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Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:07:57 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Paul Lawrence Rose <PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> Subject: Re: Publication info - Who Killed the Jews of Latvia?
In-Reply-To: rtidyman AT laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au -- Sat, 29 Apr 1995 09:43:15 CDT
The Ezergailis essay on Latvia has been published with the rest of the conferen ce papers in "Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis", ed. S Gilman and S. Katz, NYU Press, 1991. It should be easily available through ILL or in paperback. PLRose PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:09:30 CDT
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s?= Nader
<andresna@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: Address of Wannsee Museum
>From: Simon Wiesenthal Center Library/Archives < simonwie@CLASS.ORG >
>
>
>A few months ago someone posted the address and phone number of the
>Wannsee Museum. What was it?
>
Gedenkstaette Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz
Am Grossen Wannsee 56-58
D-14109 Berlin
Germany
Tel.: (030) 80 50 01 0
Fax: (030) 80 50 01 27
The code for Germany is 49.
Sincerely,
Andres Nader,
Eichkatzweg 77
14055-Berlin
Germany
Tel 49 (030) 30 24 638
e-mail: andresna@fub46.zedat.fu-berlin.de
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 09:11:55 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: SAC@aol.com Subject: ftp sites
Does anyone know of any ftp sites that contain curricula for teaching the Holocaust? I am esepcially interested in the Pennsylvania curriculum for teachers of the Holocaust that is part of the Electronic Jewish Library. My gopher connection to this library is not working and I need an address name.
Steven Cohen
NYC
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 10:07:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Reichmark equivalency
From: crowed < crowed@VAX1.ELON.EDU >
In 1938-40, $1 equaled 2.5 Reichsmarks. David Crowe. crowed@vax1.elon.edu
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 10:12:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Symbols used by the Nazis
From: Charles Fishman <FISHMAN%SNYFARVA>
I believe the sun-wheel version of the swastika was Hindu in origin. The
"arms"
of this wheel "turned" toward the left, that is, toward the spiritual realm,
whereas the Nazis turned the arms toward the right, that is, toward the
material
universe.
Charles Fishman * Fishman@snyfarva.cc.farmingdale.edu Distinguished Service Professor * * * (516) 420-2031 (Voice) Dir., Visiting Writers Program * * * (516) 420-2051 (Fax)
SUNY, Farmingdale * * * "If the Sun & Moon should doubt, Farmingdale, NY 11735 * They'd immediately go out." --Blake
From: Stephen Feinstein < feins001@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU >
The Chicago artists Edith Altman had created a huge room installation
that does into the history and symbol of the Swastika, as well as other
symbols manipulated by the Nazis. She juxtaposes the Swastika and the
Star of David. The installation includes an entire section from an 1894
encyclopaedia depicting the history and migration of the swastika. Her
installation tries to redeem the symbol through shamanism using the
Kabbalah and Jungian psychoolgy. I have a paper on the work. You can also
contact Edith in Chicago:
811 W 16th St
Chicago, IL 60608
The installation also contains a dissection of the triangle, which became
a symbol of victimization. Hilberg discusses the euphenisms used for
"killing" in DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY.
Stephen Feinstein
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 11:04:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: FW: Fwd: Re: Holocaust Education
From: Richard Prystowsky <RJPrys@aol.com>
Janis Coulter makes some very good points. I would ask, though, if it's
possible to recognize consequences without necessarily arguing
teleologically. In other words, let's say, just for the sake of argument,
that Israel was in fact created as a result of the world's guilt (which is
how I believe the matter was phrased in someone else's post). Could we not
say that this consequence followed from the Holocaust without thereby
arguing
for a redemptive theology (for example) of/in/concerning the Holocaust?
Obviously, I'm leaving aside the question of whether or not Israel's
founding can be understood in the terms alluded to here.
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
From: JANIS R. COULTER < jcoulter@cassandra.cair.du.edu >
Responding to Judy Podolsky's post:
Your goals and methods are extremely admirable and, I must add, beautifully written. However, I do have one question:
Can we really talk about Israel being created as a result of the world's
guilt at their own treatment, or avoidance, of the "Jewish Issue" during
WWII without somehow reaching the conclusion that something good came out
of the Holocaust? I don't believe we should make the connection or pose
the question in this way, lest we risk causing some to come to the
conclusion
that we suffered for a good cause, that the Holocaust "was worth it"
somehow.
This may be too fine a point to bother debating it, but I think it is an
important one to recognize. HaShoah was too horrendous an event, and one
in which all humanity participated in in one way or another. We should
approach it for what it is - as incomprehensible as it seems most times -
and leave it at that.
Yes, Israel represents the future of the Jewish people. Hopefully that future will be one in which Jews can be secure (difficulties in today's Mid-East aside, we all know how precarious reality is). But do we really want to believe that 6 million Jews, and another 6 million nonJews, died so that Israel may live? I realize that in a sense this is the truth of it, I simply do not want the Holocaust to be a precedent-setting event. Of course, viewing the ethnic cleansing occuring in the former Yugoslavia in the name of nation-building, I know that I'm too late, the precedent exists. But I don't have to like it.
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 11:29:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: FW: REGISTRY OF NON-JEWISH PERSONS WHO DIED AT DEATH CAMPS?
From: arieh.lebowitz < arieh.lebowitz@rex.com >
Just a thought, but it would be likely that the German authiorities, who were so meticulous about record-keeping in other ways, would have kept records of non-Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents, Jehovah's Witnesses, and I would even imagine that they would hav ekept categorized records. Who on the list has information on all of those German/Nazi archives that were hurriedly microfilmed and then packed back to Germany not too long ago?
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 13:39:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: QUERY: Zuchthaus and Gefaengnis
From: William M. Thomas < wmthomas@STRAUSS.UDEL.EDU >
The "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (15.9.35) lists the punishment for Jews marrying Germans as _Zuchthaus_ and the punishment for "extramartial intercourse" [ausserehelicher Verkehr] between Jews and Germans as _Gefaengnis_ or _Zuchthaus_. My dictionary lists them both simply as "prison," but the law is clearly making a distinction between the two. Could anyone explain the difference to me?
Thanks.
Will Thomas
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////
William M. Thomas
wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
Dept of History, U of Delaware
The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of
the use of camera and pen alike.
--Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 14:29:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Useful Videos for Classes on the Holocaust
From: Jerry Rosenberg < JROSENBE@UA1VM.UA.EDU >
I am sending this partial list of videos I have used in my Holocaust classes and will send additional listings later in the week. At that time I will try and identify when I use any specific video or set of videos, depending on the focus and content needs of the class and the kind of impact on students that only visual images can make.
Video of Mydanek and Triblinka (obtained at Triblinka)
Video of Mauthausen (obtained at Mauthausen)
Nazi Plans for Death-Auschwitz PBS
The Longest Hatred-Anti-semitism
Memories of the Camps PBS
Nazi Concentration Camps-War Dept. Films
The Eagles Nest
David Wolper-Trial at Nurmberg
Selling Murder:The Killing Films of the Third Reich
Hitler: The Whole Story
Fatal Attraction of Adolph Hitler
Fuhrer-Seduction of a People
Wannsee Conference
The Warsaw Ghetto
The Lodz Ghetto
Facing Evil-Bill Moyers-PBS
History of SS
Judgment at Nuremberg
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Witness to the Holocaust--The Eichmann trial in Jerusalem
Facing Hate with Elie Wiesel PBS
A Portrait of Elie Wiesel-PBS
Kitty: Return to Auschwitz
The Unknown War--The Nazi invasion of Russia and the liberation of the camps
Of Pure Blood
Liebensborn
Purple Triangle--The Jehovah's Witnesses under Nazism
Weapons of the Spirit
Courage to Care
Restless Conscience--Nazi Resistance
Theresianstadt-The Model Camp
Triumph of Memory
Eyewitness to History--The Emory University project on survivors and
liberators
Dust and Ashes
Art of Holocaust
Precious Legacy
Krystallnacht
Genocide #20 of World at War series
Confessions of a Hitler Youth--HBO
Triumph of the Will
Judd Suess
The Eternal Jew
The Radio Priest--anti-semitism in America 30s and 40s
SHOAH
Memorandum
Armenian Journey--The Armenian Genocide
Last week the Discovery Channel showed an excellent documentary of liberators sharing their rememberances with pictures of the camps they liberated and follow-up with some of the survivors.
I hope this partial list helps. If there are any specific questions about
any
of the films listed in terms of content or use prior to my follow-up posting
please contact me through the net or personally. Jerry Rosenberg, Univ of
Alabama.
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 15:04:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Symbols used by the Nazis
From: Stacey Ward <wards@plk.af.mil>
Jill Goldstein/Gerda Gisella wrote...
> I am interested in knowing what Ancient German symbols the Nazis used and
> how they perverted their original meaning.
>
> For example the Swastika is a sunwheel, that has been important in the
> native heathen religion of the Germanic People. Another is the Rune
> Sowilo was used as the "lightning bolts" on the SS collars. They aren't
> lightning bolts but the Rune from the Elder Futhark called Sowilo. IN
> Holland I understand a certain branch of the German Army used Othala Rune
> for one of their symbols.
>
> What other symbols were perverted by the Nazis?
As a related tangent, there was an excellent documentary on PBS
approximately
two years ago: "The Nazis and the Occult." It dealt in part with the Nazis'
fascination with symbolism, as well as the "occult." Did not see all of it,
so I don't know if the perversion of symbols was addressed per se.
Regards,
--
Ms. Stacey A. Ward
wards@plk.af.mil "how can you start a revolution
if you won't walk on the grass?"
-- Russian folk saying
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Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 15:34:00 CDT
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From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com>
Subject: Re: REGISTRY OF NON-JEWISH PERSONS WHO DIED AT DEATH CAMPS?
From: Michael Thaler <mmt@itsa.ucsf.EDU>
The "Nazi/German archives" you inquire about contain predominantly Nazi
Party and SS membership records. These were kept in the Berlin
Documentation Center under the jurisdiction of the US Armed Forces until
last
summer when control was turned over to German authorities. Prior to
transfer from American to German control, all files were
microfilmed and the copies brought to the National Archives in Washington,
The first 4,000 microfilmed dossiers were recently made available for public
inspection.
On Mon, 1 May 1995, Mott, Jim wrote:
> From: arieh.lebowitz < arieh.lebowitz@rex.com >
>
> Just a thought, but it would be likely that the German authiorities, who
> were so meticulous about record-keeping in other ways, would have kept
> records of non-Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political opponents,
> Jehovah's Witnesses, and I would even imagine that they would hav ekept
> categorized records. Who on the list has information on all of those
> German/Nazi archives that were hurriedly microfilmed and then packed
> back to Germany not too long ago?
>
Date: Mon, 1 May 1995 16:29:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Wladyslaw Bartoszewski in Israel.
