Resources on the Memory of the Holocaust / Holocaust Denialism

Note – the page on Post-WWII Europe may have some overlap with this page, so if you can’t find something on this page please look there as well!

Key Historical Sources – memory of the holocaust

  • LaCapra, Dominick. “Revisiting the Historians’ Debate: Mourning and Genocide.” History and Memory 9, no. 1/2 (1997): 80-112. Access on JSTOR
  • Rapson, Jessica. “Marginalized Memories.” In Topographies of Suffering: Buchenwald, Babi Yar, Lidice, 83-103. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2017. Access on JSTOR
  • Emslie, Barry. “The Historians’ Debate.” In Speculations on German History: Culture and the State, 171-87. Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2015.  Full PDF Here.
  • Novick, Peter. “The Holocaust Is Not—and Is Not Likely to Become—a Global Memory.” In Marking Evil: Holocaust Memory in the Global Age, edited by Goldberg Amos and Hazan Haim, 47-55. NEW YORK; OXFORD: Berghahn Books, 2015. Accessed October 8, 2020. Access on JSTOR
  • Lipstadt, Deborah, Deborah Dash Moore, MacDonald Moore, and Andrew Bush. Holocaust: An American Understanding. New Brunswick, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press, 2016. Access on JSTOR  
  • Subotić, Jelena. “The Politics of Holocaust Remembrance after Communism.” In Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism, 17-44. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2019. Access on JSTOR 

Key Historical Sources – Holocaust Denialism

  • Lipstadt, Deborah. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, 1993.
  • Weisberg, Richard H. “Fish Takes the Bait: Holocaust Denial and Post-Modernist Theory.” Law and Literature 14, no. 1 (2002): 131-41. Access on JSTOR  
  • Lang, Berel. “Six Questions on (or About) Holocaust Denial” History and Theory 49, no. 2 (2010): 157-68. Access on JSTOR

Films – Documentaries

  • The Sorrow and the Pity, dir. Marcel Ophuls, 1971 (French)
  • Shoah, dir. Claude Lanzmann, 1985. (French)
  • Babi Yar or Babij Yar, dir. Jeff Kanew, 2003. (Ukrainian and American)
  • Night and Fog, dir. Alain Resnais, 1956 (French)
  • Shadows of Memory (final episode) dir. Claudia von Alemann, 2000 (Unified German)
  • Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust dir. Daniel Anker, 2004. (Unified German, American)

Films – Fictional

  • Murderers are Among Us dir. Wolfgang Staudte, 1946. (East German)
  • The Stranger dir. Orson Wellses, 1946. (American)
  • Naked Among Wolves dir. Frank Beyer, 1963. (East German)
  • The Shop on Main Street dir. Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos, 1965. (Czechoslovakian)
  • The Garden of the Finzi Continis, dir. Vittorio de Sica, 1970. (Italian)
  • Holocaust (miniseries), dir. Marvin Chomsky, 1978 (American).
  • David, dir. Peter Lilenthal, 1979. (West German)
  • The Pianist, dir. Roman Polanski, 2002. (French, Polish, German, American)
  • Naked Among Wolves dir. Phillip Kadelbach, 2015. (Unified German)
  • Denial dir. Mick Jackson, 2016. (American – based on History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier by Deborah Lipstadt)

Oral History

Literary Sources

  • On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History by Nadine Fresco
  • It Is Impossible to Remain Silent: Reflections on Fate and Memory in Buchenwald by Jorge Semprun and Elie Wiesel
  • Brown, Jean C., Elaine C. Stephens, and Janet E. Rubin, editors. Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology.
  • Bruno Apitz, Naked Among Wolves, 1960.

Memorials

  • Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Europe, Berlin, Germany.
  • The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Denmark
  • Memorial to the Persecuted Homosexuals Under the National Socialist Regime, Berlin, Germany

Museums