Bringing forth new perspectives previously unrepresented in Holocaust studies

Lessons and Legacies, Volume XVI: Rethinking Paradigms does the difficult but crucial work of thinking through new methods and modes of representation that speak to where we find ourselves in Holocaust studies today, responding to—and developing new tools to analyze—the shifting shape of Holocaust memory: spatially, temporally, and in and across diverse media. The collection foregrounds the challenges visual sources pose to how we think about the Holocaust, including how it is represented differently in visual media, from photography to graphic novels, and establishes translation as a crucial concept for reframing Holocaust testimony and memory. The contributing authors also model ethical, nuanced ways to conduct comparative, connective work that challenges Eurocentric narratives of the Holocaust. The volume concludes with a section on memory work and activism that approaches the subject of post-1945 memory through different lenses to surface lesser-known aspects of Holocaust history.

SARAH PHILLIPS CASTEEL is a professor of English at Carleton University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

JENNIFER V. EVANS is a professor of history at Carleton University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Contents

Sarah Phillips Casteel and Jennifer V. Evans - Introduction: Rethinking Paradigms vii

I. Visuality

Dorota Glowacka - “She Was Once Beautiful”: Representations of Female Bodies in Visual Art from the Holocaust 5

Victoria Aarons - Child Survivor Graphic Narratives: Visualizing Memory and Testimony 40

Elissa Mailänder - Listening to Photographs of Wehrmacht Soldiers: Trophy Selfies as Social Images 64

II. Translation

Peter Davies - Knowledge, Testimony, Translation: Interpreting at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 95

Brigitte Stepanov - Translating Paradigms Through a Franco-Algerian Lens: Zahia Rahmani on Colonial Legacies and the Holocaust 119

III. Encounters and Entanglements

Pragya Kaul Guido - Jewish Refugees and British Indians: New Imperial Perspectives on the Global Holocaust 145

Yu Wang - “Long Road Home”: Jewish and German Scholars in China After the Cultural Revolution 169

Lisa M. Todd - Rassenschande: Racial and Sexual Segregation in German South West Africa and the Third Reich, 1904–1942 187

Joanna Krongold - “They Never Win When We Remember”: Memory, Resistance, and the Representation of Genocide in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves Series 210

IV. Memory Work/Activism

Helmut Walser Smith - Sojourns: Jewish Refugees and Survivors in Their German Hometowns in the 1980s 237

Frances Tanzer - Klezmer Dynasty: Melancholy and Holocaust Memory 263

Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden - Investigating the Space in Between: Digital Walk-Throughs with Commemoration Creators 289

Carli Snyder - “Were You Afraid of That?” Joan Ringelheim’s Feminism-Informed Interviewing Strategies and Survivors’ Memories of Fear of Rape, 1979–1984 313

Acknowledgments 335

Notes on Contributors 337