From: tkgierym@k-vector.chem.washington.edu (Tadeusz K. Gierymski)
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 29, 1995, reports that
Polish Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski
will be attending events in Israel early next
month to mark the end of World War II hostilities
in Europe 50 years ago, it was announced in Warsaw
Saturday.
He will speak in the Knesset on May 9 and on May 10 will take part in a congress of the World Association of Jewish Combatants. Bartoszewski was given honorary citizenship of Israel in 1991 for his efforts to save Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland. He was invited to Israel on a number of occasions before he became foreign minister.
According to the Polish Foreign Ministry Bartoszewski will meet Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin and President Ezer Weizman during his stay in Israel from May 9-12.
Here are excerpts (my translation - tkg) from M-3129 in Yad Vashem Archives concerning Wladyslaw Bartoszewski's activities during the WW II for which he received the title of a "Righteous Gentile" in 1965:
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski was a soldier in the
Home Army (AK) ... . He was a member of the
Provisional Committee of Aid to Jews and later
of "Zegota" - Council for Aid to Jews - founded
in December 1942 in cooperation with the
Delegatura of the Polish Government in Exile.
He was Deputy to the Director of the Jewish
Section in the Department of Internal Affairs of
the Delegatura. After the war he was a co-founder
of the League for combatting Fascism, a member
of Poland's main commmision studying German
war crimes, and he wrote extensively about Jewish
martyrology during the German occupation.
Wladyslaw Bartoszewski was born in Warsaw 2/19/1922. He was a prisoner in Auschwitz, and after his release from it he helped to found "Zegota." He was active in the Polish Home Army (AK), was on the editorial staff of its "Biuletyn Informacyjny," and took part in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Yisroel Gutman wrote of "Zegota":
But the activists of 'Zegota,' the people who
actually bore the taxing and perilous task of
rescue, were among the bravest heroes of the
war, truly the righteous among nations.'
Is "Zegota" the only national organization honored with its own tree in the Avenue of the Just?
Tadeusz K. Gierymski
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 09:06:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Review: *Etre juif en France pendant la ww2* [x H-FRANCE]
Renee Poznanski
Etre juif en France pendant la seconde guerre mondiale
Hachette, Paris 1994, 859 p.
ISBN 2.01.013109.6
Renne Poznanski est professeur d'Histoire a l'universite Ben Gourion du Neguev, a Beer Sheva (Israel).
Dans "Vichy et les juifs", M.R. Marrus et R.O. Paxton avaient longuement analyse la politique antisemite de Vichy et les responsabilites de ce regime dans la Shoah.
Le livre de Renee Poznanski a pour objectif "de faire sortir les Juifs du texte de loi.. en somme redonner aux Juifs qui ne sont bien souvent traites que comme objets-victimes de l'histoire, le role de sujet" (p. 11). Du coup la scene francaise pendant la seconde guerre mondiale prend un nouvel eclairage, sans aucun doute particulierement necessaire, mais surtout extremement riche. L'auteur s'appuie sur des fonds peu utilis s jusqu'alors : journaux personnels (mise en parallele de journaux tenus par des juifs et des non-juifs), archives des organisations juives, t moignages.
Renee Poznanski montre d'abord l'extreme diversite des juifs en France
en 1939. Bien loin du Juif unique de la propagande vichyssoise,
la micro societe juive (300.000 a 330.000 personnes) est extremement
heterogene. Fran ais juifs assimiles (90.000 personnes) et juifs etrangers
de toutes nationalites, socialistes et bourgeois, pratiquants et
non-pratiquants : il est bien difficile de parler d'une communaute. Les
juifs francais, emancipes depuis 1791, particulierement republicains,
avaient
toutes les raisons de s'en remettre a l'etat francais. Le juif etranger est
plus isole et ne beneficiera pas des memes appuis dans la societe francaise.
Ainsi se dessine la variete des situations face a la montee de l'antisemitisme en France.
Des 1939, avant Vichy, plusieurs decrets sont pris par le gouvernement
francais, ordonnant l'internement de 3000 refugies juifs Allemands et
Autrichiens dans les culs de basse fosse de la Republique (Gurs, Le Vernet,
,etc..), enrolant de force les etrangers dans des compagnies de
"prestataires"
qui deviendront "groupements de travailleurs etrangers" sous Vichy.
La defaite amene avec elle la serie de mesures antisemites prises par les Allemands et par Vichy. Depuis Paxton, ces mesures sont connues : recensements, spoliation, "epuration", internement puis deportation. Chacune de ces etapes fait l'objet d'une etude minutieuse. Temoignages et journaux personnels restituent la vie dans les camps d'internement, les GTE, Drancy ou Compiegne. Les rapports officiels permettent de chiffrer le rendement des recensements, de "l'aryanisation" des biens juifs, de l'organisation de l'epuration puis des rafles. Les archives officielles rendent compte de la deportation de 76.000 juifs de France (dont 24.500 Francais) et du soutien qu'apporta Vichy.
L'auteur decrit la surdite de l'administration francaise qui applique avec serieux et rigueur professionnelle des lois de plus en plus eloignees des principes de base du droit francais.
Renee Poznanski montre la variete des comportements face a ces mesures. Le choc le plus brutal est pour les juifs Francais. Souvent ce fut l'occasion d'une prise de conscience de sa judeite. Mais tous, pour survivre, devinrent dependants soit de la societe francaise, soit des association juives.
L'auteur restitue l'acharnement des differentes associations a venir en aide a une population menacee. Et d'abord l'UGIF, organisme cree par Vichy et l'occupant, qui finira par englober toutes les associations legales, et dont elle montre le role positif. Si les dirigeants de l'UGIF accepterent une collaboration technique avec les autorites ce fut pour proteger les reseaux d'assistance la communaute. Pour les juifs, survivre devient un acte de volonte et de resistance.
Si pour manger il faut un papier d'identite (la carte de rationnement), pour survivre se cacher est necessaire. Pour sortir du dilemme, les juifs francais trouverent souvent des complicites "aryennes". D'autres eurent recours aux organisations juives. Ainsi la communaute passa a la resistance passive ou active. R. Poznanski decrit le travail des resistants dans les organisations paralleles a l'UGIF; la creation de groupes armes dont les plus celebres et les plus actifs furent les FTP-MOI. D'autres organisations juives fournissent des milliers de faux papiers, dissimulent des milliers d'enfants, organisent les passages a l'etranger par centaines.
A la fin de la guerre, les trois quarts de la communaute juive ont survecu.
Renee Poznanski reconnait le role des associations juives dans la
sauvegarde de la communaute. Par leur diversite, leurs relais dans la
societe francaise, elles purent aider la communaute dans son heterogeneite.
Mais, pour elle (comme pour S. Klarsfeld), le role de la societe civile
fut determinant. "L'Etat pouvait effacer d'un trait de loi des mesures
d'Emancipation, il ne pouvait en effacer les effets qui s'etaient enracines
dans la societe durant cent cinquante ans" (p 705). Si la societe francaise
accueille sans reaction les premieres mesures antisemites, des le printemps
1941 des voix se font entendre. Ce sont surtout les scenes de rafle de l'ete
1942 qui font basculer l'opinion francaise, d'autant plus que les juifs
ne sont pas les seules victimes de Vichy (les francs-macons, les
communistes,
les requis du STO...). "Le drame vecu par les Juifs en France pendant la
Seconde Guerre mondiale fut en meme temps une tragedie juive et une
tragedie francaise" (p. 710).
Un des derniers chapitres du livre est consacre aux lendemains de la Liberation. Apres quatre ans de propagande antisemite officielle, les survivants eurent bien du mal a recuperer les biens dont ils avaient ete spolies. Toute trace d'antisemitisme n'avait pas disparu du pays...
Le livre de Renee Poznanski est d'une extreme richesse et complete de facon incontournable le travail de Paxton et Marrus.
Francois Jarraud
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Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 11:47:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Publication info - Who Killed the Jews of Latvia?
From: David Dickerson <ddickerson@IGC.ORG>
Dear Richard,
> I am wondering if anyone knows the whether a lecture by > Andrew Ezergailis called "Who Killed the Jews of Latvia?" > has been published? It was presented to the conference > "Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis", April 10 1986 at > Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. If anyone could > send me a copy that would also be great.
You will be happy to learn that Andrew Ezergailis' essay, "Anti-Semitism and the Killing of Latvia's Jews," has indeed been published, in the fine volume, ANTI-SEMITISM IN TIMES OF CRISIS, edited by Sander L. Gilman and Steven T. Katz (New York: New York University Press, 1991); the ISBN for the book is 0-8147-3056-6. Please let me know if you need any additional information.
Also, as you may know -- and according to the "Notes on Contributors" in ANTI-SEMITISM IN TIMES OF CRISIS -- Andrew Ezergailis is/was working on a study of the Holocaust in Latvia.
Cordially,
David Dickerson
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:32:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Black Book's editor
From: Alexander Soifer < asoifer@ELEVEN.UCCS.EDU >
Permite me a little correction. The Black Book editor's name is Ilya Erenburg (not Ehrenberg). He was a writer, poet and journalist. Above all, he personally knew Pasternak, Mandelshtam, Tuvim, Modigliani, Pascin, Sutin, Picasso and counless other creators. His 3 volume memoirs "People, Years, Life" is an incredible reading, an encyclopedia of XX century. I have it in Russian, but perhaps somebody could post its translations.
Yours, Alexander Soifer (asoifer@uccs.edu).
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:32:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Reichmark equivalency
From: SIMPSON < SIMPSON@AMERICAN.EDU >
David Crowe is right about the 1938-1940 RM/$ exchange rate, and I suppose
that number may be as good as can be found. There are a few built-in
problems,
however. First, the RM was not fully convertable and as a practical matter
the
2.5/1 exchange rate was set by the German government. It tended to inflate
the
value of the RM. Second, the Nazis' finance ministry made a practice of
manipulating
both sides of international currency exchange by capturing the
central
banks in conquered regions and installing compliant bankers. This device
permitted
them to loot the assets of whole countries -- the British did an
interesting
wartime study of this and the Poles attempted to bring formal war
crimes
charges as a result of this practice. Third, the systematic theft of Jewish
property and the associated flight of Jewish-owned capital tended to make
the
RM more valuable in certain situations and less valuable in others,
depending
upon whether the holder was attempting to flee Germany or an outside
speculator
attempting to cash in on the crisis.
Also, for my two cents worth, the passage of time has made it increasingly
difficult to translate the value of, say, 1940 dollars into 1995_dollars_
because of the differences in economic activities of the society.... Yes,
competent economists do make such translations all the time; my point here
is
simply that the more the economies diverge over time, the greater the degree
to which hypothetical exchange rates will reflect the economist's own model
and
the assumptions built into it. It also becomes more and more difficult to
compa
re the hypothetical rates to those set by markets, because no such markets
exis
t.
