Soviet Commemoration And Myth-Making Of The Nazi Extermination Camps: Case Studies On Treblinka, Sobibór, And Majdanek,
2023
William & Mary
Soviet Commemoration And Myth-Making Of The Nazi Extermination Camps: Case Studies On Treblinka, Sobibór, And Majdanek, Isaac Bluestein
Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal
The Nazi extermination camps of Treblinka, Sobibór, and Majdanek, all located in Eastern Europe, are understudied, underdiscussed, and undermemorialized in public and scholarly memory. In this paper, I seek to conduct case studies of these three camps, their histories, and their commemoration efforts. Ultimately, four main factors prevented these camps from achieving the solemn recognizability they deserve and from having their victims’ stories adequately told; little remains of these camps compared to concentration camps in Germany, fewer individuals survived them to emphasize their importance, the Soviet Union possessed near complete control of their study and commemoration, which allowed for them …
A United Failure: The Failure Of The United Nations, United States, And Global Community In Preventing And Responding To The 1994 Rwandan Genocide,
2022
Murray State University
A United Failure: The Failure Of The United Nations, United States, And Global Community In Preventing And Responding To The 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Josh Ratsch
Honors College Theses
The Rwandan Genocide represents a glaring failure of the global community to provide humanitarian protection to targets of ethnic violence and slaughter. The complete indifference displayed by the United Nations provided extremist Hutu leaders with an environment for killing without a threat of foreign intervention. Calls by the leader of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), Roméo Dallaire to reinforce the mission both before and during the slaughter fell upon deaf ears as UN leaders attempted to justify their inaction. Accounts from Rwandan representatives, who at the start of the genocide held a position on the UN Security …
Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History Of The World’S Greatest Hero By Roy Schwartz,
2022
Independent Scholar
Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History Of The World’S Greatest Hero By Roy Schwartz, Gabriel C. Salter
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
In Is Superman Circumcised?, Russell Schwartz provides a historical overview of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster's creation of the comic book character Superman, arguing that Siegel and Shuster's backgrounds in Jewish immigrants gives a particularly Jewish subtext to their character. Schwartz builds on this argument with a larger historical overview of American comic book publishing, showing how Judaism and Jewish-American immigrant experiences have informed that industry from its earliest days.
Round Table (Part 3): The Limits Of Lemkin,
2022
University of California, Berkeley
Round Table (Part 3): The Limits Of Lemkin, Scott Straus
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Round Table (Part 2): Reflections & Questions,
2022
University of San Diego
Round Table (Part 2): Reflections & Questions, Sarah Federman
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Critique Beyond Judgment: Exploring Testimony And Truth In The Classroom,
2022
Indiana University
Critique Beyond Judgment: Exploring Testimony And Truth In The Classroom, Sean Sidky
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
This essay offers a set of strategies for utilizing the words of survivors and of witnesses to genocide in the classroom. Including the voices of survivors and victims in our classroom conversations about genocide, its impact, representation, and the possibilities for its prevention is crucial to an ethical and wholistic pedagogy of genocide. Discussion of these events in the classroom often finds us confronting questions from students about truth, historical accuracy, authenticity, and authority. Addressing such questions requires careful framing that takes into account student assumptions and cultural discourses about memory and witnessing, as we work with students to develop …
Round Table (Part 4): The Marginal Man,
2022
Binghamton University
Round Table (Part 4): The Marginal Man, Max Pensky
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Round Table (Full Symposium): What’S Raphaël Lemkin Got To Do With Genocide Studies? A Conversation On Gender, Culture, Economics, Categorical Violence, And Colonization With Professors Sarah Federman, Dirk Moses, Max Pensky, And Scott Straus,
2022
City College of New York, CUNY
Round Table (Full Symposium): What’S Raphaël Lemkin Got To Do With Genocide Studies? A Conversation On Gender, Culture, Economics, Categorical Violence, And Colonization With Professors Sarah Federman, Dirk Moses, Max Pensky, And Scott Straus, A. Dirk Moses, Sarah Federman, Scott Straus, Max Pensky, Douglas Irvin-Erickson
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Table Of Contents,
2022
University of South Florida
Table Of Contents
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Editors' Introduction,
2022
University of South Florida
Editors' Introduction
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Round Table (Part 1): The Apex Of Biographical Intellectual History,
2022
City College of New York, CUNY
Round Table (Part 1): The Apex Of Biographical Intellectual History, A. Dirk Moses
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
In my brief commentary, I ask Douglas Irvin-Erickson, six years since his book appeared, about what comes next: namely, whether he thinks a new intellectual history of genocide needs transcend the assumption about its humanization of domestic and international affairs.
