Burning Memory
Times of Testing and Reckoning
Published on 1. December 1993
Book
Hardback
350 pages
978-0-08-041931-2 (ISBN)
Description
Approaches the devastating events of 1933-1945 from the dual perspectives of some of those who lived through and survived the Nazis' wholesale murder of Europe's Jews and of some who recognize the need to remember that time and teach others to remember. Themes considered include: the early stages of oppression that received neither sufficient attention nor appropriate response from free nations; the apin of remembering together with the need to remember both the Nazi onslaught and preceding happier times; how the rescuer demonstrated extraordinary behaviour; the cost of not remembering; the continuing need to recognize how the Gypsies were also targeted; and the ongoing challenge with which the "burning ground" of the Holocaust faces Christians.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
291 references, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-08-041931-2 (9780080419312)
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Content
Introduction: memory - blessing, burden or curse?, the Shoah as burning memory, A.L. Eckhardt. Part 1 1938 - a crucial turning and testing: "no real racial problems" - Australia, refugees, and the Evian Conference, 1938, P. Bartrop; the Kristallnacht in Holocaust context - between burning books (1933) and burning bodies (1943), H.R. Huttenbach; the pogrom of Kristallnacht in Christian context, A.L. Eckardt. Part 2 How did we and they respond?: foundations for orthodox Jewish theological response to the Holocaust - 1936-1939, G. Greenberg; Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian leadership in a time of testing, F.H. Littell; how did we survive?, N. Tec. Part 3 The response of the rescuers: the rescue of Jewish children in Poland and the Netherlands, M. Paldiel; the Italians' role in the rescue of Jews, S. Zuccotti; the Dutch dimension of Jewish rescue, L. Baron. Part 4 The pang and pain of memory: a handful of memories - two levels of recollection, F.W. Aaron; the survivors' return - reflections on memory and place, K.A. Plank; "ist dies mein Land?" - memoirs of German women, S.L. Pentlin. Part 5 The cost of remembering and not remembering: the 8th of May - 1945 and the years after, R. Bethge; Catholics and Jews in Poland today, I. Irwin-Zarecka; Waldheim, the Pope and the Holocaust, R.L. Rubernstein. Part 6 Further reckonings: Holocauset history and the gypsies, G. Tyrnauer; Christians and Jews in Germany today, and Bonhoeffer's sustaining legacy, E. Bethge; Black protestantism and antisemitism, H.G. Locke.