Regards, simpson@american.edu
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 12:32:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Query: Cookbooks produced in camps and ghettos
From: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett < krshnbtt@ACF2.NYU.EDU >
I am interested in the phenomenon of women in ghettos and concentration
camps writing down recipes they remembered in notebooks. Several of them
are
in the collection of Yad Vashem. One is about to be published. I am trying
to
locate others. If anyone knows of such material, I would be very grateful
for the information.
Thank you.
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
krshnbtt@acf2.nyu.edu FAX: 212-254-7885 TEL: 212-998-1628
Department of Performance Studies, 721 Broadway, 6th fl, New York, NY 10003
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 14:37:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Reichmark equivalency
From: David Dickerson < ddickerson@IGC.ORG >
>From MAClelland <MAClelland@AOL.COM>:
> In reports, students have cited the Reichmark value of > the slave labor and the ultimate "profit" accrued to the > state from managing the camps. However, I do not know > what the modern equivalent for a Reichmark is; > consequently, these figures have no clear meaning for my > students. Can anyone give me a sense of what the > Reichmark's purchasing power in today's dollars might be?
Based upon the figures in the chapter, "The Machinery of Mass Murder at Auschwitz," by Jean-Claude Pressac and Robert-Jan van Pelt in ANATOMY OF THE AUSCHWITZ DEATH CAMP (edited by Yisrael Gutman and Michael Berenbaum)*, it would appear that, when that particular chapter was written in 1992, four (4) Reichsmarks (RM) would have been the rough equivalent of one (1.00) US dollar. In other words, one RM is about a fourth of a US dollar (25 cents). Here is an example figure from page 233 of ANATOMY OF THE AUSCHWITZ DEATH CAMP:
Crematorium II was finally delivered on March 31
at a cost of 554,500 RM (1992: $2,215,000).
I offer this exchange rate with a word of caution, since I am far from being an expert on currency exchange and since the above figure is for the US dollar in 1992. (To get a rough idea of the equivalent in US dollars, I've simply been multiplying the RM amounts I read by four.)
I hope that my estimation is close enough to be useful, but I would very much appreciate more definitive responses from other HOLOCAUS list members.
Cordially,
David Dickerson
David Dickerson / / / ddickerson@igc.apc.org
"In a world of absurdity, we must invent reason; we must create beauty out of nothingness." - Elie Wiesel
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:01:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Film on the Kutno ghetto
From: Jerzy Halbersztadt < HALBERUW@PLEARN >
Few days ago I have seen in Warsaw the first presentation of a new documental film "Miasteczko" (A small town) produced by a private producer and directed by Agnieszka Arnold. It is the film on the creation (1940) of the Jewish ghetto in KUTNO, a small town 125 km westwards from Warsaw. Agnieszka Arnold found an anonymous tape kept by Archives of the Documental Film Producers in Warsaw and identified Kutno in this film. This film had been copied two years ago from the unidentified documents of the Bundesarchiv Babelsberg. According to the information released to Mrs. Arnold Bundesarchiv received this material from the Russian Film Archives in Krasnogorsk.
The original film was taken on 16 mm professional camera, probably by the German local photographer. It is not resembling the typical Nazi propaganda films. It simply documents the everyday life of the small ghetto (ca. 7,000 inhabitants). Kutno is located in this part of Poland which was incorporated directly to Reich after 1939. Mrs.Arnold confronted the documental film with the reactions of Jewish survivors of Kutno living now in Israel and with the comments of Polish neighbours. The result is really interesting. The film lasts ca. 25 minutes. The next part on the Jewish survivors of Kutno after 1945 is planned.
Jerzy Halbersztadt, University of Warsaw, and the Director of the Polish Program of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC.)
01-682 Warszawa
Kiwerska 16/8
tel/fax (+48 22) 33-79-21
e-mail: halberuw@plearn.edu.pl
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:01:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: A conference on the Chelmno death camp
From: Jerzy Halbersztadt < HALBERUW@PLEARN >
The conference on the death camp in Chelmno was held on 24 April, 1995, in Konin (I informed the Holocaust-L correspondents on this event few weeks ago). It was a factual and valuable review of the results of the research of this topic. The positive effects of this short, one-day conference were possible due to organisers who managed to publish all the papers presented (in Polish language with English and German summaries). The book titled
"OSRODEK ZAGLADY W CHELMNIE NAD NEREM I
JEGO ROLA W HITLEROWSKIEJ POLITYCE
EKSTERMINACYJNEJ, MATERIALY Z SESJI
NAUKOWEJ"
contains the texts as follows (I quote the translations of the
titles done by the organisers although these translations are far
from correctness):
Slawomir Abramowicz (Lodz), State of Polish investigations on the extermination center in Chelmno on the Ner,
Julian Baranowski (Lodz), Extermination of Jews from Wartheland and West Europe in Chelmno on the Ner,
Juliusz Gulczynski (Konin), Extermination place in Chelmno on the Ner,
Marian Kaczmarek (Poznan), Hitleric plans of the extermination of Jewish people in Wartheland,
Shmuel Krakowski (Jerusalem), The state of researches on the extermination center in Chelmno on the Ner outside Polish borders,
Andrzej Bodek (Frankfurt a.M.), Der Vernichtungszentrum Chelmno nad Nerem im Kontext der Ermordung europaeischer Juden,
Marek Budziarek (Lodz), Poles, Czech children and Soviet prisoners of war murdered in Chelmno on the Ner (The survey of the problem),
Antoni Galinski (Lodz), Liquidation of Gypsies - prisoners of Lodz-ghetto in Chelmno on the Ner,
Jan Jagielski (Warszawa), Documents referring to the extermination camp Chelmno on the Ner in the collections of Jewish Historic Institute,
Witold Kulesza (Lodz), Garrison's members of the extermination center in Chelmno/Ner in front of German court of justice, outlines of biographies, actions and bearings,
Przemyslaw Mnichowski (Zielona Gora), Extermination center in Chelmno on the Ner in the light of inquisitional records in the Central Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against Polish Nation,
Marian Kaczmarek, Origins of the extermination of Jews in Wartheland, The extermination of Jews in Konin District,
Piotr Rybczynski (Konin), Liquidation of the agglomerations of Jewish population in the Konin's district.
The most important topic discussed in few papers was the number of victims of Chelmno. It was the common opinion that the older evaluations of 320,000 - 360,000 victims (given by Polish scholars Bednarz and Serwanski as well as by Dawidowicz, Gilbert, Encyclopaedia of Holocaust, etc.) are not proved by the reliable source evidence. The number of victims was surely less than 200,000. Baranowski, who investigated the transports to Chelmno, says that 150,000 to 160,000 Jews from Wartheland and West Europe and over 4,000 Gypsies were killed in Chelmno. It confirms the earlier evaluations of Raul Hilberg, Adalbert Rueckerl and other scholars.
I asked in Chelmno how the copies of this book could be available for foreigners. I am sorry, but I could not be an agent for all interested (except of few colleagues from the list who requested me to play this role before the conference). All other persons can write directly to the District Museum in Konin:
Muzeum Okregowe w Koninie
ul. Muzealna 6
62-505 Konin -Goslawice
Poland
The price of one copy is ca. US dollars 4.00. The air mail to the USA costs ca. US dollars 6.00. You can mail 10.00 dollars cheques to the museum (putting on the cheque the name of museum - Muzeum Okregowe w Koninie - and the bank account of the museum (WBK O/Konin 353005-61607) or you can transfer the payment directly to bank account informing the museum on it.
The telephone of the museum is (+48 63) 427-599. The name of the director of the museum is Mrs. Lucja Nowak.
Jerzy Halbersztadt, University of Warsaw, and the Director of the Polish Program of the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC.)
01-682 Warszawa
Kiwerska 16/8
tel/fax (+48 22) 33-79-21
e-mail: halberuw@plearn.edu.pl
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:46:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Explaining Hitler
From: Jay Losey < Jay_Losey@BAYLOR.EDU >
Dear list members,
In the most recent NEW YORKER, there are two articles on Hitler. The first
is
by Ron Rosenbaum, titled "Explaining Hitler." The byline reads as follows:
"What was the genesis of Hitler's evil? In the fifty years since his death,
generations of experts have produced wildly competing theories that attempt
to
account for every aspect of his identity--and imply troubling things about
our
own." The second much shorter piece is by Philip Hamburger and is titled
"Letter From Berchtesgaden: Beauty and the Beast." Both articles can be
found
in the 1 May 1995 issue, pp. 50-73. Cordially, Jay.
Jay_Losey@baylor.edu
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 10:56:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Earliest Reference to "Holocaust"
From: Franklin Littell < FHL@TEMPLEVM >
Colleagues: I am grateful to Charles Fishman for his information on use of the word "Holocaust." The forthcoming issue of HOLOCAUST AND GENOCIDE STUDIES will carry an article of mine in which i.a. I discuss my own experience with this word. I remember hearing Elie Wiesel and Raul Hilberg discussing one time which of them introduced it - NIGHT in 1958 or THE DESTRUCTION OF EUROPEAN JEWRY in 1961? Two summers ago a German scholar working in my papers from my years with OMGUS discovered it used in a "Newsletter" I was mimeographing and sending to colleagues back home - from Stuttgart in August, 1949. On reflection I concluded I must have picked it up - as a precise reference to the Nazi genocide of the Jews - from American Jewish chaplains or from workers in the DP camps. In any case, I concluded in my paper: "The `Holocaust' was not `invented,' as the revisionists claim... we looked back and it was there - as close, as inescapable, as our own shadows." - Franklin Littell
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 11:26:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Birkenau -Sonderkommando
From: Saul Issroff < 100142.3356@COMPUSERVE.COM >
On 29/4/95. re Sonderkommando and Arnost Lustig-
>From: ajacobs < ajacobs@INTERACCESS.COM >
>Hello,My name is Alan Jacobs. I am new here. I am not new to Holocaust
studies.
>Right now I am trying to find someone who speaks Czech and knows about the
>war. I have tapes of an interview I did, in 1980 in Mannheim, with Filip
>M=FCller, the former sonderkommando at Birkenau and author of the book
>"Eyewitness Auschwitz, Three years in the Gas chambers". The interpreter
>was Arnost Lustig. But as he got into many conversations in thier native
>tongue with M=FCller that he didn't translate, I need some help. Is anyone
>interested in the contents of these tapes? Can anyone recommend an
>enterpreter? Also I have tape of an interview with Lustig, Milton Buki and
>Manya Buki on the same subject. Milton was also a sonderkommando at
>Birkenau. Manya worked in the Sauna disinfecting clothing from the camp and
>from the transports with Zyclon B.
