The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century : Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age / edited and with an introduction by Tim Cole and Simone Gigliotti

Introduction: The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age, Tim Cole and Simone GigliottiPart I. Tropes Reconsidered 1. Re-imagining the 'gray zone': Female Prisoner Functionaries in the Gross-Rosen Subcamps, 1944-45, Andrea Rudorff 2. The Muselmann Liberated: Impossible Holocaust Metaphors in Survivor Memoirs and Photography, Sharon B. Oster 3. Absent Presence, Pathological Afterimages, and the Aesthetics of Excrement, Holli Levitsky 4. When one door closes, another opens: The Demjanjuk Trials in Israel (1986-1993) and in Germany (2009-2011), Yehudit Dori-DestonPart II. Survival Strategies and Obstructions 5. The Geographies of Living Underground: Escape Routes and Hiding Spaces of Fugitive Jews in the Bavarian Countryside, 1939-1945, Susanna Schrafstetter 6. Bella Hazan Ya`ari: A Member of the Jewish Resistance in Pursuit of Self and a Future, Dalia Ofer 7. Migration Narratives of Holocaust Survivors in Chile, Colombia and Mexico, Lorena Avila, Nancy Nicholls, and Yael SimanPart III. Digital Methods, Digital Memory 8. A Different Approach to Microhistory: The Arrests of the Jews of the Vaucluse as Seen through Quantitative Prosopography, Adrien Dallaire 9. Mind the Gap: Reading Across the Holocaust Testimonial Archive, Anne Kelly Knowles, Paul B. Jaskot, Tim Cole, and Alberto Giordano 10. When the Index is Wrong: Exploring Black Holes in Victim Memory, Hannah Pollin-Galay 11. People, Places, Things: Considering the Role of Visitor Photography at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum"Meghan LundriganAuthor biographies

The Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century: Relevance and Challenges in the Digital Age challenges a number of key themes in Holocaust studies with new research. Essays in the section "Tropes Reconsidered" reevaluate foundational concepts such as Primo Levi's gray zone and idea of the muselmann. The chapters in "Survival Strategies and Obstructions" use digital methodologies to examine mobility and space and their relationship to hiding, resistance, and emigration. Contributors to the final section, "Digital Methods, Digital Memory," offer critical reflections on the utility of digital methods in scholarly, pedagogic, and public engagement with the Holocaust.Although the chapters differ markedly in their embrace or eschewal of digital methods, they share several themes: a preoccupation with the experiences of persecution, escape, and resistance at different scales (individual, group, and systemic); methodological innovation through the adoption and tracking of micro- and mezzohistories of movement and displacement; varied approaches to the practice of Saul FriedlAEnder's "integrated history"; the mainstreaming of oral history; and the robust application of micro- and macrolevel approaches to the geographies of the Holocaust. Taken together, these chapters incorporate gender analysis, spatial thinking, and victim agency into Holocaust studies. In so doing, they move beyond existing notions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders to portray the Holocaust as a complex and multilayered event.