Full Issue 16.2,
2022
University of South Florida
Full Issue 16.2
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Round Table (Part 5): What’S Raphaël Lemkin Got To Do With Genocide Studies?,
2022
George Mason University
Round Table (Part 5): What’S Raphaël Lemkin Got To Do With Genocide Studies?, Douglas Irvin-Erickson
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Armenian Resistance To The Hamidian Massacres,
2022
University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy
Armenian Resistance To The Hamidian Massacres, Deborah Mayersen
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
Between 1894 and 1896, the Hamidian massacres claimed the lives of more than 100,000 Armenians in Ottoman Turkey. This article presents an exploratory analysis of Armenian resistance to the massacres. It examines the context and contours of resistance, including the strategies employed, scope and organization of resistance efforts. Evidence indicates that resistance was widespread, and Armenians adopted a diverse range of strategies in attempting self-protection. The relative powerlessness of the Armenian minority, however, meant that most attempts at resistance were overwhelmed. Additionally, resisters were often targeted for especially violent retribution. The lack of success of resistance efforts can also be …
Arts & Literature: Looking Back At The Roots Of Genocides In Ex-Belgian Africa,
2022
University of Florida
Arts & Literature: Looking Back At The Roots Of Genocides In Ex-Belgian Africa, René Lemarchand
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Gatumba Massacre, Background Essay,
2022
Clark University
Gatumba Massacre, Background Essay, Christopher Davey, Ezra Schrader, Fidele Sebahizi, Jean Paul Iranzi
Background
On August 13th 2004, 166 people were killed and 106 were wounded at the UN’s Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi. Nearly all the victims were members of the Banyamulenge community, a Congolese Tutsi ethnic group who were deliberately targeted in the attack. The massacre was carried out by the Forces Nationales pour la Liberation (FNL), a Hutu supremacist rebel group fighting in Burundi’s civil war. Understanding the Gatumba Massacre requires understanding what forced those Banyamulenge refugees to flee their homes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and why the FNL targeted them. This background essay addresses the context …
Bibliography For Charlotte Salomon Display,
2022
Chapman University
Bibliography For Charlotte Salomon Display, Ruby Blakesleay
Library Displays and Bibliographies
A bibliography created to accompany a display about Charlotte Salomon in September 2022 at the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University. This display was created in partnership with the Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library and the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education.
“I Held On At Any Price”: Victim Self-Preservation In The Sonderkommando In Auschwitz And Treblinka,
2022
Clemson University
“I Held On At Any Price”: Victim Self-Preservation In The Sonderkommando In Auschwitz And Treblinka, Jessica Christina Foster
All Theses
Many Holocaust victims have expressed uneasiness or even shame regarding the actions they took to stay alive in the death camps. These acts of self-preservation were usually humiliating and often came at the expense of their fellow victims. This comes out most clearly in the testimonies of the members of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz and Treblinka. Writers such as Filip Müller, Zalmen Gradowski, and Richard Glazar recount how they survived the lethal environment of the camp by appropriating the food, clothing, and valuables of the people murdered in the gas chambers. Although most scholars have interpreted these testimonies, and the …
Full Issue 16.1,
2022
University of South Florida
Full Issue 16.1
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
No abstract provided.
Climate In Crisis: Art And Activism At The Brooklyn Museum,
2022
Brooklyn Museum
Climate In Crisis: Art And Activism At The Brooklyn Museum, Nancy B. Rosoff
Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal
This paper explores the Brooklyn Museum’s activism-centered museum practice as exemplified by the exhibition Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas. The exhibition presents the collections of Indigenous art from North, Central, and South America through the lens of climate change and its impact on the survival of Indigenous people. The main thesis is that the current climate emergency is part of a longer history of environmental colonialism that began five hundred years ago. For millennia, Indigenous communities throughout the Americas have maintained profound and expansive relationships with the natural world. However, beginning in the 1500s, Europe’s …