>Also is anyone here familiar with an Oswiecim State Museum publication: "Amidst a Nightmare of Crime, Notes of Prisoners of Sonderkommando Found at >Auschwitz" (1973)? These are notes written in Yiddish and stuffed in >various containers and buried beneath the ashes at Krematoria II & III, >Birkenau. Is anyone interested, or is anyone working on a study of the >sonderkommnando? Best,Jake
'After Those Fifty Years', (Memoirs of the Birkenau Boys)
edited by John Freund and obtainable from him. His address is:-
John Freund
184 Highbourne Road
Toronto
Ontario, Canada M5P 2J7, Tel.No. 416 481 1933
I was in Birkenau 15th Dec. 43 to 24th Dec. 44. In July 44 about 90 boys
were
transferred from the so called Czech Familienlager (Abschnitt BIIb) to the
Maennerlager. There we were accomodated in the Straffenblock next to the
Sonderkommando. I had been a Laeufer (runner) for the hospital block in
BIIb
and ran errands for Mengele, in the Maennerlager I became Laeufer for the
Kleiderkammer (clothing department). The Maennerlager (Abschnitt BIId) was
a
service camp for the whole of Birkenau. The men of the Sonderkommando
befriended us, fed us and helped in all sorts of ways. It was a special
thing
that they had contact with Jewish children who were alive. I spent the
first
three days in the Maennerlager with them and a foreman of one of the
Sonderkommando gangs called Geille got me a pair of skiing boots which saw
me
through the evacuation right up to the time I had a sauna just before typhus
in Mauthausen in May 1945.
Geille was the foreman of the gang of crematorium III which was blown up by the Sonderkommando in October 1944. Their revolt lasted about half an hour and all of them were shot.
As I had access to roads round the Birkenau camp Geille asked me to tell
about
10,000 Hungarian Jews that they were waiting to be gassed, they were camped
out on the road between the Maennerlager and the BIIc Abschnitt, I was to
ask
them to start a riot when they heard the explosion. Some men took me to a
Rabbi who heard me out and asked why my Yiddisch was like Taich. I
explained
that I was from Czechoslovakia and that up to Auschwitz I had heard my
parents
speak to Polish Jews and always understood Yiddisch but that I only started
speaking the language in the camp. The Rabbi chose not to believe me
because
I was smartly dressed as a Laeufer and had special permission to grow my
hair.
He turned to the bystanders and accused me of being a provocateur. The
revolt had no support at all, and in due course the people waiting were the
last group of Hungarian Jews to be gassed. When they were finnished the
Germans started dismantling the gas chambers and crematoria, leaving only
crematorium II to service the corpses of the dying, there was no shortage of
bodies.
I write extensively, not necessarily about the Holocaust, my subject is
Jewish
genealogy. I will be in the US at the Washington DC summer seminar on
Jewish
Genealogy taking place 24th to 29th June. We could meet. I am willing to
help you all I can. There are several others of the boys some in the US who
could also tell you more stories about the Sonderkommando in Birkenau. I
speak Czech, a bit of Polish, Hebrew & Yiddish and have done a number of
translations.
Shalom, Michael Honey 100142,421@Compuserve.com
(posted on behalf of Mike Honey)
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 12:21:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Allied indifference?
From: Paul Lawrence Rose < PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU >
It is difficult to take seriously the Jerusalem Report feature of 12 Jan. excusing the bombing of Auschwitz. One subsequent published comment by a Polish gentile witness in the issue of 23 March may interest readers: "US Air Force apologists mentioned in Why Didn't the Allies Bomb Auschwitz speak of an "umbrella" of hundreds of Luftwaffe fighter planes and "79 heavy guns" defending Auschwitz from air attack. All this is imaginary. In 1944 I was a prisoner in Ausch. working as "captain" of one of the camp's three fire trucks. We were responsible for checking the fire-fighting equipment in the heavily industiral 40 sq. km. area...During the summer of 1944 there were several US air-raids on this area, and I watched them through binoculars. Only once did I spot two German fighter planes. They "defended" the area by flying scared and at tree-top level, while high above them 90 US Superfortresses flew nonchalantly by. In 1944 there were 17 (not 79!) anti-aircraft guns in the area. They were manned by Italian gunners and were chronically short of ammunition. Sigmund Sobolewski. Vice-President, Auschwitz Awareness Society, Alberta, Canada". Mr Sobolewski is well-known and appreciated for his countering of the various denial myths that have sprung up about Auschwitz. PLRose PLR2@psuvm.Psu.Edu.
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 13:16:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: FW: Weimar and Buchenwald
From: Aharon Meytahl < power@act.co.il>
An Israeli theater director was intrigued by co-location of Weimar, a city where Goethe, Schiller, Bach, Liszt lived and created some of their works, and Buchenwald (actually Ettersberg) concentration camp and the headquarters of the Second SS Totenkopf Division. He decided to produce in Weimar the Merchant of Venice, with German actors. In this production, the plot takes place in SS Officers' Club. A Jew is ordered to play Shylock for the German officers. The Israeli TV Channel 1, interviewed some of the actors and several people from the audience. They did not like the interpretation. They complained that it was painted in black and white. Life, they said, is more complicated. One actor said that he does not believe that SS Officers behaved in the way he was told to act, but being a professional actor he does what instructed by the director.
Jorge Semprun, a Spaniard and a French man of letters also deals with Buchenwald and Weimar in his book published last year, Writing or Life, which probably will be soon translated into English. Semprun who was for a while Minister of Culture in Felipe Gonzales cabinet, was during the war a young student of philosophy in Paris. He fought in the resistance, was captured in 1944 and sent to Buchenwald. He was twenty at that time.
The book is an autobiographical narrative, focused on the day of liberation and its aftermath with flashbacks to being a Buchenwald prisoner. It is a remarkable account.
Semprun, a gentile, has a profound respect for the Jews, whose conditions were much worse. He tells about an Auschwitz Sonderkomando Jew who somehow remained alive and was sent to Buchenwald. This person met with the resistance committee and recounted his Auschwitz experience. After some minutes of silence, the head of the group, a German prisoner by the name of Kaminski asked everybody to remember Germany. Germans did the atrocities.
After liberation Semprun, like many others, contemplated suicide. He feels himself akin to Primo Levi and attempts a bold interpretation for the reason for his suicide.
I recommend the book to everybody.
Aharon Meytahl
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 13:21:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Symbololgy origins in Nazi Germany
From: Bill Huber < whuber@SADIS01.KELLY.AF.MIL >
I always wondered about the connection between Hitler and the swastika as a Hindu symbol. He never appeared to me as one who went in for studying other cultures. There was a program on the Arts & Entertainment Network Sunday night that I had not seen before about Hitler that mentioned his Catholic upbringing in Austria and the fact he had been a member of the church choir. It showed an interior shot of the church that he sang and over one of the carved saints was an escutcheon shield in which was centered a swastika sitting flat (cross style rather than cocked 45 degrees the way the Nazis later adopted) with pointed arms in a semi-sunwheel style. The earliest Nazi flags had the swastika sitting flat on one arm and was later cocked at the angle everyone is familiar seeing. Anyway, that is the best connection I have seen presented yet as to how Hitler came up with the swastika symbol.
As for the other runic symbols used by the Nazis there were many. The SS in particular used them in an adapted form. Many of the foreign Waffen SS units had collar insignia that was derived from Nordic runic symbols and those symbols also appeared on the SS officer's rings. The tyre rune (upward pointing arrow) was used in the Nazi party to distinguish graduates of the Nazi leadership school. The "wolfsangle" was used by the Dutch SS volunteers. The sunwheel or mobile swastika was used by the 5th SS Panzer Division etc. etc.
The SS used those symbols to try to create a mystic aura of the Viking days with all that blond hair, blue eyed terror of the seas stuff. The SS, being the essence of Germanic manhood identified closely with all that Teutonic Knight ideal.
Cheers, Bill Huber / whuber@sadis01.kelly.af.mil
Isn't the swastika of Roman origin or provenance? There are swastikas in Roman ruins, including those at Conambrigia, near Coimbra, in Portugal.
Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 15:59:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Black Book's editor
From: Stephen Feinstein < feins001@MAROON.TC.UMN.EDU >
Not to beat a dead horse, but the accepted spelling in English is Ilya Ehrenberg, as in the 1985 published book by Ilya Ehrenberg and Konstantin Simonov, IN ONE NEWSPAPER (Sphinx press). I have never seen it spelled Erenberg, even though it may be more phoenetic. Stephen Feinstein
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 09:55:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: NEH $ for translations
National Endowment for the Humanities Translation Grants
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
DIVISION OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS
TRANSLATIONS PROGRAM
The Division of Research Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities welcomes applications for translation projects. Translations grants support individual or collaborative projects to translate into English works that provide insight into the history, literature, philosophy, and artistic achievements of other cultures. The Endowment welcomes print and electronic publications that make available to scholars, students, teachers, and general readers the thought and learning of both ancient and modern civilizations.
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Awards in the Translations Program are made for up to three years and usually range from $30,000 to $150,000, depending on the scope and magnitude of the project.
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List of Awards - Fiscal Year 1995
David L. Blank, University of California, Philodemus Translation
Project (The Aesthetic Works)
Marilyn L. Booth, An Anthology of Writings by the Egyptian
Feminist Mayy Ziyadah
Louise M. Burkhart, SUNY Research Foundation/Albany, The Virgin
Mary in Early Nahuatl Literature: An Anthology
John C. Dagenais, Northwestern University, Mirror or Book of
Women, by Jaume Roig (1460)
Toyin O. Falola, Yoruba Historical Chronicles
T. Griffith Foulk, Rules of Purity for Ch'an Monasteries and
Related Chinese Buddhist Monastic Codes
Daniel H. Garrison, Northwestern University, Annotated
Translation of Vesalius's Fabrica, A Renaissance Text on
Anatomy
Charles T. Gehring, University of the State of New York, The New
Netherland Archives
Howard V. Hong, Saint Olaf College, Kierkegaard's Writings: An
Annotated English Edition
Thomas M. Hunter, Jr., Sekar Iniket: An Anthology of Old Javanese
Literature
Alan S. Kahan, Florida International University, The Old Regime
and the Revolution, Volume II, by Alexis de Tocqueville
Gyula Klima, Notre Dame University, Buridan's Summulae
John L. Kessell, University of New Mexico, The Journals of Don
Diego de Vargas
P. David Kovacs, Loeb Classical Library Euripides
Roderick L. MacFarquhar, Harvard University, The Chinese
Communist Revolution: Mao Zedong's Pre-1949 Works
Shulamit S. Magnus, Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother:
Scenes from the Cultural Life of Russian Jewry in the
Nineteenth Century
Carol S. Maier, Kent State University, The Autobiographical Novel
Delirium and Destiny, by Maria Zambrano (1989)
Cynthia L. Martin, Ilya Kabakov, Memoirs of an Unofficial Russian
Artist
Julie S. Meisami, Nizami Ganjavi's Khusraw and Shirin, A 12thCentury
Persian Romance
Michael J. Mikos, University of Wisconsin, The Mountain of
Beautiful Calliope, An Anthology of Polish Renaissance
Literature
Jan Nattier, Indiana University, The Inquiry of Ugra, An Early
Mahayana Buddhist Scripture
Bruce R. O'Brien, The Latin Legal Literature of Anglo-Norman
England
David T. Roy, University of Chicago, The Plum in the Golden Vase,
A 16th-Century Chinese Novel
John D. Schaeffer, Northern Illinois Universisty, Universal Law,
A Treatise on Natural Law, by Giambattista Vico
Marshall S. Shatz, V. O. Kliuchevsky, Russia under Catherine the
Great, Nine Lectures
Marina A. Tolmacheva, Washington State University, Corpus of
Arabic Sources on Northeast Africa
Selena A. Winsnes, L. F. Romer's A Reliable Report about the
Guinea Coast (1760)
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:41:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Magazine issue
From: Suzanna Hicks < hicks@WEBB.PSYCH.UFL.EDU >
The April/May 1995 issue of "Israel My Glory" (a magazine put out by a Messianic Jewish group called The Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry, in Bellmawr, NJ) is devoted to the Holocaust.
