Global Perspectives on the Holocaust: History, Identity and Legacy expands coverage of the Holocaust from the traditional focus upon Europe to a worldwide and interdisciplinary perspective. Articles by historians, political scientists, educators, and geographers, as well as scholars in religious studies, international relations, art history, film and literature are included in this volume. Contributors include Gerhard L. Weinberg, Alexandra Zapruder, and Paul Bartrop, as well as scholars from five continents. The “History” section features new scholarship on the Holocaust in Scandinavia; the plight of Jews in Shanghai; deportations and resistance in Budapest; the sponsorship of refugees by Jews in Alabama; local collaboration in Galicia; and the effect of resistance on the rates of Jewish victimization in various countries. The “Identity” section examines the German treatment of homosexual men during the Third Reich, the suffering of German prisoners in Auschwitz, and the role of eugenics in Romanian national identity, as well as the sexual activities between soldiers’ wives and prisoners of war or other forbidden partners during the war. The “Legacy” section considers recent French films as sites of memory; the Stumbling Stones memorial project in Germany; the use of non-violent strategies in the fight against human rights abuses and genocide; the use of oral testimony in Holocaust museums; Holocaust memorial practices in Western Ukraine; and methods to contextualize the Holocaust and other examples of genocide in education curricula.
