisan unit that fought the Nazis in the Polish forests during World War II, was turned into a major feature film. Yet despite the attention this film brought to the topic of Jewish resistance, Tec, who speaks widely about the Hol…
In this careful study of Jewish and non-Jewish resistance during World War II, Holocaust scholar Tec Nechama argues that Jews were not passive or submissive in the face of German oppression, but that their efforts had different aims and expressions than those of their non-Jewish…
Reflects on the Europeanization of Holocaust memory, i.e. the formation of a common European memory of the Holocaust, using six films as a case study: the German-French-Polish co-production "Europa, Europa" by Agnieszka Holland; the German films "Aimée and Jaguar" by Max Färberb…
"From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in…
"From mass murder to genocide, slavery to colonial suppression, acts of atrocity have lives that extend far beyond the horrific moment. They engender trauma that echoes for generations, in the experiences of those on both sides of the act. Gabriele Schwab reads these legacies in…