A phone # is 1-800-257-7843.
-Suzanna Hicks
Secretary, Psychology Dept.
University of Florida
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:51:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Weimar and Buchenwald
From: Froma I. Zeitlin < FIZ@PUCC >
Semprun is the author of a 'classic' book on the Holocaust experience, called the Long Voyage (published many years ago in French and available in English, still in print). He uses flashbacks there as the entire work takes place on the trains.
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 10:56:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Zegota and Collective Yad Vashem awards
From: Steve Paulsson < gsp3@LEICESTER.AC.UK >
Tadeusz Gierymski asks:
> Is "Zegota" the only national organization honored with its own > tree in the Avenue of the Just?
There is also a collective tree for the 'whole Danish people', and another for members of the Norwegian underground who helped rescue Jews.
However, so far as I know, Zegota was the only organization in Europe which was formally established by non-Jews specifically for the purpose of helping Jews. At the height of its operation (in the summer of 1944) it was providing financial and other assistance to about 4,000 Jews, mostly in and around Warsaw.
Steve Paulsson tel. (44)116 252 2802 Associate Director fax (44)116 252 3986
Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies
University of Leicester
University Road
Leicester LE1 7RH England E-mail gsp3@le.ac.uk
Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule. (Dickens, Great Expectations)
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 11:41:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Rates of circumcision
From: William Oldson < woldson@GARNET.ACNS.FSU.EDU >
After viewing "Europa, Europa" and "Au Revoir, Les Enfants," my class wanted more background on circumcision being a "fool-proof" way for Nazis to discover Jews in hidding.
Does any one have information on the percentage of gentiles in Europe and North America who were circumcised for the World War II period as well as what is currently the norm in those two area? How was this issue handled by the Wehrmacht for Allied POWs?
THANKS!
William Oldson
Department of History R-126
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2029
Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 13:21:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Symbololgy origins in Nazi Germany
From: Simon Wiesenthal Center Library/Archives < simonwie@CLASS.ORG >
An excellent article on the history of the swastika is:
"Symbol of the Century" by Steven Heller in Print (January/February 1992): 39-47.
I also have several articles in a vertical file on the swastika as a Buddhist symbol.
Paul H. Hamburg
Reference Librarian
Simon Wiesenthal Center Library
9760 W. Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
TEL: 310-553-9036, ext. 292
FAX: 310-277-5558
simonwie@class.org
From: Paul Lawrence Rose < PLR2@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
There is a reecent British book on the origins of the Nazi swastika. Its
author and title elude me, but I recall seeing it well reviewed in the TLS
a few
months ago. PLRose
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 09:45:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Austrian Liberation Commemoration Events in the next days
From: Ortner, Thomas < tortner@USHMM.ORG >
PROJECT GEDENKDIENST INFORMATION
From: Thomas Ortner <tortner@ushmm.org>
Especially media people are calling me (us) to get information on this
topic.
Here is again a list of all major commemoration events for the 50th
anniversary
of the liberation of former concentration camps in Austria, issued by:
May 4, 1995 GUNSKIRCHEN ceremony at the Memorial
11:00 am Welcome Mayor Werner ZIMMERBERGER
Addresses Ms. Shelly SHAPIRO, Holocaust Survivors &
Friends
Education Center, Albany, NY
a representative of the 71st US Infantry
Division
May 4+5, 1995 VIENNA Altes Rathaus (former City Hall), Wipplingerstr.
symposium "The History of Mauthausen" organized
by the Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute for Historical
Social Sciences, Salzburg-Vienna, chaired by
Professor Dr. Gerhard BOTZ,
Dr. Wolfgang NEUGEBAUER, Prof. Karl
STUHLPFARRER.
May 5, 1995 REDL ZIPF ceremony at the Memorial
11:00 am Moderator Mr. Gerhard KRIECHBAUM
Address Mr. Paul LE CAER, representative from France
musical performance - Secondary School
Neukirchen
laying of wreath
May 5, 1995 STEYR ceremony at Memorial at Haagerstrasse
11:00 am Welcome Mr. Karl RAMSMAIR of "Mauthausen Aktiv Steyr"
Addresses Mr. Heinz FISCHER, Head of the Austr.
Parliament
Mr. P. MACARY, representative from France
musical performance; laying of wreath
May 5, 1995 VOECKLABRUCK Wagrein, memorial site
3:00 pm Moderator Mr. Christian HAWLE
Address Prof. Gerhard JAGSCHITZ
choir "Mira";
laying of wreath
May 5, 1995 GUSEN Sports facility Langenstein
6:00 pm Welcome Mayor Erich STEINMUELLER
Address Former inmates of different nationalities
Commem. Speech Ltn. Governor Fritz HOCHMAIR
choir from Ried performs "Golgotha Gusenmarsch
-
Jean Chant des Poire"
May 5, 1995 EBENSEE inside the Memorial (mine)
8:00 pm performance of the "Mozart Requiem" followed
by a torchlight procession
May 6, 1995 HARTHEIM ceremony at the Courtyard
10:00 am Welcome a representative of the municipality of
Alkoven
Addresses Ms. Irmgard ASCHBAUER of the "Austrian Camp
Inmates Association Mauthausen"
Mr. S. CHOUMOFF, representative from France
musical performance of "10 strings and 1 bow"
laying of wreath
May 6, 1995 GUNSKIRCHEN ceremony at the Memorial
10:30 am Welcome Mayor Werner ZIMMERBERGER
Addresses Mr. Georg OBERHAIDINGER, Member of Parliament
a representative of the 71st US Infantry
Division
representative from Hungary
youth program and musical performance
laying of wreath
May 6, 1995 EBENSEE symbolic liberation at former camp gate, near
2:30 pm Memorial, followed by a cortege to cemetery
Welcome Mayor Herwart LOIDL
Commem. Speech Mr. Leon ZELMAN, "Austrian Camp Inmates Assoz.
Mauthausen"
Addresses Captain T. BRENNAN, Mr. I. TIBALDI, Mr. L. ZUK
musical performance, laying of wreath
May 6, 1995 BRAUNAU ceremony at the Memorial - Commemorative Rock
5:00 pm Welcome Mayor Gerhard SKIBA
Addresses Dean Stefan HOFER
Mr. Peter UNTERRAINER, Catholic clery
"Mauthausen Cantata" perform. by choir from B.
laying of wreath
May 6, 1995 MAUTHAUSEN workshops at Secondary School
1:30 pm "Contemporary Resistance against Old Times"
organized by youth organizations from Upper
Austria
7:00 pm Quarry Memorial - "Todesstiege"
choir of Mauthausen "Momento",
songs and texts from the concentration camps;
best entries to composition contest "Momento"
8:00 pm ceremony at the Memorial - roll call grounds
"Music against Facism and Violence" - songs
against intolerance, featuring Timna BRAUER,
Cultural Association of the Austrian Roma,
Geor DANZER, "Wiener Tschuschen Kapelle",
"Bruj",
"Sama Band", and Gerd SCHIFFKOVITZ and his
band;
moderator: Ostbahn Kurti, Andreas GRUBER and
oth.
May 7, 1995 ST. GEORGEN Parish Church - Memorial Service in the
presence
8:30 am of Governor Josef PUEHRINGER and former
Governor
Josef RATZENBOECK
May 7, 1995 GUSEN Memorial site
9:00 am laying of wreath
May 7, 1995 MAUTHAUSEN Memorial site - chapel
9:15 am Mass Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Donato
SQUICCIARINI
Prayers Memorial service of the Jewish Community
Centers
at the Memorial site
10:15 am assemblies at national memorials
10:45 am assembly of delegations of former inmates and
the
diplomatic representatives according to
country
of origin at the "Lagerstrasse"
11:00 am cortege at roll call grounds
11:45 am Introtuction Austrian National Anthem
Welcome Mr. Helmut EDELMAYER, Member of the State
Legislature, "Mauthausen Aktiv Upper Austria"
Addresses Col. Richard R. SEIBEL - US Liberator of
Mauthausen Concentration Camp
Mr. Simon WIESENTHAL
Mauth. Oath Mr. Josef HAMMELMANN, President of
International
Mauthausen Committee
Addresses Mr. Josef PUEHRINGER, Governor of Upper
Austria
Mr. Caspar EINEM, Federal Minister of the
Interior
Commem. Speech Mr. Franz VRANITZKY, Federal Chancellor of the
Republic of Austria
Music Program Mikis THEODORAKIS - "Mauthausen Cantata" - the
composer will conduct the performance of the
original version of his composition with his
orchestra; voice solo: Maria FARANDOURI
May 7, 1995 MAUTHAUSEN Quarry Memorial
7:00 pm George TABORI - "Die Zeit unseres Lebens
zaehlten
wir nach Wochen" - collage of original
documents
from the camp presented by actors from
Vienna's
"Burgtheater"
May 8, 1995 MELK ceremony at Memorial
10:30 am Welcome a representative of the municipality of Melk
Addresses representatives of "Austrian Camp Inmates
Assoc.
Mauthausen"; a representative from France
performances by students;
laying of wreath
May 12, 1995 TERNBERG "Jungscharheim" - former concentr. camp
barracks
10:00 am Welcome Mr. Karl RAMSMAIR of "Mauthausen Aktiv Steyr"
Address Mr. Hans MARSALEK, "Austrian Camp Inmates
Assoz.
Mauthausen"
Commem. Speech Professor Walter WIPPERSBERG; unveiling of
commemorative plaque; musical performance
June 10, 1995 LOIBLPASS on the Austrian side of the border - former
9:00 am "KZ-Lager-Nord"; Memorial service
11:00 am on the Slovenian side - former "KZ-Lager-Sued"
Memorial service
Commem. Speech Mr. Milan KUCAN, President of Slovenia
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 09:50:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Holocaust education effects
From: Dr.Harriet Sepinwall < sepinwal@LIZA.ST-ELIZABETH.EDU >
I am reflecting on the conference held yesterday at my college,
"The Legacy of the Holocaust on New Jersey and American Society".
