Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State
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The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Through the prism of Holocaust memory, this book examines South African Jewry and its ambivalent position as a minority within the privileged white minority. Grounded in research in over a dozen archives, the book provides a rich empirical account of the centrality of Holocaust memorialization to the community's ongoing struggle against global and local antisemitism. Most of the chapters focus on white perceptions of the Holocaust and reveals the tensions between the white communities in the country regarding the place of collective memories of suffering in the public arena. However, the book also moves beyond an insular focus on the South African Jewish community and in very different modality investigates prominent figures in the anti-apartheid struggle and the role of Holocaust memory in their fascinating journeys towards freedom.
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- Intro
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Holocaust Memory in Apartheid South Africa
- Chapter 1 Nazism, Afrikaner Nationalism and the 'Jewish Question'
- Chapter 2 Memory Engraved in Stone
- Chapter 3 The Holocaust on Trial - Eichmann in Pretoria
- Chapter 4 Censoring the Holocaust under Apartheid
- Chapter 5 Anne Frank in South Africa - Between the Communal and the National
- Chapter 6 Holocaust Memory in the Lexicon of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
- Chapter 7 Holocaust Memory in Ahmed Kathrada's Struggle against Apartheid
- Conclusion: On the Role of Analogies
- Archives
- Bibliography
- Index
