Black Life in a Nazi Internment Camp:

The Art of Josef Nassy

Sarah Phillips Casteel

In July 1947, an exhibition of artworks created in Nazi concentration and internment camps was mounted in railway cars stationed in Brussels’s Gare du Nord. Included in the exhibition were several works by Josef Nassy, an artist from the Dutch...

May 13, 2020

Q&A: Raya Morag on the Connection Between Post-Holocaust Studies and Cambodian Perpetrator Cinema

“The book offers front-row seats to a new genre of post-Holocaust global documentary film, with innovative approaches to the study of genocide, trauma, and gender.” ~Ben Kiernan, author of The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power and Genocide in Cambodia Under...

September 20, 2019

Emil Draitser on Redemption and How the Soviet Union Attempted to Cover-Up the Holocaust

“Redemption is awash with brutal truths, rude awakenings and painful self-discoveries. Gorenstein doesn’t make it easy for his reader: His forbidding theme is the aftermath of the Holocaust — the aftershock of ‘ineluctable, planned murder’ — and his protagonist is...

December 21, 2018

Book Excerpt! Redemption by Friedrich Gorenstein (chapter 3)

Read Chapter 3 from Friedrich Gorenstein’s novel Redemption. Set in Ukraine, Redemption is a stark and powerful portrait of humanity caught up in Stalin’s police state in the aftermath of World War II. A major work bearing witness to the Holocaust in the...

December 20, 2018

Book Excerpt! Emil Draitser’s Introduction to Redemption by Friedrich Gorenstein

Today, we are featuring Emil Draitser’s introduction to Friedrich Gorenstein’s novel Redemption, a major addition to the canon of literature bearing witness to the Holocaust, translated by Andrew Bromfield and published in the Russian Library series. Enter our drawing for...

December 19, 2018

Is Friedrich Gorenstein’s Redemption a Holocaust novel?

“Set immediately after World War II in a Soviet town emerging from German occupation, Friedrich Gorenstein’s Redemption is a small masterpiece of post-Holocaust fiction.” ~ Val Vinokur, The New School This week we are featuring Redemption, by Friedrich Gorenstein and translated by Andrew...

October 10, 2012

Interview with Marianne Hirsch, Author of "The Generation of Postmemory"

The following is an interview with Marianne Hirsch, author of The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust Question: “Postmemory” – what is it? The description of your book claims that we can inherit other people’s memories,...

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