All of the speakers were excellent. Dr. William Helmreich's
plea that Survivors be treated as people (ordiniary
people at that)
rather than as "Survivors", PAstor Murdoch Macpherson's
apology
for what the Lutheran Church in Germany had permitted--and his
pledge "Never Again", Dr. Laura Winters' presentation of the
dilemma presented by using film in Holocaust education (using
Wiesel's argument that sometimes "silence" is more effective
than "vulgar" depictions...but that sometimes,
silence is not
enought.... "The panel of survivors and liberators who
shared
their memories.... All this--and so much more seemed to have
a profound effect on so many of the attendees. Still, I was
somehow even more affected by the query of one of the survivors
in attendance who , after the conference ended, praised the
quality of the presentations and lauded the sensitivity of the
speakers. She asked me, "Now, after all of the
beautiful words,
what will this result in...what difference will it make?" While
I am committed to Holocaust education and have many reasons to
feel that it can make a difference, I still found myself
reflecting on her questions long after I left yesterday.Indeed,
I find myself still thinking of it today.
Dr. Harriet Lipman Sepinwall
Holocaust Education Resource Center
College of Saint Elizabeth
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960
sepinwal@liza.st-elizabeth.edu
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 09:55:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: CFP Midwest Jewish Studies
From: Gordon Mork < mork@MACE.CC.PURDUE.EDU >
I am putting together a proposal for the Midwest Jewish Studies Conference St. Paul MN Oct 22-23 1995. The topic will be using the Internet in Holocaust education. Anyone out there want to participate? The deadline is 5/31, so we must move quickly. Gordon Mork, Purdue Dept. of History (mork@mace.cc.purdue.edu) or FAX 317-496-1755.
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 10:10:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: use of films in Holocasut classes
From: Sidney Bolkosky < sbolkosk@UMD.UMICH.EDU >
Gary, I have used a BBC film called "Memorandum" which works fairly well
to stimulate discussion. The film chronicles a return to Germany of
Belsen survivors and their children for a memorial in 1964. That occurs
as the verdicts in the Auschwitz trials are being handed down. The
combination of events, the juxtaposition of 1960s Germany with the
memories of the survivors as they walk the haunted landscape of Belsen is
remarkable and moving. It's about an hour long.
I've also had some success showing parts of "Shoah", the "Warsaw Ghetto",
"Shop on Main Street" (which takes place in Houmeni, a town in Slovakia),
"Wanssee" and a few other, lesser known movies. Good luck
Sid Bolkosky
UM-Dearborn
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 10:25:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: War Crimes
From: Myer Wolpert <mwolpert@hookup.net >
Crossposted
>From Canadian Jewish News Thursday 4th May 1995
Headed "War time link to killing squad alleged" By Paul Lungen CJN Staff Reporter
Toronto- One day after Yom Hashoa, federal authorities announced that Waterloo, Ont., resident Helmut Oberlander is facing loss of his citizenship and deportation for his alleged involvement in a mobile Nazi killing squad,
Oberlander, 72, allegedly failed to divulge to Canadian immigration
and
citizenship officials his "membership in the German Sicherheitspolizei und
SD and Einsatzkommando 10A during the second world war and [his]
participation in the executions of civilians" say court documents filed last
week.
Media reports indicate that Oberlander, a former construction
worker,
has
left for the United States. It is unclear when he will return.
According to Hokocast historian Raul Hilberg, Einsatzkomando 10A was
a sub
unit of Einsatzgruppe D, one of four killing units that followed the German
army into the southern Soviet Union in 1941. The units, in conjunction with
local collaborators, engaged in mass shootings of Jewish civilians and
others.
In his book _The destruction of the European Jews,_ Hilberg
chronicles
several incidents involving Einsatzkommando 10A. There were an unspecified
number of killings in the Ukranian town of Kodyma, as well as a July 1941
incident in Balti in which
"the Romanians [allies of the Nazis] were shooting Jews en Masse...
Kommando 10A pitched in by shooting the Jewish leaders in the town."
Jewish leaders applauded federal authorities for commencing denaturalization proceedings against Oberlander, but urged that other cases be launched as well.
"On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death
camps
by the allies, it is particularly appropriate to see the alleged
perpetrators of unspeakable crimes brought to justice," said Milton Harris,
chair of the Canadian Jewish Congress' war crimes committee.
"We owe this all to Canadians, as well as Holocaust survivors in our midst," Harris said.
Pointing to the activities of Einsatzgruppen, Harris said "these
units cut
a murderous swath through Western Poland and the former Soviet Union. We
continue to question why the Government is not proceeding with a criminal
charge instead of deportation to another Country."
B'nai Brith spokesperson Marvin Kurtz pointed to the momentum"
building on
the war crimes dossier. "However [the Oberlander] case... is only the tip of
the iceberg. Not only must these cases proceed expeditiously, the
Government must pick up the pace and bring forward the other nine cases it
is aware of simultaneously and without further delay"
In recent months, the Justice Department's war crimes unit announced
it was
forwarding 12 completed files to Immigration for denaturalization and
deportation. Federal authorities said they would test the legal waters with
four cases.
Jewish groups have objected to that strategy, saying the successful deportation of Jacob Luitjens to Holland has provided sufficient precedent. They urged all 12 cases to be commenced.
"We are in a desperate race against time," said Sol Litman, Canadian
head
of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre. He applauded Justice Minister Alan Rock and
Citizenship and immigration Minister Sergio Marchi for "keeping their
promise to name these men" and he urged a quick hearing.
So far Erichs Tobiass, 84, of Toronto, and Joseph Nemsila, 82, of
Oshawa
have been named as alleged war criminals.
Tobiass has been accused of participating in the mass execution of
Jews in
Nazi occupied Latvia while Nemsilla is accused of being a member of the
Hlinka Guard, the Slovak equivalent of the German SS.
Nemsila was not the first alleged Hlinka Guardnamed by Federal
Authorities.
In 19990 Stephen Reistetter of St. Catherine's, Ont. was charged with
kidnapping 3000 Jews and deporting them to Nazi camps. Charges were dropped
when witnesses died.
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Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 11:15:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Extradition
From: RJPrys@aol.com
A member of our college's online Holocaust Studies Group recently posted the following message:
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JusticeRUs) -- A federal judge ordered
Thursday that an 82-year-old former Nazi SS captain be extradited to
Italy to face charges for taking part in a World War II massacre of 335
civilians.
Judge Leonidas Moldes told the national news agency Diarios y
Noticias that his ruling was based in part on the fact that Erich
Priebke is accused of crimes against humanity that are not subject
to statutes of limitation.
Priebke's attorney, Pedro Bianchi, said he would appeal the
ruling.
Bianchi had argued that there were no legal grounds to extradite
his client since the 15-year statute of limitations for homicide
has expired.
Italy has charged Priebke with crimes against humanity and
homicide.
Priebke has been under house arrest since last June at his home
in Bariloche, 1,100 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. He has lived
there under his own name since immigrating to Argentina in 1948.
He was arrested after publicly admitting his involvement in the
1944 massacre of 335 Italian civilians in the Ardeatine Caves
outside Rome. He maintains he was simply obeying Adolf Hitler's
order that 10 people be executed for each of 32 German soldiers
killed in an ambush in Nazi-occupied Italy.
Priebke said he drew up the list of people to be executed,
including at least 70 Jews, several priests and a 14-year-old boy.
He admitted in a televised interview that he killed one prisoner
himself.
Argentina, which became a safe haven for many Nazis after the
war, has come under mounting pressure from Italy and Jewish groups
to extradite Priebke.
Of more than a dozen extradition requests for war criminals
received by Argentina since 1950, only three have been granted.
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 12:50:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: RJPrys@aol.com
Dr. Sepinwall writes:
>>Still, I was
somehow even more affected by the query of one of the survivors
in attendance who , after the conference ended, praised the
quality of the presentations and lauded the sensitivity of the
speakers. She asked me, "Now, after all of the
beautiful words,
what will this result in...what difference will it make?" While
I am committed to Holocaust education and have many reasons to
feel that it can make a difference, I still found myself
reflecting on her questions long after I left yesterday.Indeed,
I find myself still thinking of it today.<<
As I've mentioned in a previous post, I've become rather demoralized after
trying, in vain, to help the students in my Holocaust seminar understand
what
I see (at this point in my life, anyway) as one of the only tangible and
legitimate lessons that those of us who "weren't there" can learn from the
Holocaust: to wit, the extent to which ordinary people can help to promote
and can even commit acts of extraordinary evil, and the extent to which we
ourselves are ordinary people. The violence is in us; it is internal,
mimetic, and contagious, as Rene Girard, Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther
King,
Ghandi, and so many others have tried to teach us. Still, the bulk of my
students--after reading so much material on the Holocaust, after listening
to
survivors, liberators, and rescuers, after seeing the films, after visiting
Mel Mermelstein's private exhibit--seem either unable or unwilling to
understand the deeply profound and, yes, deeply personal issues at stake
here.
I tried helping them understand these issues by, among other things, explaining that, after initially and mistakenly imagining that the Oklahoma City terrorist(s) must be Middle Eastern and Islamic (that is, "not one of us"), we came to discover that McVeigh is indeed--well, what do you know?--one of "us." Immediately, I went on, "we" began distancing ourselves from him ("Well, he's not *really* one of us; he's actually quite different....") Then, when I further tried explaining how calling for his death engages us in the very violence that we claim to be so appalled at and to want to end--that it helps to support the contention that violence is contagious, mimetic, and internal, and that it helps confirm the notion that all of us participate in acts of violence--I received little more than angry resistance and denial.
Never mind the fact that, at the time, we were studying the work of Milgram and Browning. Never mind the fact that I asked my students to think hard about what they thought Wiesel (I *think* that the following notion is Wiesel's; please correct me if I'm wrong) meant when he said something (and here I'm paraphrasing) that perhaps the worst crime that the Nazis committed against the Jews is that they turned the Jews into killers.
Yes, there are differences among different acts of violence, and there
certainly are differences among us all. No doubt about that. But it is not
for nothing that a survivor whom I recently interviewed wrote a book
entitled
_Are We All Nazis?_
Even if violence can be or *seemingly* can be justified, it is a disease,
and
its use spreads the disease. Violence never works to establish lasting
peace. Socrates knew that. Frankl knew that. Wiesel knows that. Do we?
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 13:20:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Holocaust education effects
From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
HarrietThe
question of what difference will it make is always a difficult one,
especially in light of the ineffectiveness of contemporary American and
European responses to events like Bosnia, Somalia, Haiti, and so forth.
