Britain and the Holocaust : remembering and representing war and genocide / edited by Caroline Sharples and Olaf Jensen.

Date:
2015
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Physical description

xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-231) and index.

Contents

Part I : Confronting the Holocaust. 'No one believed what we had seen' : British soldiers who witnessed mass murder in Auschwitz / Duncan Little -- Holocaust on trial : mass observation and British media responses to the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945-1946 / Caroline Sharples -- Loose connections? : Britain and the Final Solution / Tony Kushner -- Part II : The Holocaust on screen. 'Marvellous raisins in a badly-cooked cake' : British reactions to the screening of Holocaust / Tim Cole -- 'And the trouble is where to begin to spring surprises on you. Perhaps a place you might least like to remember' : This Is Your Life and the BBC's images of the Holocaust in the twenty years before Holocaust / James Jordan -- The Holocaust in British television and film : a look over the fence / Olaf Jensen -- Part III : The Holocaust in exhibitions. Holocaust art at the Imperial War Museum, 1945-2009 / Antoine Capet -- Holocaust memory and contemporary atrocities : the Imperial War Museum's Holocaust Exhibition and Crimes Against Humanity Exhibition / Rebecca Jinks -- The Holocaust and colonial genocide at the Imperial War Museum / Tom Lawson -- Part IV : Commemorating the Holocaust. We should do something for the fiftieth : remembering Auschwitz, Belsen and the Holocaust in Britain in 1995 / Mark Donnelly -- Britain's Holocaust Memorial Day : inculcating British or European Holocaust consciousness? / Andy Pearce -- From Stockholm to Stockton : the Holocaust and/as heritage in Britain / Dan Stone.

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  • 9781349468560
  • 1349468568