Obviously, both American Presidents and European leaders have waffled on
these subjects, and there is a problem in terms of the evolution of
international human rights and the question of who polices them. There
are special problems now with armies from democratic countries, for
whenever the army has a minor problem, the executive branch feels votes
slipping away.
There are some answers, however, aside from intervention (remember the Germans themselves could not conquer Yugoslavia):
From: Gaston L Schmir < glschm@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU >
> From: William M. Thomas < wmthomas@STRAUSS.UDEL.EDU >
>
> The "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (15.9.35)
> lists the punishment for Jews marrying Germans as _Zuchthaus_ and the
> punishment for "extramartial intercourse" [ausserehelicher Verkehr]
between
> Jews and Germans as _Gefaengnis_ or _Zuchthaus_. My dictionary lists them
> both simply as "prison," but the law is clearly making a distinction
between
> the two. Could anyone explain the difference to me?
>
> William M. Thomas
> wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
> Dept of History, U of Delaware
>
Gaston L. Schmir
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 14:46:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: QUERY: Herschel Grynszpan
From: Jerzy Halbersztadt < HALBERUW@PLEARN >
In 1992 Karol JONCA, Professor of the University of Wroclaw, published an extensive monograph "Noc krysztalowa i casus Herschela Grynszpana"(in Polish). He analyses in detail the Nazi preparations to the court action against Grynszpan after his extradition from France in 1940. One chapter is devoted wholly to the historical evidence and information on the possible survival of the W.W.II by Grynszpan. Jonca reports the afterwar investigations of the Zentralle Stelle ... in Ludwigsburg (A.Rueckerl), research of F.Kaul, L.Steinberg, R.Thalmann, E.Feinermann, R.Hilberg and others. The opinions are contradictory but there is no evidence that Grynszpan survived the war (except the press sensations). The family of Grynszpan declared several times the lack of contact with him after the war. The last interview given by his family was published in "Jerusalem Post" on 12 November 1988.
Jerzy Halbersztadt, University of Warsaw
and the Director of the Polish Program
of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
01-682 Warszawa, Kiwerska 16/8, Poland
tel/fax (+48 22) 33-79-21
e-mail: halberuw@plearn.edu.pl
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 14:46:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Re: Recompensation for Holocaust Survivors in Poland
From: Jerzy Halbersztadt < HALBERUW@PLEARN >
Till now, I have not contributed in the discussion on the recompensation for Holocaust Survivors in Eastern Europe. It is my feeling that this matter outstrips partially the mission of the Holocaus-L. But, the contribution of Steve Paulsson of 26 April (who's postings I generally admire) needs some corrections.
It is not true that "POLAND ENACTED A LAW LIKE THIS (recompensation for survivors - J.H.) SEVERAL YEARS AGO. WITHOUT MENTIONING JEWS, THE LAW PROVIDES FOR THE RETURN OF PROPERTY CONFISCATED BY THE COMMUNISTS OR NAZIS TO ITS PRE-WAR OWNERS".
Poland did not even start to solve the problem of former owners (contrary to Czech Republic or Hungary) independently whether they are of Polish, Jewish or other nationalities. The reasons are easy to listen. There is no other country where this question would be so complicated and so economically and politically dangerous. Changes of the territory of the Polish state between 1939 and 1945 and the modernisation of the country after 1945 resulted in that 1/2 of Poles started to live in new places allotted by the Polish administration (generally with breaking of standard property rights). The pre-war properties (buildings, apartments, factories, etc.) were mostly destroyed and rebuilt after the war using the state, communal or private (different than owner's) funds.
Let's take an artificial example, but not far from the reality. A small Jewish factory given by Nazis to a German (let's call him Schindler) had been substantially destroyed in the final stage of war. The Jewish owners disappeared in Holocaust, but their relatives survived. They decided to leave Poland as soon as possible. In 1946 (not having even the proper inheritance documentation) they felt forced to sell the remnants of the factory to a Pole for a ridiculous, symbolic price. New owner started to rebuild the factory and in two years he employed 42 workers. In 1948 the factory was been confiscated by the Communists. They confiscated a few other real estates near to factory, too. Twenty years later the factory was been modernised and enlarged to a quite impressive business with hundreds of employees, though using outdated technology. Now, the relatives of former Jewish owners claim the recompensation, because they feel brutally deprived of the family inheritance. The Polish owner who rebuilt the factory after the war denounces the confiscation as an act of a communist lawlessness and demands the return of his property. Few hundred workers of the factory led by eloquent activists of "Solidarity" protest against the idea to give the factory ("rebuilt and modernised with our hands") to "exploiters" and demand to give it to the employees' ownership company. All these solutions are being contested by the Polish Ministry of the Ownership Transformation on a ground that they do not give the inflow of a new capital that is necessary for modernisation of the factory and making it competitive in a new open market. The ministry prefers to sell the factory to one of the foreign or new Polish companies or to make a joint-venture with one of them. It may result in that all the solutions listed above will block each other and the factory will simply go bankrupt.
The result of this tangle of contradictory interests caused that all the governments born from the "Solidarity" after 1989 and two subsequent post-communist governments did not find necessary courage even to try to solve this matter.
In the current situation only a past VIOLATION of law valid in Poland (it means mostly bills from the communist time, still) gives the chance to go to the justice court and to win a return of the property. In our example a Pole whom the communists had confiscated the factory can expect the positive verdict. The communist "Bill of Nationalisation" of 1946 allowed confiscation of factories above 50 employees, but after 1947 many smaller businesses were "nationalised". Now, these enterprises could be returned only if they have not been substantially changed later (means they are ruins, now) and there are no other claims. Otherwise, the case has to wait until the expected "Bill of Reprivatisation (or Recompensation)" will be passed by the Parliament.
As the property of houses is concerned the situation is even more complicated, because they are full of inhabitants settled in by the communist administration conformable to the past and actual laws and regulations. These inhabitants are protected by law. Thus, the only result of getting back a house means mostly the obligation to cover the maintenance costs without the chance to get any profits in next years.
The former Jewish property confiscated by Nazis was mostly nationalised after the war as "post German property (mienie poniemieckie)" or "abandoned property". Now, it is very difficult to prove Jewish claims (Steve Paulsson presented the most important reasons).
Passing of "Bill of Reprivatisation (or Recompensation)" was simply impossible (I my humble opinion) during first years after communism due to unstable economic situation and a lack of funds for recompensations. Now, a discussion of experts, governmental officials and politicians was initiated. It is difficult to foresee the results. It seems that parties of the left that dominate now are not ready to accept the return of property in kind. The decision to give special bonds (changeable into the shares of privatised state enterprises) to individuals who claim property is most probable. It is almost certain that the Jewish claims will be regulated in the same manner as claims of Poles and others. No special treatment of Jews can be expected when hundreds of thousand (may be even millions) of Poles did not receive the recompensation for their losses during the war and under the communism for the forced labour in Germany and in Soviet Union and for other Nazi or Soviet crimes (Germany never acknowledged the claims of Poles, contrary to Jews). The size of possible claims is so enormous that recompensation other than symbolic can hardly be expected. There is a tendency to limit the right of claim only to Polish citizens.
The separate question is the return of property of religious organisations. The Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches were granted special bills that allow them to get their former property. In the nearest future the similar bills should be granted to the Protestant Churches and to the Union of Jewish Religious Communities. The latter should get back synagogues, cemeteries, buildings of religious schools, buildings of religious communities, etc. The question of property of former Jewish organisations, parties, etc. is discussed, too. Probably, this property could be given to a foundation that will care for the monuments of Jewish history and culture in Poland.
Jerzy Halbersztadt
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 16:55:00 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: "Mott, Jim" <jimmott@spss.com> Subject: Units assigned to death camp duty
From: Dr. Watson Holloway < holloway@S1500.BC.PEACHNET.EDU >
Could someone point out a good source or post information regarding German miliatry units that where assigned to death camp duty: how they were chosen, what ranks of officers and enlisted men were responsible for what tasks, and so forth?
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:42:11 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: myers@einstein.susqu.edu Subject: Query: grants
I am posting the following on behalf of a non-computerized colleague:
A Holocaust resource center is currently being created at Susquehanna University. The center is to be a multidisciplinary and collaborative effort to support teaching the Holocaust both at the university and in the area public schools. We have some funding for materials and speakers, but are looking for more to acquire larger specialty collections and newer materials (as they become available). The goal is to create not just a Holocaust center, but to expand it to also include other genocidal experiences. If you are interested in funding this project, or know someone who might be able to help, please contact:
Dr. Jack Longaker, Dept. of History, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 17870.
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:43:31 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: QUERY: Zuchthaus and Gefaengnis
In-Reply-To: <199505051905.OAA41022@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
Hans Globke was in charge of making sense of the Nuremberg Law. He died
only, I think, in 1965, after serving in the Adenauer Government.
Something on his life should have something about his bureaucratic views
of the law of sept. l5. Our former chairman, Ed Peterson, Prof. of German
History, interviewed Globke many years ago. You might want to contact him
to see if he has notes on this:
E.N.Peterson@uwrf.edu
Stephen Feinstein
> From: Gaston L Schmir < glschm@MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU >
>
>
> > From: William M. Thomas < wmthomas@STRAUSS.UDEL.EDU >
> >
> > The "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor" (15.9.35)
> > lists the punishment for Jews marrying Germans as _Zuchthaus_ and the
> > punishment for "extramartial intercourse" [ausserehelicher Verkehr]
> between
> > Jews and Germans as _Gefaengnis_ or _Zuchthaus_. My dictionary lists them
> > both simply as "prison," but the law is clearly making a distinction
> between
> > the two. Could anyone explain the difference to me?
> >
> > William M. Thomas
> > wmthomas@strauss.udel.edu
> > Dept of History, U of Delaware
> >
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> >
> My dictionary also lists both words as "prison" but adds, for Zuchthaus,
> "for
> capital offenders" and specifies "penitentiary" in U.S. usage.
>
> Gaston L. Schmir
>
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:45:21 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001@maroon.tc.umn.edu> Subject: Re: Israeli Law declaring Yom HaShoah
In-Reply-To: <199505052205.RAA42933@tigger.cc.uic.edu>
Does anyone have the exact text of the Israeli law establishing Yom
HaShoah. I recall it starts with a story of a grandfather and child
walking and the child asks "where is the State." The reply is something
like "when you find a grave yard, the state is nearby."
Any help?
Stephen Feinstein
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:52:54 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: Jim Mott <U15607@UICVM.BITNET> Subject: Re: Holocaust Education Effects
From: RJPrys@aol.com
In his thought-provoking post, Stephen Feinstein writes, among other things:
>>So what now? we have to focus of what Hilberg talks about in his book PERPETRATORS, VICTIMS AND ONLOOKERS and Brownings ORDINARY MEN, as well as Pearl and Sam Oliner's THE ALTRUISTIC PERSONALITY to figure out how we avoid the faceless, depersonalized type of carrying out of orders which occured in Nazi Germany when ordinary people became the killers and ethical/religious systems were stripped of their viability.<<
I would like to highlight one part of this excerpt from Stephen's post: "to
figure
out how we avoid the faceless, depersonalized type of carrying out of
orders which occured in Nazi Germany when ordinary people became the
killers."
In his excellent book on Reserve Police Battalion 101, Browning makes it quite clear that a number of the "actions" involved ordinary men coming face to face with their victims, walking them to the execution sites, talking with them during this journey to murder, and so on. Faceless? Hardly. Personal, direct contact with their victims? Quite clearly. Pulled the trigger anyway?
Richard Prystowsky (RJPrys@aol.com)
School of Humanities and Languages
Irvine Valley College
5500 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92720
Phone: 714-559-3206
Fax: 714-559-3270
One thing that we have found as a benefit of Holocaust education at our school, with 9th graders, is that it increases their capacity for moral thinking, partly by providing them with a moral vocabulary so that they can conceive of their relations with others differently. We have not necessarily found a corresponding change in behavior. One of our former students was tossed from his high school, in part, for being involved in some racist incidents.
Steve Cohen
Dear Dr. Sepinwall,
You ask an interesting question. I see it in two ways: are you speaking about Jews, about me and my son... about the possibility of if it happening to us again? This is one side of the question. If you are speaking about Pol Pot or Stalin or Edi Amin, Bosnia, The Cultural Revolution, now Ruanda and how many more, then yes it has happened. That is, if one assumes that the need to kill masses of people is at the root of the problem. Fakenheim once asked why did they do it (speaking of the Nazis et al). Do we just ascribe it to evil, as if that finally were that? Or do we start looking for the root causes in mankind.
And if we continue to define what happened to us as the only Holocaust, how do we relate to the other incidents of mass destruction? I think we need to demystify Holocaust, give it a small h: holocaust. It needs to be seen as a special form of genocide. Perhaps the failure of the Holocaust community (survivors, historians, policemen, poets, film makers, dramatists etc) to demystify is one of the reasons your survivor was needing to just be treated as a normal person. Perhaps its time to call it holocaust with a small h. You, know, as I write this, I'm afraid, afraid that some survivors will be offended, hurt and will call me a traitor, a revisionist... a goy. After all I wasn't there.
Best,
Alan Jacobs
Independent scholar, writer, psychotherapist
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 15:55:29 CDT Reply-To: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> Sender: H-Net History of the Holocaust List <HOLOCAUS@UICVM.BITNET> From: andrew s bergerson <asb2@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies 1995
The Student Coordinating Committee,
together with the Goethe-Institut of Chicago,
are pleased to announce the Fourth Annual
Midwest Graduate Seminar in German Studies
to take place from
the 18th to the 20th of May, 1995
at
the Goethe-Institut of Chicago
410 N. Michigan Ave, Ste. 230
Chicago, IL 60611
At this student-run conference, 75 papers of original research will be presented by graduate students from 12 academic departments at 16 different universities. The roundtables are organized by interdisciplinary themes which focus on specific issues within the culture, history, language, politics and society of Central Europe. A complete listing of presentations, presenters and other activities is included here.
We gladly welcome both professional and non-academic guests to our panel discussions and activities. For more information or a hard copy of the program, please contact Andrew S. Bergerson through the following media:
asb2@midway.uchicago.edu -email
312/684 8078 - voice mail
5456 S. Blackstone Ave, Chicago Il 60615 - snail mail
312/684 5719 - personal telephone
or call the Goethe-Institut of Chicago at
312/ 329 0915 - tel
312/ 329 2487 - fax
Thursday, May 18, 1995
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Registration
Welcoming Remarks:
MGSGS Coordinating Committee
Angela Greiner, Goethe-Institute/Chicago
Keynote Address:
"Inhibited Rapprochement and Bent Identity: The Year 1947
in German Literary History"
Gunter Holtz, Freie Universitat Berlin
Wine and Cheese Reception
Friday, May 19, 1995
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Registration, Introductory Remarks,
Coffee and Bagels!!!!
9:00 - 12:00 a.m. MORNING SESSION
PANEL 1: SEXUALITY AND THE BODY (Part I) Auditorium Moderator: Mila Ganeva, University of Chicago
Jeff Gorder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The Face of the Disenfranchised: The Unlinking of Goethe's Reality Respondent: Teresa Sanislo
Gretchen Junker, University of Chicago
Why Woman Dances
Respondent: Susan Funkenstein
Teresa Sanislo, University of Michigan
Gymnastics for the Youth: Physical Education, Civility, Gender and
Educational Reform in Late Eighteenth Century Germany
Respondent: Jeff Gorder
Mike Sosulski, University of Chicago
Trained Minds, Disciplined Bodies: Konrad Ekhof and the Reform of the
German Actor
Respondent: Stephen Mark Carey
PANEL 2: DE/POLITICIZING
Room 1 Moderator: Mike Spicka, Ohio State University
Raymond Brod, University of Illinois - Chicago
The Meaning of Mayerling
Respondent: Bryan Machin
David Ellis, University of Chicago
A Foot in Each Kingdom: Political Theology and the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung
Respondent: Alan Krinsky
Alan Krinsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Was Nazism a Secular Religion?
Respondent: Langeheine
Volker Langeheine, Michigan State University Political Culture in Reunited Germany: Parties and Elections Respondent: David Ellis
Bryan Machin, Michigan State University Daily Life Politics and Victimization in Eastern Germany 1933-93: Remembering the Third Reich and the GDR after the Wende Respondent: Raymond Brod
PANEL 3: NARRATION AND MEMORY (Part 1)
Room 2 Moderator: Maria Snyder, Washington University
Joe Perry, University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign Mastering the (Christmas) Past: Manhood Memory and the German "War Christmas." Respondent: Melissa Feinberg
Brian Smith, Michigan State University
Conquering Reality: Narrative Perspective and its Function in Brigitte
Reimann's Franziska Linkerhand
Respondent: Leonard Gadzekpo
Maria Snyder, Washington University
The Spaces of Remembrance: Herder and German Collective Memory
Respondent: Joanna Dunn
Jeremy Straughn, University of Chicago
To Master the Past: Narrative Strategies of Identity in the Life Stories of
Former East Germans
Respondent: Lambro Bourdimos
K. Julia Karolle, University of Wisconsin-Madison Im Wort/Sinn: An Analytical Approach to 'Migrantenliteratur' in the FRG Respondent: To Be Announced
PANEL 4: GERMANY FACES EAST
Library Moderator: Kevin Wood, Washington University
Jan Behrends, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Heiner Muller's View of Russia
Respondent: David Pickus
Jim Bjork, University of Chicago
Become What You Are: Constructions of Nationality in the Upper Silesian
Plebiscite 1919-21
Respondent: David Cameron
David Cameron, University of Minnesota
Russia's Place in the Economic Diplomacy of the Weimar Republic
Respondent: James Bjork
David Pickus, University of Chicago
Joachim Christoph Friedrich Schulz and the Vice of Poland
Respondent: Jan Behrends
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH
1:00 - 4:30 p.m. AFTERNOON SESSION
PANEL 5: SEXUALITY AND THE BODY (Part II)
Audiorium Moderator: Mila Ganeva, University of Chicago
Stephen Carey, Washington University
Weder Lust noch Freud: Rape as Gender Marker in Grimmelshausen's
Landstoertzerin Courasche
Respondent: Mike Sosulski
Todd Ettelson, University of Michigan
Nazi Constructions of Homosexuality and The "Night of the Long Knives"
Respondent: Gretchen Hansen Junker
Susan Funkenstein, University of Wisconsin-Madison Deconstructing the Butt: Reassessing Josephine Baker's Performances in Berlin Respondent: Todd Ettelson
PANEL 6: HISTORY AND TEMPORALITY
Room 1 Moderator: Ebba Christina Luchterhand,
University of Kansas
Judith Leeb, University of Chicago
Cynical Times in Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (video)
Respondent: Kevin Wood
Stewart Slafter, University of Chicago
The Thirty Years' War and the Comet of 1618
Respondent: David Goldberg, University of Michigan
Kevin Wood, Washington University
Breaking the Speed Habit: Elusive Binary Systems in Sten Nadonys Die
Entdeckung der Langsamkeit
Respondent: Judith Leeb
Greg Fried, University of Chicago
Perptual Peace and Perceptual Polemos: Kant and Heidegger on the
Teleology of Human Freedom
Respondent: Ebba-Christine Luchterhand, University of Kansas
PANEL 7: NARRATION AND MEMORY (Part II)
Room 2 Moderator: Maria Snyder, Washington University
Leonard Kodzo Gadzekpo, Bowling Green State University Aesthetic Affinity in Contemporary German Poetry and Painting Respondent: Brian Smith
Lambro Bourodimos, University of Kansas "Gelebte Literatur in der Literatur" in Wielands Don Sylvio (1764) and his Prose Fairy-tale Die Entzauberung (1805) Respondent: Jeremy Straughn
Joanna Dunn, University of Chicago
Zahlen and Erzahlen in Johannes Bobrowski's Levins Muhle
Respondent: Maria Snyder
Melissa Feinberg, University of Chicago Nelze Zapominout: The Czechoslovak Communist Party and the (Re)making of Lidice Respondent: Joe Perry
PANEL 8: VALUES AND TASTES
Library Moderator: Raymond Brod, University Illinois/Chicago
Anne Eaton, University of Chicago
"False" Taste and the Problem of Autonomy in Kant's Critique of Judgment
Respondent: Jennifer Jenkins
Gary Finder, University of Chicago
Education through Punishment: Opposition to Juvenile Justice Reform in
Wilhelmine Germany
Respondent: Anne Grevstad
Anne Grevstad, University of Wisconsin-Madison Photomontage, Stage Sets, and the Proletarian Mother: John Heartfield's Committment to a Confrontational Didactic Art Respondent: Stephen Grollman
Stephen Grollman, Washington University Studies in Egoism and Altruism: Der Untertan and Madame Legros Respondent: Gary Finder
Jennifer Jenkins, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The 'Kitsch Collections': Cultural Reform , National Culture, and the
German Middle Class in 1900
Respondent: Anne Eaton
FRIDAY EVENING
8:00 p.m. At the Film Center, The School of the Art Institute
Columbus Drive at Jackson Boulevard
Film : PARACELSUS, from the film series
"THE MINISTRY OF ILLUSION: GERMAN FILM 1933-1945"
($5 Admission Fee)
Saturday, May 20, 1995
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Coffee and Bagels!!!!!
9:00 - 12:00 a.m. MORNING SESSION
PANEL 9: SPACE AND ENVIRONMENT
Auditorium Moderator: Glenn Penny, University of Illinois-Urbana
Andrew Donson , University of Mi